Mela (Pomponius) Cosmographia, sive de situ orbis,second edition, 3 blanks present as called for, contemporary ms. marginalia including orbis terrarum, last line on d7 added by stamp, first 2 ff. somewhat stained and with neat marginal repairs, minor repair at extreme upper hinge of quires e and f, very small wormhole up to c5 with occasional minor loss to character, 18th century ownership inscriptions on preliminary blank, one partly deleted, contemporary vellum, [BMC V 261; Goff M-448], small 4to, [Venice, Printer of Pomponius Mela, 1477]. This large copy preserves in its margins interesting annotations by an early owner well versed in geography. Amongst his annotations is a correction to the text and a manuscript circular world map which attemps to reconcile the T-O and zonal forms; it is drawn to accompany Mela's summary description of the earth and the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. The important manuscript T-O map, although derived from the woodcut printed on the Isidoro di Siviglia (1472), is curiously oriented South-North. No similar maps with this orientation are present in the bibliographies.

***Extremely rare second edition, variant without date or place of printing, and one of only four books printed at this eponymous press. Mela's cosmographical text constitutes the earliest Latin work on geography and includes the oldest geographical description of the earth..