Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
STRABO. Rerum geographicarum libri XVII. Greek text with Latin translation by Gulielmus Xylander; edited with notes by Isaac Casaubon. General and divisional titles within woodcut historiated architectural border. [8], 602, [2(blank)]; [8], 223 pages; lacks the map. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 349x216 mm, 17th-century calf blind-tooled to panel design with arabesque centerpiece on covers, spine ends chipped, sewing supports worn through along joints, few surface imperfects on covers, lacks catches and clasps; scattered foxing, vertical crease in title, names of the authors of dedicatory verses on *4 inked out, marginal dampstaining and insignificant worming at beginning and end, front free endpaper lacking. [Geneva]: Eustathius Vignon, 1587

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first casaubon edition. Hoffmann III, 454.