Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/75
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 519: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1478 A.D. [5] DIONYSIUS (Periegetes). Cosmographia; De situ orbis. [Translated by Antonius Beccaria], Roman Letter, 26 long lines to a full page. Woodcut initials. A few words of Greek. Marginalia. Ato, calf (some water stains). Venice, Francis Renner, de Heilbronn, 1478. om TOs: Hain *6227. Pellechet 4294. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. V, p. 195. The above work is Antonius Becharius’ Latin translation of the hexametrical description of the earth, written in Greek, by Dionysius Periegetes, Lybicus or Africanus, towards the latter part of the third century. 1480 A.D. [6] STRABO. Geographia. Roman Letter, 39 long lines to a full page. Capital spaces. A few passages in Greek type. Folio. Fifteenth century binding of wooden boards covered with stamped leather, with brass corner-pieces, and centre-piece on front cover, four clasps, [ Treviso|, Johannes Rubeus, 26th August, 1480. (Sez InLusrraTion, OvERLEAF). £250 Hain *15089. Proctor 6493 (Bodleian copy). No copy in the British Museum Library. <A very fine and clean copy, complete with the two blank leaves. Strabo, the Greek historian and geographer, was born at Amasia, in Cappa- docia, about B.c. 50, and travelled through Greece, Italy, and Asia, endeavouring to obtain the most accurate information with regard to geography, statistics and political conditions of the countries which he visited. His great work in seventeen books contains not only a description of different countries, but the chief particulars of their history, notices of eminent men, and accounts of the manners and customs of the people. The first French translator said that it contained nearly the whole history of knowledge from the time of Homer to that of Augustus. The first book printed by Johannes Rubeus (Giovanni Rossi) of Vercelli. He continued printing at Treviso till 1485, producing, however, no more (as far as is known) than eight books.
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