SOLINUS DE MEMORALIBUS MUNDI. by SOLINUS, Caius Julius.: - 1498

Venetiis, anno Domini. M. CCCC. LXXXXVIII. die. X. Marci. (1498).. INCUNABULA 1498. Ex library copy, 1 ink stamp only to title page, TEXT IN LATIN. 8vo, approximately 1195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5½ inches, 46 unnumbered leaves, 92 pages, signatures: a-e8, f6. Capital spaces with guide letters. Fol. [1a]: Caiiulii. Solini rerum memorabilium colectaneae. Fol. [1b]: De origine & temporibus urbis Romae & mensibus & diebus in tercalaribus. Capitulum I. Bound in modern full speckled calf, gilt title to spine, new endpapers. Slight loss of gilt to a few letters on spine, pale staining to first and last page, some pale foxing, mostly to margins, small Ink library stamp to title page, bookplate to first pastedown (Walter Goldwater. Mr. Goldwater American Bookseller was a founding member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and had a collection of early printed books, mostly from the 15th century(?), a very good copy. After the first page the book opens with a short description of the ancient world, then with short chapters on many countries, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, plus natural history, curiosities and precious stones, the greater part is taken from Pliny"s Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela. There is a meagre addition about the British Isles which gives us Tanatus (Thanet): the stone jet, found abundantly in Britain, and remarks on the absence of snakes in Ireland. He introduced the name 'Mare Mediteraneum; see: The Oxford Classical Dictionary, page 847; Sergio Rossetti, Rome A Bibliography from the Invention of Printing, Volume 3, page 342, No. 9400; British Museum Catalogue, Volume 23, page 936, colum 687; Polain, Catalogue Des Livres Imprimes au Quinzieme Siecle, Volume 3, page 743, No. 3563; Goff, Incunabula in American Libraries, page 567; Hain, 14885. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE CLICK ON THE IMAGE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.