[Rarebooks] FS: CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY OF COSMAS

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Cosmas, Indicopleustes. McCrindle, John W., ed. THE CHRISTIAN 
TOPOGRAPHY OF COSMAS, AN EGYPTIAN MONK (KOSMA AIGYPTIOU MONACHOU 
CHRISTIANIKE TOPOGRAPHIA). London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 
1897. xii, xxvii, 398, 16 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w plates. 8vo. Original 
blue cloth stamped in blind, gilt vignette of ship on front board, 
spine ruled in blind, gilt titles, yellow endpapers (hardback). 
Bibliotheca Geographica 21. Stevenson 225. Phillips 61, 29. Oaten 
265. First edition. Hakluyt Society, First series: No. 98.

Cosmas "attacks the Ptolemaic system in favour of various fantastic 
astronomical doctrines intended to harmonize with a literal 
understanding of the Bible. The chief value of the book lies in its 
geographical information (esp. on Sri Lanka) and its witness to the 
spread of the Christian Church at his time. In exegesis Cosmas 
follows Theodore of Mopsuestia; he was probably a Nestorian,"(Oxford 
Dictionary of the Christian Church, 1997, p. 421). Scarce. Spine 
sunned, head of spine rubbed, small institutional bookplate to front 
pastedown, owner's nautical bookplate opposite; foxing mainly to 
endpapers, otherwise a very good mostly unopened (uncut) copy. 
[33700] $875.00

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Kaaterskill Books
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