a subeditor and assistant, there is no reason to doubt the plain statement on the title-page, which was always believed by
Walter’s children and grandchildren and was directly sanctioned by Anson. But in any case, whether edited by Walter or Robins,
the book was virtually written by Anson himself, as stated on the title-page, and as affirmed by Anson’s friends . . .” (J.
K. Laughton in the
Dictionary of National Biography). This Dublin edition was probably pirated; the seventh London edition was printed in 1753.
Richard Walter, 1716?-1785, chaplain in the Navy, was appointed in 1740 chaplain of his Majesty’s ship
Centurion, then being fitted for her voyage round the world. For a full account of the dispute with regard to his authorship of the
relation of this
Voyage, see his life in the
Dictionary of National Biography, by Laughton, and also the life of
Benjamin Robins, 1707-1751, English mathematician and military engineer.
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Dionysii geographia.
Gr.
Lat. Wells.
8
vo.
Lond.
1718.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 112, as above, omitting Lond. 1718.
DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES.
Τ(
~η)ς παλαί κα(`ι) τ(
~η)ς νυν ο(’ι)κουμένης περιήγησις, sive Dionysii Geographia emendata & locupletata, additione scil. Geographiæ Hodiernæ
Græco Carmine pariter donatæ: cum
xvi tabulis geographicis. Ab Edv. Wells, A.M. AEdis Christi Alumn. Editio
tertia.
Londini: e typographæo
Mariæ Matthews . . .
m. d.cc.xviii.
[1718.]
8vo. 70 leaves, engraved maps;
Greek text in verse followed by notes in
Latin and the translation into
Latin verse. No copy of this edition was seen for collation; in the fourth edition by Wells, London 1726, of which the Library of Congress has a copy, Chapter XXX treats of America,
Sive India occidentali, and Chapter XXXV of the
Insulis Americanis. The maps include
America Septentrionalis and
Australis.
Brunet II, 130.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Edward Wells, 1667-1727, English geographer, mathematician and divine, published his first edition of this work in 1704 at Oxford, where
the second edition was also printed; this is the first London edition.
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Solinus Polyhistor.
12
mo.
Lipsiae.
1777.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 2, as above.
SOLINUS,
Caius Julius.
Caii Ivlii Solini Polyhistor. Ex Editione Clavdii Salmasii accvrante M. Andrea Goezio. Lipsiæ: Prostat in Libraria
M. I. Baveri Taberna A.S.R.
c
iɔ
iɔ
cclxxvii
. [1777.]
Sm. 8vo. 216 leaves, engraved vignette on the title-page.
Ebert 21410.
Graesse VI, 432.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price
3. plus 1.5, the latter sum probably for the binding.
Caius Julius Solinus, Latin grammarian and compiler, lived in the first half of the third century A.D., and was the author of
Collectanea rerum memorabilium, which in the sixth century was revised with the title
Polyhistor. It contains the history of the ancient world and is drawn from Pliny’s
Natural History
and the work of Pomponius Mela.
Claudius Salmasius [Claude Saumaise], 1588-1653, French classical scholar, first published his commentary on the
Polyhistor in 1629.
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Wells’s Maps of antient & present geography.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. E, as above, but reading
gr. fol.
WELLS,
Edward.
A New Sett of Maps both of Antient and Present Geography . . . Together with a Geographical Treatise particularly adapted
to the Use and Design of these
