Isaaci Vossii observationum ad Pomp. Melam appendix. Accedit ejusdem ad tertias P. Simonii objectiones responsio. Subjungitur Pauli Colomesii ad Henricum Justellum epistola.
Londini [i.e. London].
Prostant apud Robertum Scott, 1686.
Quarto.
[2], 136pp, [2]. With an errata leaf. Without the dedication leaf (a common occurrence according to ESTC). Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities lightly discoloured and a trifle marked.
A crisp copy of the first London edition of Dutch philologist and manuscript collector Isaac Vossius' (1618-1689) supplementary volume to his commentary (The Hague, 1658) on Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's (fl. 43 CE) De situ orbis, the only ancient treatise on geography in classical Latin. The editio princeps of Mela was published at Milan in 1471; the first critical edition was by Vadianus (Basel, 1522).
ESTC R24581, Wing V704.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 19487
