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STEPHANUS, Byzantinus. Peri poleon . . . De urbibus. Greek text, edited with indexes by Wilhelm Xylander. [4] leaves, 388 columns, [1] leaf. Folio, 310x204 mm, 17th-century sheep, badly worn, covers detached; occasional toning, heavy browning at end, title soiled with stain and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp. Signatures of Lorenzo Verzusi and Giacomo Soranzo. Basel: Officina Oporiniana, 1568
first xylander edition of the 6th-century epitome of an earlier geographical dictionary of ancient Greece now largely lost. Hoffmann III, 441; Sarton I, 433.
