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De orbis situ libri tres, accuratissime emendati, unà cu(m) comme(n)tariis Ioachimi...
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De orbis situ libri tres, accuratissime emendati, unà cu(m) comme(n)tariis Ioachimi Vadiani Helvetii ... Adiecta sunt praeterea loca aliquot ex Vadiani commentarijs ... in quibus aestimandis censendisq(ue) ... Ioanni Camerti ... cum Ioachimo Vadiano non admodum convenit. Rursum, epistola Vadiani, ab eo ... ad Rudolphum Agricolam iuniorem scripta ... 2 parts in 1 vol.

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Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1522. With 2 richly figured woodcut title borders by Hans Franck, and many woodcut figured initials. 20 unn. leaves, 220 pp., 44 unn. leaves. Folio. 18th-century calf with richly gilt spine, gilt armorial supralibros of Karl Theodor von der Pfalz on both covers (signed B.P. in lowest compartment). Basel, (Andreas Cratander), 1522. Pomponius Mela's famous Latin "Geography" of the earliest surviving Latin work on geography, present here in the epochal edition by the great Swiss humanist Joachim von Watt or Vadianus (1484-1551), first published in a textually shorter edition in Vienna, 1518: 23, 132 ff., see VD 16 M 2310). The present second edition is revised and augmented, and is the first to contain the "Loca aliquot" in which Vadianus once more confirmed his modern scientific point of view by critizising the obsolete one of Johannes Camertus. Further more, this second edition contains the famous letters by Vadian to Rudolph Agricola with the… Read More
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