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[HISTORY] - Correcting the Ancient World: Núñez’s Humanist Emendations to Roman Geography - MELA, NUNEZ Pomponius, Hernan XVIth century - Pomponius Mela / Hernán Núñez – Castigationes in Pomponium Melam. Salamanca, Juan de Junta, 1543. 8vo (140 × 90 mm); 100 leaves. Woodcut initials. Several marginal annotations in ancient hand. Some pages a little shortcut. Contemporary limp vellum. Minor trimming to a few headlines. Good copy with early marginalia. First edition of Núñez’s scholarly corrections to Pomponius Mela’s geography. Includes critical emendations, orthographic refinements, and comparisons with classical authors.