Item details: Cyrenaica
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£ 120.00
MELA, Pomponius
Cyrenaica
Imprint: Basle, 1564
140 x 160 mm., in fine condition.
Pomponius Mela's "De Situ Orbis" was one of the classical texts on geography along with the more famous Ptolemy "Geografia". This edition by the publisher Heinrich Petri included a series of small maps. This one covers Egypt. Shirley BL Atlases G.Mela 1c no. 4.
Stock number:4553.