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STRABO. Geographia, libri XVI. Latin translation by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. [318] (of [320]) leaves; lacks initial and final blanks. Roman type. Folio, 303x202 mm, contemporary blind-tooled 1/4 leather over wooden boards with brass catch, lacking clasp, recased with top and bottom spine compartments restored and endpapers renewed, covers wormed; dampstain in inner corners and soiling on opening leaves, marginal dampstaining through approximately the last 60 leaves worsening toward end, early marginalia mainly toward beginning and scored inscription on first page. [Treviso]: (Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 26 August 1480)
Fourth edition of the Latin version 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 first printed in 1516 at the Aldine press. HC 15089; GW M44090; BMC VI, 896; ISTC is00796000; Sarton I, 227-29.
