Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri III.. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, ... & Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Julii Honorii oratoris excerpta cosmographiae. Cosmographia falso Aethicum auctorem præferens cum variis lectionibus ex MS. Ravennatis anonymi geographia ex MS. Leidensi suppleta.
Pomponius Mela (d.c.45AD)
Category
Books
Date
1722
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3208995
Summary
Bibliographic description
[82], 811, [37] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 8vo. Provenance: eighteenth-century sepia crest bookplate with motto: Nil deperandum. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]; pasted over eighteenth-century early armorial bookplate of Richard Banner [Banner (b. 1696) of Little Aston Hall, sold library to Thomas Anson in about 1745]. Inscription also pasted over and unidentified. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; gilt tooled spine; five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Pomponius Mela (d.c.45AD) , author Pedro Chacón (1527-1581) Geographus Ravennas (fl.8th century), compiler Aethicus Ister Ermolao Barbaro (1454 - 1493) Patriarch of Aquileia Petrus Ciaconius Abraham Gronovius (1695-1775) Julius Honorius Isaac Vossius (1618-1689)