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SOLINUS, Julius (fl.3rd century). De situ orbis terrarum . Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1473. Royal half-sheet 4° (277 x 173mm). Collation: [1-7 8 8 12 ] (1/1 blank, 1/2r table, 1/4 blank, 1/5r text, 8/11 verse colophon, 8/12 blank). 68 leaves. 33 lines. Type: 1:114R. One 7-line initial space and 2-line initial spaces with guide-letters. (Occasional light spotting.) 18th-century polished calf (rebacked). Provenance : marginal annotations in a contemporary humanist hand; Clifford Rattey (bookplate, Catalogue of the Library at Corbyns, Torquay B84); W.R.H. Jeudwine (booklabel, sale Bloomsbury 18 Sept. 1984, lot 28); George Abrams (booklabel, sale Sotheby's, 16 Nov. 1989, lot 118). FIRST EDITION. De situ orbis terrarum , a compendium of wonders in the natural world, was chiefly derived from Pliny and Pomponius Mela. Its popularity in the Middle Ages is attested by its wide circulation in manuscript. HC *14877; BMC V, 173 (IB. 19670); Goff S-615; Klebs 922.1.