1530 Pomponius Mela De Orbis Situ Libri Tres ANTIQUE in LATIN folio GEOGRAPHY

img{max-width:100%} Pomponius Mela (d. 45 CE)De Orbis Situ Libri Tres.Paris: [Chretien Wechel], 1530Folio: 8 1/2 by 13 1/4"title page printed within ornate woodcut compartment,  separate divisional title for commentary printed within the same compartment; bound in half parchment with blue paper-covered boards; manuscript title on the spineex libris Earl of Macclesfield North Library with bookplate pasted inside the front board and embossed stamps to first three leaves; Text in LatinWith commentary of Joachim Vadiana very large copy,  some contemporary marginalia===============================Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died c. AD 45.His short work (De situ orbis libri III) remained in use nearly to the year 1500.It occupies less than one hundred pages of ordinary print, and is described by the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) as "dry in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and oc