An edition of Mela, De situ orbis, without place and date, was printed at Basle, in small octavo, with the corrections of Olive and Barbaro.
This edition was in small octavo, with sixty maps, engraved on metal, of which there are seven of interest to students of American cartography.
One was an exceedingly scarce work by Lawrence Humphrey, entitled 'Optimates sive De Nobilitate eiusque Antiqua Origine,' printed in small octavo at Basle in 1560, which he once saw in a catalogue for five shillings.
Mayer's 'Guide to the Choice of Classical Books,' a small octavo of which a third edition appeared in 1885.
It was english'd by Thomas Underdowne, and published in small octavo by Frauncis Coldocke, at the sign of the greene Dragon in Paules churchyeard, in 1587.
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