Priscianus Caesariensis (sold)
Priscianus Caesariensis (Priscian of Caesarea) (fl. 500-530) was a Latin grammarian best known as the author of Institutes of Grammar, the standard textbook for the study of Latin in the Middle Ages. He was born in Caesarea, modern Cherchell in Algeria. It was then capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis, which during Priscian's life was part of the Vandalic Kingdom. He is reported to have taught Latin in Constantinople. Known dates to his works are scarcePriscian's works were committed to print in 1470, but the inclusion of his translation of Dionysius Periegetes in a geographical work, rather than grammatical, did not occur until the 1482 edition of Pomponius Mela.
With the only pre-1500 map reflecting the Age of Discovery.
This is a rare, important 1482 incunable edition of Pomponius Mela's Cosmographi Geographica or De situ orbis, the only full Latin text on geography to have survived the classical era. This 1482 edition is doubly important as the first geographical text to include a map, as opposed to an atlas. Moreover, it is the only map of the pre-1500 era to show evidence of the Portuguese voyages of discovery. (more details)