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SOLINUS, CAIUS JULIUS. Joannis Camertis . . . In C. Julii Solini Polyistora enarrationes. Text by Solinus with commentary by Johannes Camers. Folding woodcut cordiform world map after Petrus Apianus measuring 302x425 mm (toned, trimmed near names of cardinal directions outside rule border and rehinged, reinforced along 2 older folds on verso, separating along newer fold). Title within woodcut historiated border. [16], 336, [36] pages, including final blank * MELA, POMPONIUS. Libri de situ orbis tres. With commentary by Joachim Vadianus. Title within woodcut historiated border. [23], 132 [i. e., 133], [2] leaves, including final blank. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 300x210 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, small wormholes through covers continuing into front and back of contents generally not impairing legibility; occasional dampstaining in upper margins, scattered minor stains elsewhere, Solinus with ink accession number on verso of title visible on recto and F2.3 browned. Armorial bookplate of Coelestin Steiglehner (1738-1819), Prince Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Emmeram at Regensburg, on front pastedown; duplicate stamps of the Hungarian National Museum Library on titles of both works, colophon page of the second, and verso of map. (Vienna: Johannes Singriener for Lucas Alantse, 1520; 1518)
first camers edition of Solinus,containing the earliest map in a printed book to designate the new world as america; bound with the first vadian edition of Mela. This volume brings together 2 key early texts in the dispute over ancient and modern knowledge following the New World voyages of Columbus and others: Camers favored a tradition-bound approach to the geographical classics, while Vadian undertook a critical analysis of the errors of ancient and medieval authors. The inclusion of the Apian map in the Camers edition is ironic in view of the latter's conservatism; Apian's source was the 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemüller, which took into account the discoveries of Columbus and Vespucci, depicting a separate western hemisphere and using the name America for the first time. Alden 520/25, 518/6; Cambridge History of Science III, 494-95; Shirley 45; The World Encompassed 61.
