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STRABO (64/63 B.C.-c.25 A.D.). De situ orbis. Translated from Greek into Latin by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Edited by Antoninus Mancinellus. Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 24 April 1494.
Super-chancery 2 (303 x 210mm). Collation and contents as Christie's, New York, 7 October 1997, lot 101, the 2 quires of table bound here at the end. 165 leaves (of 166, without title to table). 61 lines and foliation, shoulder notes. 7- to 2-line initial spaces. Types 2:82R, Haebler 13:80Gk. (Light dampstaining and spotting.) Later flexible vellum (new endpapers).
Fifth or sixth edition, third Venetian edition, of Strabo's great geographical encyclopedia. 'It marked the first attempt to assemble all available geographical knowledge into a single treatise' (DSB). The present edition predates another by the same printer (Goff S-798), dated 28 January [1494/5]. HC *15090; BMC V, 418 (IB. 23162); Klebs 935.5; Goff S-797.
Super-chancery 2 (303 x 210mm). Collation and contents as Christie's, New York, 7 October 1997, lot 101, the 2 quires of table bound here at the end. 165 leaves (of 166, without title to table). 61 lines and foliation, shoulder notes. 7- to 2-line initial spaces. Types 2:82R, Haebler 13:80Gk. (Light dampstaining and spotting.) Later flexible vellum (new endpapers).
Fifth or sixth edition, third Venetian edition, of Strabo's great geographical encyclopedia. 'It marked the first attempt to assemble all available geographical knowledge into a single treatise' (DSB). The present edition predates another by the same printer (Goff S-798), dated 28 January [1494/5]. HC *15090; BMC V, 418 (IB. 23162); Klebs 935.5; Goff S-797.