Observations ad Pomponium Melam De situ orbis ipse Mela longè quam antehac emendatior praemittitur.
Hagae-Comitis, apud Adrianum Vlacq, 1658.
2 parts bound in a volume
4to (6.5 by 8.5")
Original vellum binding, manuscript title on the spine.
Some damages to vellum on the lower and right margins of the back cover.
Otherwise very good condition.
[4], 65, [1 bl.], [24];
[1 (title)], [1 bl.], 315, [21] pp.
Some woodcut diagrams in the text.
Numerous passages highlighted in ink and old annotations.
Text in Latin.
Classic geography from this period. 'A copious commentary on Mela's observations, with narratives digressing quite far away from Mela's text. The comments.are about five times as long as the original text.'.a turning point in his career.

Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died c. AD 45.
His short work (De situ orbis libri III.) remained in use nearly to the year 1500. It occupies less than one hundred pages of ordinary print, and is described by the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) as "dry in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and occasionally relieved by pleasing word-pictures."Except for the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis (where Mela is cited as an important authority), the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in Classical Latin.



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