Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PAUSANIAS. Accurata Graeciae descriptio. Greek text with Latin translation by Romolo Amaseo and notes by Wilhelm Xylander and Friedrich Sylburg; edited by Xylander. [12], 357, [1] pages, 359-508 columns, [77] pages; [12], 302 pages, 303-52 columns, [1] page. Folio, old calf with gilt wreath in center of covers, rebacked, cover corners and edges worn through; contents toned, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, inscriptions washed out of general title with residual stain. Later 19th-century signature and bibliographical note of R. A. H. Bickford-Smith of Trevarno, Cornwall. Frankfurt am Main: heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1583

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Second edition of the Greek text after the 1516 Aldine editio princeps. Hoffmann III, 48.