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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A magical mystery tour of the ancient world by the Roman author Solinus - the Michael Palin of antiquity. The first modern English language translation, with introduction and notes. Solinus takes the reader on a tour of the known world of his time (early third century AD) and on the way we meet unicorns, men 'transformed into wolves', deer which swallow snakes after 'dragging them out of their lairs' by the force of their breath, serpents with four horns, hyaenas which 'imitate the sound of people vomiting', men without noses and faces which are entirely flat, and with no mouths so that they eat through 'small holes by way of oaten stalks'. There are also cannibals and 'the Pamphagi, who eat everything which is chewable, and anything which happens to be born'. In Phrygia there is an animal called the bonacus: 'When it turns to flee, it discharges dung with a quick evacuation of its stomach, for a length of three acres. The heat of the dung burns whatever it touches. Thus it wards off pursuers with its noxious secretion.' In the midst of all this menagerie of strange people and stranger creatures, we are treated to careful descriptions of all the foreign lands and learn titbits such as this: 'India gives pearls; so do the shores of Britannia. The divine Julius [Caesar] wished it to be understood by an adjacent description that the breastplate he dedicated in the temple of his ancestress Venus was made from British pearls.'.…

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Condizione: Good. - Small quarto [8-1/2 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide], softcover, printed self-wraps. 32 pages. The paper has becom somewhat limp. The title page is foxed with its edges chipped & there is foxing throughout. The page corners are creased and/or chipped. Good. A dissertation in Latin by seventeenth-century philologist Daniel Wilhelm Moller [1672-1712], professor of history and metaphysics at the university in Altdorf, Switzerland. The subject of this work is Gaius Julius Solinus, a fourth-century or possibly third-century Latin grammarian and compiler and author of "De mirabilibus mundi" ["The wonders of the world"], also known as "Collectanea rerum memorabilium" and "Polyhistor".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First. First Aldine edition. Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri (the heirs of Aldus Manutius the Elder and Andrea Torresano the Elder); October 1518. Octavo (6" x 3 13/16", 152mm x 97mm). [Full collation available.] Bound in contemporary Venetian paneled calf with two pairs of silk ties. With four knotted "Greek style" tools in the center panel. On the spine, three raised bands. Ink manuscript to the fore-edge of the text-block: "POMP. MELA. ET SOLINVS." Small losses along the lower edge, with scuffs and the odd spot of soiling. The corners bumped and the ties perished. The text-block remarkably fresh, with occasional sidelining in ink. A reference in ink manuscript to Pliny in the margin of fol. 119r. Collated complete (including both the q8 and G3 blanks) against the register and UCLA. Ex-libris of Emilio Pittaluga to the title-page, completed in ink manuscript "ottimo esemplare." Bookplate of T. Kimball Brooker laid in. Pomponius Mela (d. AD 45) and Caius (Gaius) Julius Solinus (fl. ca. AD 225) together were the twin stars of Roman (i.e., Latin) ancient geography through the medieval period, and far more influential than Ptolemy, whose Geographical Guidance was largely inaccessible to Continental scholars before it was translated into Latin in 1406. A frequent source of Pliny (whose Historia naturalis has geographical components but belongs properly to a different genre), Mela's De situ orbis bridges the gap between the Greek geographers (Eratosthenes, Ptolemy) and his successors. Solinus wrote his De mirabilibus mundi (On the wonders of the world) -- also called the Polyhistor (very learned), as here -- in the first half of the third century of the current era. The works of Mela and Solinus fill a little more than half the volume (through fol. 127). Four shorter works follow, making the volume a useful collection of geographical works. The first is the Itinerarium -- itinerary -- carried out under Emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 86-161), which lists in order the places along a road as they stretched across the Roman Empire. Vibius Sequester (ca. AD 400) provides a literary parallel; conventionally titled De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, paludibus, montibus, gentibus per litteras (fol. 191ff.) it gathers the place-names mentioned in Classical literature -- particularly Vergil and Ovid. Publius Victor is a confected Classical author, made to provide authorship for a XVc (first published 1505) treatise De regionibus urbis Romae liber (fol. 201ff.), which describes the