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STRABO (64/63 B.C.-ca 25 A.D.). Geographica. Translated from Greek into Latin by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tiphernas. Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.
2o (398 x 280 mm). Collation: [a-p10.10.10.8.8. q-s10 t8 v8-1 x-y10 z8 A8]. 219 leaves (the first and last blank). 51 lines. Roman type 1:110R2 and Greek type 110. Capital spaces, with guide-letters, also some spaces for Greek. (Some minor marginal worming.) 19th-century vellum over boards (light wear to corners). Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead (bookplate); C.S. Ascherson (bookplate).
ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC TREATISES ON HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
Second edition, FIRST VENETIAN EDITION, based on the first Latin edition by Sweynheym and Pannartz, published in 1469. Strabo's only surviving work, the Geography constituted the first attempt at a unified treatise of geographical knowledge. The work surveys the topography, history and political characteristics of the principal regions of the Roman world. In bringing up to date the work of the first systematic geographer, Erastothenes (3rd century B.C.), whose writings are now lost, Strabo relied on other Greek sources but paid scant attention to recent Roman records. His treatise brought together philosophy, political theory, geology, mathematics, and history. Following Erastothenes, he presented the world as a single ocean-girt landmass on the northern half of a sphere, immobile within a revolving universe. He "devoted much attention to the forces that had formed the oikoumene [inhabited land]... Strabo suggested that some islands were torn from the mainland by earthquakes, while others (including Sicily) were thrown up by volcanic action. He gave examples of both local and widespread land subsidence and alluded to the uprising of seabeds with consequent flooding; he further described the silting of rivers that form alluvial plains and deltas" (DSB). His descriptions of the Mediterranean regions, Asia Minor and Egypt are excellent, while those of Gaul, Britain and Greece are weaker (the errors relating to his native country may have been due to his excessive veneration of Homer, whose authority he extended to geography). That Strabo's geography was unknown to the Romans, even to Pliny the Elder, in spite of his expressed wish that it be read by the statesmen and rulers of the Empire, is evidence that it may have been written far from Rome. The work was not generally known until the 5th century, but came to be the standard geographical reference work during the Middle Ages.
This fine copy, from the first Venetian Press, is printed in the elegant de Spira Roman type, in a dark impression. A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY with many deckle edges, and pin holes at head and foot of some outer margins. BSB-Ink. S-595; BMC V,161; Goff S-794; HC 15087*; Pr 4042.
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ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC TREATISES ON HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
Second edition, FIRST VENETIAN EDITION, based on the first Latin edition by Sweynheym and Pannartz, published in 1469. Strabo's only surviving work, the Geography constituted the first attempt at a unified treatise of geographical knowledge. The work surveys the topography, history and political characteristics of the principal regions of the Roman world. In bringing up to date the work of the first systematic geographer, Erastothenes (3rd century B.C.), whose writings are now lost, Strabo relied on other Greek sources but paid scant attention to recent Roman records. His treatise brought together philosophy, political theory, geology, mathematics, and history. Following Erastothenes, he presented the world as a single ocean-girt landmass on the northern half of a sphere, immobile within a revolving universe. He "devoted much attention to the forces that had formed the oikoumene [inhabited land]... Strabo suggested that some islands were torn from the mainland by earthquakes, while others (including Sicily) were thrown up by volcanic action. He gave examples of both local and widespread land subsidence and alluded to the uprising of seabeds with consequent flooding; he further described the silting of rivers that form alluvial plains and deltas" (DSB). His descriptions of the Mediterranean regions, Asia Minor and Egypt are excellent, while those of Gaul, Britain and Greece are weaker (the errors relating to his native country may have been due to his excessive veneration of Homer, whose authority he extended to geography). That Strabo's geography was unknown to the Romans, even to Pliny the Elder, in spite of his expressed wish that it be read by the statesmen and rulers of the Empire, is evidence that it may have been written far from Rome. The work was not generally known until the 5th century, but came to be the standard geographical reference work during the Middle Ages.
This fine copy, from the first Venetian Press, is printed in the elegant de Spira Roman type, in a dark impression. A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY with many deckle edges, and pin holes at head and foot of some outer margins. BSB-Ink. S-595; BMC V,161; Goff S-794; HC 15087*; Pr 4042.