SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS. De Situ Orbis Terrarum.

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 246

(SONCINO PRESS)

SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS. De Situ Orbis Terrarum.

With copious Latin marginalia ff. (6), 34, 8. Trace foxed. Later tree calf, upper cover loose, portion of spine missing. Sm. folio Manzoni, Annali Tipografici dei Soncino 70; Adams S-1390

Pesaro: Hieronymo Soncino (i.e. Gershom Soncino) 1512

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

There is some question as to when the Roman geographer Solinus lived. Although he is assumed to have flourished in the middle of the fourth century, historian Theodor Mommsen places him a century earlier.