neighborhoods (regiones) of ancient Rome. The volume finishes with the poem of Dionysius Periegetes (sometimes called, as here, Dionysius Afer -- born as he was in Libya in perhaps the AD IIc), a member of the "Second Sophistic," composed in Greek and translated by Priscian into Latin as De orbis situ (fol. 215ff.). These final treatises speak particularly to the lineage of the work through the press of Aldus Manutius (Aldo Manuzio, ca. 1450-1515), the great Venetian humanist-printer whom we have largely to thank for the dissemination of texts in small formats. Thomas Kimball Brooker (Kim, b. 1939) is an American industrialist with a life-long scholarly interest in books. To wit, his Harvard Business School Master's thesis was titled Rare Books as a Hedge against Devaluation and Inflation; he went on to get an MA in Art History and a PhD, both from the University of Chicago. He is the most significant collector -- certainly among the living, perhaps ever, or at the least on par with the likes of J.P. Morgan -- of early printed books, with a particular focus on Aldus Manutius. His collection is being dispersed by Sotheby's in a series of eight auctions, the Bibliotheca Brookeriana, from 2023 into 2026 (to include his the formidable reference library). The present volume was lot 245 in part II (the Aldine Collection D-M) 18 October 2024 in New York. Adams M 1053; Edit16 46864; Renouard, Alde 83/6; UCLA 171; USTC 841939.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. SECOND GIUNTA EDITION (1st 1519). A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings. A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and Gaius Julius Solinus. Shorter texts include a catalogue of the regions within the city of Rome, "De regionibus urbis Romae" by "Publius Victor". The work is possibly a literary forgery of the 15th century, presented as the work of a newly-discovered author. The name was coined by Pomponius Leto of the Roman Academy. The volume was edited by Antonio Francino (1480- after 1537), a scholar of great talent, who taught in the households of important Florentines, and who produced, starting in 1517, numerous editions of Greek and Latin authors for the Giunta firm. Francino's opening letter in this volume is addressed to the twenty-year old Pietro Vettori, who would himself become a philologist of great renown. Pomponius Mela's Description of the World: "A generation earlier than the work of the natural historian Pliny, under the reign of Claudius or Caligula, we find the first Latin author whom, to the best of our knowledge, we can call a pure geographer and whose work has come down to us complete. This is Pomponius Mela, a Spaniard from Tingentera, near Gibraltar, whose Chronographia, "Description of Places" in three books, is preserved. The Chronographia describes the world, taking the Mediterranean as its basic point of reference. It proceeds counterclockwise from the Strait of Gibraltar, whither it returns at the end of the description."(Conte) "After a short prooemium, in which he dwells upon the importance and difficulties of his undertaking, he proceeds to define the cardinal points, and to explain the division of the world into two hemispheres and five zones. The northern hemisphere is that portion of the Earth which is known, and is separated by the impassable torrid zone from the southern hemisphere, which is altogether unknown, and is the abode of the Antichthones. The northern, known hemisphere is completely surrounded by the ocean, which communicates with the four great seas: one on the north, the Caspian; two on the south, the Persian and the Arabian; and one in the west, The Mediterranean, with its subdivisions. Next follows a description of the three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa, and an enumeration of its inhabitants. These preliminaries being discussed, the author enters upon more minute details, and makes a complete circuit of the known world. "Thus commencing at the straits of Hercules with Mauritania, he passes on in regular order to Numidia, Africa Proper, the Cyrenaica, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Phoenicia, Cilicia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Caria, Ionia, Aeolis, Bithynia, Paphlagonia, the Asiatic nations on the Euxine and the Palus Maeotis, European Scythia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, the Peloponinesus, Epirus, Illyricum, Italy from the head of the Adriatic round by Magna Graecia to the Ligurian Gulf, Gallia Narbonnensis, and the eastern coast of Spain. (Hispaniae ora citerior.) The tour of the Mediterranean being now completed, a chapter is devoted to its islands. Passing beyond the Straits, we stretch along the western coast of Spain (Hispaniae ora exterior), the western coast of Gaul (Galliae ora exterior), the islands of the Northern Ocean, Germany, Sarmatia, the shores of the Caspian, the Eastern Ocean and India, the Mare Rubrum and its two gulfs, the