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DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES. Cosmographia siue de situ orbis, translated by Antonius Beccaria, Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1478. 4° (203 x 144mm). 36 leaves, 26 lines, roman letter with a few words in Greek, first 4 lines on a1r printed in red, a few woodcut initials. (Blank portion of lower margin of last leaf cut away, lower fore-corner of penultimate leaf also cut away, slight worming in most lower blank margins, occasional very light staining and discolouration). Modern boards. Provenance: a few contemporary marginalia in an Italian hand at the beginning. Second edition. Hain 6227*; GKW 8427; BMC V, 195; Klebs 340.2; Goff D-254.

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DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES. Cosmographia siue de situ orbis, translated by Antonius Beccaria, Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1478. 4° (203 x 144mm). 36 leaves, 26 lines, roman letter with a few words in Greek, first 4 lines on a1r printed in red, a few woodcut initials. (Blank portion of lower margin of last leaf cut away, lower fore-corner of penultimate leaf also cut away, slight worming in most lower blank margins, occasional very light staining and discolouration). Modern boards. Provenance: a few contemporary marginalia in an Italian hand at the beginning. Second edition. Hain 6227*; GKW 8427; BMC V, 195; Klebs 340.2; Goff D-254.
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