[Travels Voyages] Solinus Gaius Julius (early 3rd century)

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[Travels & Voyages] Solinus, Gaius Julius (early 3rd century)
Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus Locupletissimus [...] Pomponii Melae de Situ Orbis Libro.

Basel: Apud Mich. Isingrinium, 1543.

Folio, second edition, edited by Sebastian Munster; illustrated with seventeen text woodcuts (of which two are full-page), and two large folding woodcut maps; bound in full parchment over stiff boards, some staining and spotting to contents, without ffep; circa 1720 bookticket of Francesco Nigro of Mantua pasted below imprint on title; last leaf blank but for printer's mark present; ex libris Leonidas Leonetti of Udine (1857-circa 1930) and S.L. Cohen with bookplates inside front board with bookseller's label of the Bocca bookstore in Milan; 11 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.

Adams S-1394; Burden 11.

The double-page map of Asia depicts the earliest European printed cartographical representation of the Pacific Northwest coast of the North American continent.

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