Persian and Arabian, Aethiopia, and those portions of Aethiop a and Mauritania bordering upon the Atlantic, which brings him round to the point from which he started. It will be seen from the above sketch that the existence of the northern countries of Europe and of the northern and eastern countries of Asia were unknown, it being supposed that these regions formed part of the ocean, which, in like manner, was supposed to oc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. First. THE PADUA--HUTH--MENDEL--LILLY COPY. First edition. Folio in 6s (12" x 8 1/8", 305mm x 207mm). [Full collation available.] With a folding woodcut world map by Petrus Apianus. Bound by Bedford (signed at the upper edge of the verso of the first free end-paper) in mirror calf. On the boards, a triple gilt fillet border. On the spine, six raised bands with a dashed gilt roll. Panels gilt. Author and title gilt to brown morocco in the second panel, imprint gilt to brown morocco in the third. Gilt strokes to the head- and tail-pieces. Double gilt fillets to the edges of the boards. Gilt inside dentelle. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text-block gilt. Presented in a deep brown pull-off case made by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Evidently cleaned and pressed. Lacking final blank (cc4). Some bumping to the fore-corners, with the front hinge starting. A little foxing to the map. Superb margins all-round. With the bookplates of Huth and of Mendel on the front paste-down. Inkstamp of the "PUBBLICA LIBRERIA DI PAD." to the title-page. Deaccession inkstamp of the Lilly Library at Indiana University, dated in pencil "2 Nov 1962" to the blank following the text's colophon (F4v). Gaius Julius Solinus wrote his treatise De mirabilibus mundi (On the wonders of the world) -- also called the Polyhistor ("very learned"), as here -- in the first half of the third century of the current era. Although it draws on the work of Pliny and Pomponius Mela, it sets its observations on customs and peoples in a firmer chorographical-cartographical framework. Its editio princeps (1473) was before the discovery of the New World, and so its awareness of the world was surpassed only east- and southward. Over time, the Polyhistor along with the work of Pomponius Mela and Ptolemy became the framework for modern atlases. The present work is not (only) the Polyhistor but the commentary (enarrationes) of Johannes Camers, the Franciscan (Friar Minor, per the title) humanist. Laid out in the traditional manner of a manuscript commentary, the text unfurls from the spine and is ringed on three sides by notes on the text. The text and commentary are followed by Camers's index of locations, which is indeed "perco[m]modus Studiosis," very convenient for scholars. The map of Peter Apian (Petrus Apianus) had long been thought the earliest appearance of "America" -- i.e., South America -- on a map, but it has been antedated by Waldseemüller's 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia, of which only one copy survives (in the Library of Congress; Waldseemüller also made gores for a globe in the same year, which survive in a few more instances). It is nevertheless a tremendously important account of westward-expanding knowledge of the world. Our copy's first possessor to leave a mark was the University of Padua (styled the "pubblica libreria" after the biblioteca Marciana (libreria pubblica di San Marco in Venice)), whose library was established in 1629 -- the oldest Italian university library. Its point of exit from that collection is unclear, but its next marked possessor is Henry (or his son Alfred Henry) Huth, a bibliophile father-and-son the likes of which have never again been seen. Sold by Sotheby's 1911-1920 in nine parts, the library altogether made £350,000 ($900,000 according to the New York Times). The present item is lot 6938 (part 7, 8 July 1918). Quaritch, the nonpareil London bookseller, bought the volume and sold it to Bernardo Mendel (1895-1967). Mendel was a decorated Viennese WWI soldier who, luckily, moved to Colombia in 1928 and remained there until 1952. He began collecting material principally related to the Americas, and eventually ran the Harper bookshop in New York. His collection eventually was given to the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana at Bloomington beginning in 1961, and it is from this collection that the present item was released as a duplicate. Adams S-1391; Church 45; JCB 1:77; Sabin 86390; Shirley 45 (world map). