Illyris, & Italia Insulasque, tum in Adria, tum in Tusco Mari propius Italiam

Rare and unusual map of Italy included in editions of Pomponius Mela's first-century geographic work, De Situ Orbis, edited by scholar John Reynolds. The map was intended to help the modern reader with ancient geography by placing the first-century Roman geographer's toponymy within the framework of a more modern delineation of the peninsula.

This map was produced for inclusion in a 1739 London edition of Reynolds' De Situ Orbis by Pomponius Mela. A posthumous 1761 edition was printed at Eton using the same plates without modification.

John Reynolds (1671 - 1758) was an English clergyman, teacher and scholar. He was bound all his life to Eton, where he entered as a student in 1689. He received his BA at Exeter in 1694 and his MA in 1698; he graduated in Divinity at Oxford in 1718. He was ordained a priest in 1729.

Etching, slight water gore in the side margins, otherwise in good condition.