Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
STRABO. De situ orbis. Latin translation by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. [16], 150 leaves (but here with last 8 leaves of table of contents bound between a6 and b1). Roman type. Folio, 318x215 mm, old 1/4 leather, worn, joints cracked, cords intact, endpapers renewed; dampstaining in upper and lower margins through, title soiled, torn in blank corners and mounted, scattered restoration in blank outer corners, occasional early underscoring and marginalia. (Venice: Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 24 April 1494)
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Fifth edition of the Latin translation first published in 1469 in Rome. The only extant work by the Greek geographer Strabo (64/63 B.C.-25 A.D.), "this was the first attempt to write a geographical encyclopaedia" (Sarton). The Greek original text was printed for the first time in 1516 at the Aldine press. BMC V, 418; Goff S797; DSB XIII, 83-86; Sarton I, 227-29.