Lithuania, Livonia – De mirabilibus mundi, 1538

1538 Gaius Julius Solinus: [“Lithuania, Livonia…”], Basle, 4 x 3 inches, in a 16th century republishing of a mid-3rd cent. treatise: “De mirabilibus mundi” (‘The wonders of the world)” containing a description of the ancient world, mostly from Pliny’s Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela. The map labels “Lithuania,” “Vilna,” “Grodno,” “Livonia,” and “Riga.”