Pomponii Melæ De situ orbis libri tres
Subtitle: Vnà cum auctario Petri Ioannis Oliuarij Valentini, instauratione totius libelli & castigatione perquam multorum locorum, insertis quoque locis plerísque in eode[m] libello desideratis
Contributors: Oliver, Pedro Juan, 16th cent
Publisher: Apud Iacobum Keruer, in via Iacob[a]ea sub duobus gallis.
Published: 1557
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Ancient Geography
Other titles: De situ orbis libri tres.
Work titles: De chorographia
Notes: Originally published as: Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis, Milan, 1471. First edition with commentary by Oliver was published in 1536.  This expanded version appears to be the same sheets as the Paris, 1556 edition with a new title page.

Title vignette: printer's device (unicorn with shield)

Signatures: ã⁴ A⁴ chi² B-2E⁴ (chi1 missigned A5) (chi2 blank)

Leaves 9, 11 misnumbered 13, 7 respectively; leaves 13-16 omitted in numbering.

Includes index.

Contains references to Greenland and the island of Saint Thomas on leaf 7 (i.e. 11) verso; to Peru on leaf 76 verso.

Adams M1062.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 160080.

Grässe V, p. 402.

John Carter Brown Library copy has last leaf folded to preserve manuscript annotations at bottom; other ms. notations throughout.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from Pickering & Chatto Ltd.