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CELLARIUS, Christopher (1638-1707). Geographica antiqua in compendium redacta. Rome: 1774. 2° (420 x 300mm). Engraved double-page title, dedication, 35 maps and 2 plates. (?Lacking frontispiece, light spotting and staining throughout, heavier with some light creasing to last map of the Americas.) Contemporary quarter roan (extremities rubbed, spine scraped and worn). Provenance: Monsignor Giambrocono (early ink inscription) -- early ink stamp to verso of last map.
FIRST FOLIO EDITION WITH THE MAPS ENGRAVED IN A LARGER SCALE. Cellarius, professor of classics at Halle University, was a prolific author, and over 25 editions of his two principal geographical works, Notitia Orbis Antiqui, first published in Leipzig, 1701-06, and the present work, first published in Leipzig in 1686, are known. Brunet I, 1724; Graesse II, 99.
FIRST FOLIO EDITION WITH THE MAPS ENGRAVED IN A LARGER SCALE. Cellarius, professor of classics at Halle University, was a prolific author, and over 25 editions of his two principal geographical works, Notitia Orbis Antiqui, first published in Leipzig, 1701-06, and the present work, first published in Leipzig in 1686, are known. Brunet I, 1724; Graesse II, 99.