‎POMPONIUS MELA‎
‎De situ orbis ‎

‎Melas Pomponius. Narrative Geography. De situ orbis. In 2 Volumes In Latin (ask‎

‎Melas Pomponius. Narrative Geography. De situ orbis. In 2 Volumes In Latin (ask us if in doubt)/Pomponiy Mela. Opisatelnaya geografiya. De situ orbis. V 2 tomakh In Latin and Greek Leiden 1748. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb43b3adde926df6cc‎

‎De situ orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonni Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii, Andrea Schotti, Isaci Vossi, & Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Julii Honorii Oratoris excerpta cosmographiae. Cosmographia falso aethicum auctorem præferens cum Varis Lectionibus ex MS. Ravennatis anonymi geographia ex MS. Leideinsi suppleta. curante Abrahamo Gronovio.‎

‎Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde), Ex officina Samuelis Luchtmans, 1722. In-8 de [80]-811-[37]p. demi-vélin, dos lisse, non rogné. ‎

‎Frontispice gravé, une carte dépliante et nombreuses figures in-texte. Mela est le plus ancien géographe romain. Hormis le fait qu'il était originaire de la province de Bétique, dans la baie d'Algésiras, et qu'il écrivait aux alentours de 43, on ne sait rien de lui. En dehors des chapitres géographiques de l'Histoire naturelle de Pline l'Ancien (où Mela est cité comme une référence importante), le De situ orbis (ou De chorographia) est le seul traité sur le sujet en latin classique. La carte figure le monde selon Mela. Accident au ba du dos. ‎

‎De situ orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari ... Accedunt Petri Joannis Nunnesii Epistola de Patria Pomponii Melae, & Adnotata in prooemium, atque duo priora Capita Libri I. Et Jacobi Perizonii Adnotationes ad Libri I. Capita septemdecim.‎

‎Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans et filius, 1748. 8vo (200 x 130 mm). Mit gest. Frontispiz, 1 gest. und mehrfach gefalteten Weltkarte sowie 43 Kupfern im Text. [10] Bl., 545 S., 1 Bl. (Zwischentitel), 547-1081 S., [27] Bl. Pergamentband d. Z. ‎

‎The first latin work on geography, here edited by the Dutch philologist Abraham Gronovius (1695-1775). The Spaniard Pomponius Mela wrote his description of the world (known as De chorographia or De situ orbis) about AD 44. It remained influential until the Reanaissance and its voyages of explorations. This Leiden edition also contains the commentraries of Pedro Juan Nuñez and Jacob Perizon. - Few notes by an old hand in the first fly-leaf. - Contemporary vellum, with ms. title on head of spine. Provenance: Bookplate of the Viennese economist Franz PollackParnau (1903-1981).‎

‎Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii, Andreae Schotti, Isaci Vossii, & Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Julii Honorii oratoris Excerpta Cosmographiae. Cosmographia falso Aethicum auctorem praeferens, cum variis lectionibus ex MS. Ravennatis Anonymi Geographia, ex MS. Leidensis suppleta, curante Abrahamo Gronovio. ‎

‎Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Samuelis Luchtmans, 1722. ‎

‎8vo. (LXXX),811,(36 index),(1 blank) p., frontispiece, folding map. Vellum 21 cm Prize copy (Ref: STCN ppn 238632024; Schweiger 2,611; Brunet 4,801; Dibdin 2,356; Graesse 5,402/403; Ebert 13632; Spoelder p. 683, Utrecht 3) (Details: Prize copy of the 'Gymnasium Hieronymianum' at Utrecht, without the prize. Gilt coat of arms of Utrecht within gilt borders on both boards. 6 thongs laced through the joints. The frontispiece, designed by H. van der My and etched by F. Bleyswyck, depicts a cartographer drawing a map of the world, in the foreground 2 women, one is a cartographer inspecting a map with rule and compass, the other is an archaeologist busy inspecting ancient treasures. Title printed in red and black. The folding map of the earth according to Mela at the beginning of the text is by 'P. Bertius, christianissimi regis geographus'. Engraved text illustrations of coins. 1 full page illustration of 2 sculptured scenes from reliefs 'in hortis Mattheis' (p. 117) The first 304 pages contain the text and commentary. The rest of the book is filled with the annotations of earlier important scholars, especially Isaac Vossius. His observationes fill the pages 316-606. At the end we find Julius Honorius' 'Excerpta quae ad Cosmographiam pertinent' (p. 685-702), the 'Cosmographia antehac temere Aetico adscripta' (p. 703-733), and the 'Ravennatis Anonymi Geographiae libri quinque' (737-811)) (Condition: Binding slightly soiled. Prize gone. All four ties gone. Name on the front flyleaf. Prize removed) (Note: Pomponius Mela, a geographer from the South of Spain, wrote in 43/44 under Claudius the first surviving work on geography in Latin. Pomponius is foremost a writer: distances, directions and other useful information for sailors or travellers is lacking. His work was meant for the educated and curious Roman public. The work was known in the Middle Ages, and in the following centuries he was read at school. The Dutch classical scholar Abraham Gronovius, 1695-1775, acted as librarian at Leyden University from 1741 until his death. He edited editions of the 'Historiae Philippicae' of Justinus, and two editions of Aelianus. He showed interest in geographical matters, and published at Leiden in 1739 his 'Varia Geographica'. He based this new 'Variorum' edition of the geographer Mela Pomponius on an edition which was previously published in 1696 by his father Jacobus Gronovius, 1645-1716, who was professor Greek of the Unverstiy of Leiden) (Provenance: On the front flyleaf in ink: 'Ex praemiis P.G. v. Poolsum 1731'. We found a Petrus Georgius van Poolsum, born in Utrecht in 1718, who became minister of the protestant church of Doorn in 1741. He died in 1772. Does the inscription mean that young Van Poolsum, age 13, received this prize in 1731? This seems possible, for he has the right age and was from Utrecht. Spoelder signals 3 copies of prizes with this type of coat of arms; they were awarded between 1689 and 1711) (Collation: pi1, *-5*8; A-3G8 (leaf 3G8 verso blank) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintani, Petri Ciacconii, Andreae Schotti, Isaaci Vossii, et Jacobi Gronovii. Accedunt Petri Joannis Nunnesii epistola de patria Pomponii Melae, & adnotate (sic!) in prooemium, atque quo priora capita libri I, et Jacobi Perizonii adnotata ad Libri I, capita septemdecim, curante Abrahamo Gronovio. Editio tertia. ‎

