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Cosmographia Pomponij Mele: authoris nitidissimi tribus libris digesta

Mela, Pomponius, Cochlaeus, Johannes, 1479-1552 · 1512 · [Nuremberg : J. Weissenburger] · 1 picture

A 1512 geography text, Pomponius Mela's Cosmographia edited by Johannes Cochlaeus, printed in Nuremberg by Johann Weissenburger for scholars and students of cosmography. Its single picture is a woodcut of a armillary-style celestial sphere with bands of latitude, zones labelled with Latin terms, a scroll, and a hand pointing to a globe, drawn in a crisp, schematic manner a designer could borrow for diagrammatic or astronomical graphics.

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