The vvorke of Pomponius Mela. the cosmographer, concerninge the situation of the world wherein euery parte, is deuided by it selfe in most perfect manner, as appeareth in the table at the ende of the booke. A booke right plesant and profitable for all sortes of men: but speciallie for gentlemen, marchants, mariners, and trauellers, translated out of Latine by Arthur Golding Gentleman.

Title

The vvorke of Pomponius Mela. the cosmographer, concerninge the situation of the world wherein euery parte, is deuided by it selfe in most perfect manner, as appeareth in the table at the ende of the booke. A booke right plesant and profitable for all sortes of men: but speciallie for gentlemen, marchants, mariners, and trauellers, translated out of Latine by Arthur Golding Gentleman.

Author

Mela, Pomponius.

Publication

At London :: Printed [by John Charlewood] for Thomas Hacket, and are to be sold at his shop in Lumbert streete, vn- [sic] the signe of the Popes head,

1585.

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Geography, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.

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"The vvorke of Pomponius Mela. the cosmographer, concerninge the situation of the world wherein euery parte, is deuided by it selfe in most perfect manner, as appeareth in the table at the ende of the booke. A booke right plesant and profitable for all sortes of men: but speciallie for gentlemen, marchants, mariners, and trauellers, translated out of Latine by Arthur Golding Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07401.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 26, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• ❧To the right Ho∣nourable, Syr William Cicill, of the Noble order of the Garter, Knight, Barron of Burgley, Lord high Treasurer of England, and one of her Maiestyes most honourable prie Counsell, health, honour and prosperitie.
• ❧ The fyrst Booke of that worthy Cosmographer, Pom∣ponius Mela, of the scituation of the world.
  • ❧ The deuision of the world into fowre partes.
  • A breefe description of Asia.
  • A breefe description of Europe.
  • A breefe description of Affricke.
  • A particular description of Affricke. Of Mauritania.
  • Of Numidia.
  • The lesser Affricke.
  • Of Cyrenaica.
  • A particular description of Asia. Of Egipt.
  • Of Arabia.
  • Of Syria.
  • Of Phaenicia.
  • Of Cilicia.
  • Of Pamphilia.
  • Of Lycia.
  • Of Caria.
  • Of Ionia.
  • Of Aeolis.
  • Of Bithynia.
  • Of Paphlagonia.
  • Of the Chalybies.
• ❧ The second Booke of that woorthy Cosmographer, Pomponius Mela, concer∣ning the scituation of the world.
  • Of Scithia, of Europe.
  • Of Thrace.
  • Of Macedonia.
  • Of Italie.
  • Of the Prouince of Narbon.
  • Of Spaine.
  • The Iles of the mid-land Sea.
• ❧ The thyrd Booke of that woorthy Cosmographer, Pomponius Mela, concer∣ning the scituation of the world.
  • The vttermost shores of Spaine.
  • The vttermost coasts of Gallia.
  • Of Germanie.
  • Of Sarmatia.
  • Of Scithia.
  • The Ilandes of Spaine, and of the North-partes.
  • Of India.
  • Of the Persian gulfe.
  • The gulfe of Arabia.
  • Of Ethyope.
  • The coast and Ilandes of the Athlantishe Ocean.
• ❧ A Table containing the Con∣tentes of this Booke.