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Auction 44 · Lot 246
SOLINUS, GAIUS JULIUS. De Situ Orbis Terrarum.
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- $1,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(SONCINO PRESS)
printer
Hieronymo Soncino (i.e. Gershom Soncino)
Place
Pesaro
Publication
1512
Description
With copious Latin marginalia
references
Manzoni, Annali Tipografici dei Soncino 70; Adams S-1390
summary
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.
ff. (6), 34, 8. Trace foxed. Later tree calf, upper cover loose, portion of spine missing. Sm. folio
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