DIONYSIUS, Periegetes and Pomponius MELA. Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici cosmographia, [Geneva:] H. Stephanus, 1577. 2 parts in one volume, small 4°, printer's device on title, ornamental initials (outer margin of front endpaper, title, first ca. 40 leaves and last leaf with laminated repairs, some slight loss at beginning, a few outer margins slightly frayed, title and final leaf soiled, some outer margins lightly waterstained, very lightly browned throughout), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (head of front joint split, corners repaired, soiled, lower cover stained). Adams D648. Schreiber 200: "important and beautiful edition of these Greek and Roman geographical texts ... Henri has made important additions to his father's edition".

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DIONYSIUS, Periegetes and Pomponius MELA. Situs orbis descriptio. Aethici cosmographia, [Geneva:] H. Stephanus, 1577. 2 parts in one volume, small 4°, printer's device on title, ornamental initials (outer margin of front endpaper, title, first ca. 40 leaves and last leaf with laminated repairs, some slight loss at beginning, a few outer margins slightly frayed, title and final leaf soiled, some outer margins lightly waterstained, very lightly browned throughout), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (head of front joint split, corners repaired, soiled, lower cover stained). Adams D648. Schreiber 200: "important and beautiful edition of these Greek and Roman geographical texts ... Henri has made important additions to his father's edition".

With Nicolaus de Blegny's Zodiacus medico-gallicus, sive miscellaneorum medico-physicorum gallicorum (volumes II and III only, lacking vol. I, Geneva, 1682, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates) and a manuscript entitled "Lectures on Natural Philosophy and Astronomy by W. Buchan" (1780 or later). (3)

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