De situ orbis libri tres; Aethici Cosmographi, H. Glareani compendiaria descriptio orbis terrarum.
Item
Mela, Pomponius. 1618. “De Situ Orbis Libri Tres; Aethici Cosmographi, H. Glareani Compendiaria Descriptio Orbis Terrarum”. Apud Ioan. Libert, Terra Incognita, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/terra-incognita/item/18980
- Title
- De situ orbis libri tres; Aethici Cosmographi, H. Glareani compendiaria descriptio orbis terrarum.
- Description
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Shown here is the titlepage from a reprint of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's Description of the World. He described the world as it was perceived by the ancient Romans.
His work is presented as a circumnavigation of the known world at that time, including the continents of Africa, Asia and Europe. The outer edges of all the continents remained unfamiliar to the Romans, and it was here that creatures of mythology were believed to exist.
Mela included historical, cultural, mythological as well as geographical information in his work, and numerous copies and translations circulated throughout Europe during this age of exploration.
Bound with this copy is Aethici Cosmographi by Henricus Glareanus.
Gift of Philip M. Arnold.
- Creator
- Mela, Pomponius
- Publisher
- Apud Ioan. Libert
- Date
- 1619
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Item sets
- Terra Incognita
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Mela, Pomponius. 1618. “De Situ Orbis Libri Tres; Aethici Cosmographi, H. Glareani Compendiaria Descriptio Orbis Terrarum”. Apud Ioan. Libert, Terra Incognita, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/terra-incognita/item/18980