[Rarebooks] FS: Strabo's 1571 atlas w/27 double-page maps, and dated binding.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(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.    $12,500.00 (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. This is the first edition to be translated and edited by Wilhelm Xylander (1532-1576). Adams S1907.

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