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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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