[Polyhistor]. Ioannis Camertis … in C. Iulii Solini [Greek: polyhistora] enarrationes. Additus eiusdem Camertis Index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabilium copia percommodus studiosis.

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Folio (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.; 30 x 21 cm). ). Letterpress title within historiated woodcut border, double-page woodcut map "Tipus Orbis Universalis Iuxta Ptolomei Cosmographi Traditionem et Americi Vespucii Aliorunque Lustrationes" by Peter Apian dated 1520 (Shirley 45), bound between the text and the index, text of the Polyhistor surrounded by the Enarrationes, three woodcut initials, woodcut device of Lucas Alantse on colophon leaf F4r, printer's device on cc3v; verso of map strengthened in several places, some worm trails from quire [alpha] through quire a occasionally affecting the text (some with minor loss), occasional staining (strongest in quire F), marginal tear on leaf p1 not affecting text. [BOUND WITH:] MELA, Pomponius (fl. ca. 43 AD) - VADIANUS, Joachim [or Von Watt (1484-1551)], ed. and comm. Libri de situ orbis tres, adiectis Ioachimi Vadiani Helvetii in eosdem Scholiis; addita quoque in Geographia Catechesi: & Epistola Vadiani ad Agricola digna lectu. [Colophon:] Vienna: Johannes Singrenius for Lucasa Alantse, May 1518. Folio. Letterpress title within a woodcut border of allegorical figures on the arts, text with commentary surround, woodcut initials, woodcut device of Lucas Alantse on colophon leaf O3v; some worm punctures and trails throughout touching text (occasionally costing a few letters but without significantly impairing legibility), some staining, chiefly marginal. The two works bound together in contemporary quarter pigskin roll-tooled in blind over wooden boards, authors' names and date of 1520 stamped on front cover, manuscript title on spine, brass clasps and catches. (64V1H) TWO CLOSELY RELATED EDITIONS FROM THE SAME VIENNESE PRESS, BOTH HIGHLY IMPORTANT AMERICANA, PRESERVED IN THEIR ORIGINAL SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BINDING. Solinus's compilation of the wonders of the natural world was largely borrowed from the geography of Pomponius Mela and from Pliny the elder's Natural History. Arranged geographically, the work was cited by early medieval authorities such as Isidorus and Bede. Of the numerous editions that followed its first appearance in print (1473), the present edition edited by the Viennese humanist Johannes Camers is prized above all others for the world map that illustrates it. The cartographer and cosmographer Peter Apian based his map on the 1507 woodcut cordiform-shaped wall-map of Waldseemüller, in which the new southern continent was named "America." It also copies other geographical details from the earlier map, including some errors, some of which derived from Ptolemy. It is signed with the publisher's monogram, as well as with the initials of Camers (or Kamers) and Laurent Fries, the woodcutter. First edition with Vadianus's commentary and one of the most desirable editions of Pomponius Mela, the first-century Roman geographer to the courts of Caligula and Claudius, whose geographic treatise contains the earliest mentions of the Baltic Sea ("Sinus Codanus") and the Orkney Islands ("Orcades"), Vadianus's commentary contains several references to Vespucci and the discoveries of the Spanish and Portuguese explorers, and is the first of several editions to append his famous letter to the Swiss humanist Rudolf Agricola. First published as a pamphlet in 1515, the letter elucidates the geographical problems raised by the recent discovery of the continent of America, supporting Waldseemüller's suggestion to name the new continent "America" after Vespucci (fol. 124v: "ex recentior[um] inquisitione, si Americam a Vesputio repertam.") More widely distributed than the 1515 pamphlet, "this edition.undoubtedly contributed to spread the name 'America'" (Borba de Moraes). PROVENANCE: Armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Coelestin Steiglehner (1738-1819, Prince Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Emmeram at Regensburg); Hungarian National Museum Library (duplicate stamps on titles of both works, colophon leaf of the second and verso of map); Swann Galleries, 12 April 2012, lot 90 REFERENCES: Soli. N° de ref. del artículo 65ERM0060

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