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dionysii Alex. Et Pomp. Melae Situs Orbis Descriptio, Aethici Cosmographia. C.I. Solini Polyhistor. In Dionysii Poematium Commentariii Eusthathii: Interpretatio Eiusdem Poematii Ad Verbum, Ab Henr. Stephano Scripta: Necnon Annotationes. [DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES (Stephanus, Henricus, Ed.) [with] POMPONIUS MELA (Oliver, Pedro Juan, Ed.). Situs orbis descriptio. [with] PSEUDO-JEROME (Simmler, Josias, Ed.) Aethici cosmographia [with] SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS (Delrio, Martin, Ed.) Polyistor] [Geneva], Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1577. £3000 4to, (viii) 158 (xxiv) 47 (i) 152, ¶4 a-v4 ¶4 ¶¶4 ¶4 A-2B4. Greek and Roman letter, a little Italic. Decorated initials, headpieces, Estienne device on title page [Schreiber 18], double- and single-column text alternation. Gloddaeth library bookplate on front pastedown. T-p little soiled, some light age yellowing and thumb marks on margins throughout. Occasional ms. underlining. Bound in early full calf over boards, rebacked, somewhat worn on front covers, red morocco label to spine in compartments. A fine copy. This beautiful edition is a collection of Ancient Greek and Latin texts on geography and cosmography. It includes the famous ethno-geographical description of the world written by the historian Dionysius Periegetes, which was first published by Robert Estienne in 1547, who was the father of Henry, the printer of this edition. This collection includes Pomponius Mela's De situ orbis, the cosmography of Aethicus Ister, and Gaius Julius Solinus's Polyistor, which is a description of the curiosities of the world compiled in Late Antiquity. Except for the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis, in which Mela is cited as an important authority, the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in Classical Latin. This appears here with a commentary by the Spanish humanist Pedro Juan Oliver. The Polyistor is provided with a commentary by the hand of the Jesuit Martin Delrio. The Cosmography, which was issued under the name of Aethicus, its protagonist, is probably the work of a C8th writer, known as Pseudo-Jerome, who was close to the court historiographers of the early Carolingian period. Dionysius Periegetes came from Alexandria and is believed to have written his description at the time of the Roman Emperor Adrian. Renouard, 145; Brunet II, 729; Adams D648; Chaix, 89; Schreiber, Mouson dôra, n°50. …

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1 fort vol. in-folio, veau brun glacé, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid et de petits fleurons dorés, encadrement d'un filet doré sur les plats, médaillon doré azuré au centre, super ex-libris doré en tête du plat sup. "FR. FEUARDANT BAIOCEN". Reliure de l'époque restaurée, mors sup. fendu. Agréable exemplaire. Ex-libris manuscrit de François Feu-Ardant (1588) (et ex-dono aux Capucins de Bayeux) ex-libris manuscrit de Pierre Gaucher de la Noe et de Legoupil (XVIIIe s.). Impression en caractères romains, la glose entourant le texte en caractères plus petits, lettrines historiées, une vignette héraldique aux armes de Sigismond Ier (p. 222 de la seconde partie), marque typographique de Petri au v° de la dernière page du volume, (24) ff., 478 pp. [recte 476], (16) ff., 297 pp. [recte 299], (1) p. Signatures : +6 ++6 +++4 a4 [b-z]6 [A-R]6 [a-b]6 [c-z]4 [H-H]4 [I-N]6 O8. Tache brune étirée sur le feuillet de titre, quelques mouillures pâles angulaires. Plusieurs passages soulignés à l'encre brune et quelques annotations dans les marges (XVIe s.). Importante édition savante, donnée par l'humaniste suisse Johannes Herold. Elle comprend le Polyhistor de Solin dans la version et avec les commentaires remplis d'érudition de l'humaniste Joannes Camers (dit Ricuzzi Vellini), qui est repris de l'édition viennoise de 1520, le Tableau de Cébès, le De Romanorum rebus gestis et l'Epitome de Tite Live de Florus (avec les commentaires de Camers) ; le De Situ Orbis de Pomponius Mela avec les commentaires de l'humaniste autrichien Joachim de Watt (Vadianus) ; et plusieurs opuscules de Joachim de Watt : Ad Rudolphum Agricolam epistola, De Gallo et Gallinis syntagma, Rudimentaria de geographia catechesis, De Vadianae familiae insignibus. Ce volume rassemble donc, dans des versions commentées des textes de l'Antiquité touchant à l'histoire, à la géographie et aux sciences. Exemplaire du célèbre controversiste normand François Feuardent (Coutances 1539-Bayeux 1610). Ce prédicateur cordelier haut en couleurs se rendit célèbre à la fin du XVIe siècle pour ses ouvrages de controverse contre les Protestants qui se distinguent par leur fougue et leur langue colorée. C'était par ailleurs un érudit et humaniste qui établit une édition commentée de saint Irénée et plusieurs commentaires sur les Ecritures. Ce volume comprend plusieurs succinctes annotations de sa main. Adams, S.1395; Graesse VI, 432; VD16, S-6970 ; USTC, 623460. …

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1572 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 241 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 241.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1559 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 247 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 247.…