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STRABO (64/63 B.C. - ca. 21 A.D.). De Situ Orbis, in Greek. Ed. Benedictus Tyrrhenus. Venice: Aldine Press, November 1516.
Aldine 2° (310 x 200 mm.). Greek type. Headings and woodcut ornamental head-pieces and initials printed in red. Printer's woodcut device. (Upper blank margin of title and last few leaves repaired, dampstaining towards the end.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf over pasteboard (restored).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. The most important classical work of mathematical geography before Ptolemy, Strabo's text is also an historical geography and a philosophy of geography. The manuscript from which Tyrrhenus edited the text is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Renouard 77.7; Hoffmann III, 453; Isaac 12864; Adams S-1903.
Aldine 2° (310 x 200 mm.). Greek type. Headings and woodcut ornamental head-pieces and initials printed in red. Printer's woodcut device. (Upper blank margin of title and last few leaves repaired, dampstaining towards the end.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf over pasteboard (restored).
EDITIO PRINCEPS. The most important classical work of mathematical geography before Ptolemy, Strabo's text is also an historical geography and a philosophy of geography. The manuscript from which Tyrrhenus edited the text is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Renouard 77.7; Hoffmann III, 453; Isaac 12864; Adams S-1903.