[Rarebooks] FS: Imprtant edition of Strabo's work on ancient geography. Basel: 1571

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(CARTOGRAPHY) Strabo. RERUM GEOGRAPHICUM LIBRI SEPTEMDECIM. A Guilielmo 
Xylandro Augustano Magna Cura Recogniti... Basel: Ex Officina Henricpetrina. 
(1571). Folio. (116),977,(3)pp. Extensive index at front. With the final leaf blank 
except for the printer’s device on the verso. Double column text, Greek & 
Latin. Title in Greek & Latin, with a large woodcut printer’s device. Illustrated 
with 27 double-page woodcut maps by Muenster (including 3 repeats) and 7 
smaller woodcut maps in the text. Cont. roll-tooled paneled pigskin, stamped with 
the initials “M.H.F.” and dated “1580.” Some old marginal water stains, but a 
very attractive copy overall in its original state.     $15,000.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
Important edition for the fine maps of Strabo’s (c. 63 B.C.) GEOGRAPHY, the 
first attempt to collect all the geographical knowledge at the time attainable. 
Translated and edited by Wilhelm Xylander (1532-1576). Adams S1907.

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