Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 2) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-2]

Venice; 1478.] POMPONIUS MELA.

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There is much elegance in this edition. The page is well set up, the
type neat, and the margin ample. The date of it is probably some-
vvhere about the year 1474. A very desirable copy; in russia binding.

384. Pomponius Mela. Printed hy Hailhrun.
Venice. 14/8. Quarto.

One of the most elegantly executed volumes from the press of
Hailbrun. Panzer, according to the authorities quoted by him, says
that it is a mere reprint of Ratdolt’s impression of the year 1477, and
executed also at Venice. On the recto of the first leaf, signature a, it
is as follows:

Pomponij Mellp Cosmographi de
situ orbis liber primus. Ptooemium.*

Rbis situ dicere aggredior
impeditum opum 8c facun/
dip minime capax. Costat
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.

The first two lines of this extract are executed very neatly in red ink;
a full page has 26 lines. There are marginal printed notes ; and the
signatures run from a to f in eights. On the reverse of f viij, we read
the impi'int, thus :

Impressum est hoc opusculu Yenetijs
per Franciscum renner de Hailbrun.

. M . CCCC . LXXVIIL

Laus Deo.

Appended to the copyof this edition, there is an impression of Diony-
sius, De Situ Okbis ; by the same printer, and with the same date.
This latter has signatures, from a to d, in eights, d, six, and ends on
the recto of e v. Two pages of a table follow. There are very neatly
printed capital initials, like those in vol. i. p. xl. of the late edition of
our Typographical Antiquities. The present copy, containing both the
works here described, is bound in calf, with a red-morocco back.

* Sic.