‎Leiden, (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Samuelem et Johannem Luchtmans, 1782. ‎

‎8vo. (I, frontispiece),(XX),1081 (recte 1083),(54 index),(1 blank) p. Folding map. Vellum. 21.5 cm 'Prize copy' (Ref: STCN ppn 238030504; Schweiger 2,611/12; Ebert 13634; Graesse 5,403; Brunet 4,801; Dibdin 2,356; Spoelder p. 669, Schiedam 6) (Details: Prize copy, including the manuscript prize for Gerhardus Gelenius Brons. Back gilt. Boards with blind double fillet borders and gilt corner pieces, & the gilt coat of arms of the city of Schiedam. Engraved frontispiece by H. van der Mey and F. Bleyswyck, it depicts a cartographer busy drawing a map; in the foreground 2 nymps, one handles instruments of the cartographer, the other inspects archaeological remains. Numerous engraved illustrations in the text. The folding map of the world is after A.P. Bertius. The first 320 pages contain the text and commentary. The rest of the book is filled with the annotations of earlier important scholars) (Condition: Vellum age tanned. All 4 decorative silk fastening ribbons gone. Tiny bookseller's label on the front pastedown.) (Note: Pomponius Mela, a geographer from the South of Spain, wrote in 43/44 AD. under Claudius the first surviving work on geography in Latin. Pomponius is foremost a writer: distances, directions and other useful information for sailors or travellers is lacking. His work was meant for a educated and curious Roman public. It was known in the Middle Ages, and in the following centuries he was read at school. The Dutch scholar Jacobus Gronovius, 1645-1716, lived in the shadow of his famous father Johannes Fredericus Gronovius, professor Greek of the Unverstiy of Leiden till his death in 1671. His son Jacobus was appointed professor of History and Greek in 1679. He is best known for the 13 volume set 'Thesaurus Antiquitatum Graecarum' which he edited (1697-1702). This industrious scholar produced editions of Tacitus, Gellius, Herodotus, Polybius, Livius, Ammianus, Harpocration and Stephanus Byzantinus, and the 'editio princeps' of Manetho. Gronovius' first edition of Mela Pomponius is of 1685. He published a revised edition with commentary in 1696. Abraham Gronovius, 1695-1775, the son of Jacobus Gronovius produced in 1722 a new 'Variorum' edition of Mela Pomponius, based on the edition of his father. In 1748 Abraham Gronovius published a second and augmented edition of this work. About this second edition Abraham tells us in the preface, that the Luchtman brothers asked him to produce a new 'Variorum' edition, and that he based his edition again of that of his father. 'In ipso Pomponii Melae contextu constituendo Paternam editionem secutus sum, nisi venustiores ac nitidiores codicum MS. lectiones me alio vocarent'. (Lectori p. *3 verso/*4 recto of this 1782 edition) He consulted 11 manuscripts, including one of his one. He also added notes from earlier important editions. Jacobus Perizonius and Carolus Andreas Duker also gladly send him their own unpublished annotations. (Idem, p. *5 recto) This Mela Pomponius edition of 1782, called the third edition, is a reissue of the second edition of 1748. The preface of 1748 is repeated in this 1782 edition. Abraham Gronovius was librarian at Leyden University, from 1741 until his death. He produced editions of the 'Historiae Philippicae' of Justinus, and two editions of Aelianus. He showed interest in geographical matters. He published at Leyden in 1739 his 'Varia Geographica', and in 1752 a school edition of Mela which offers a Latin text only) (Provenance: The manuscript prize is awarded to young 'Gerhardo Gelinio Brons', on the occasion of his promotion from the 3rd to the 2nd grade for his diligence. The date is September 4, 1783, and signed by the 'curatores' of the 'Schola Latina' at Schiedam, C.J. Bosschaert, W. Jager, Jacobus van Eijk, and the Rector Johannes van Laar. Ger(h)ardus Gelenius Brons, age 17, enrolled as a student at the University of Leiden in 1785. He died in Schiedam in 1847. On the front flyleaf a small green label 'Wm Strong, bookseller, (3) Clare Street, Bristol'. William Strong died in 1846)(Collation: pi1, *8, 2*2; A-4B8 (leaf 4B8 verso, last page, blank. Leaf chi1 (title-page of part 2) bound between gathering P & Q)) (Photographs at request) ‎