STEPHANUS (BYZANTINUS)
Peri Poleon / De Urbibus ["Of Cities": Fragments of Stephanus' work of geography]. Translated from Greek into Latin and annotated by Thomas de Pinedo Lusitanus.
FIRST EDITION. Title in Greek and Latin. On title, pastoral scene, above which Hebrew words: HaTovim mikol Bakharti (“the best of all I chose.”) The Epistola Dedicatoria also contains Hebrew quote from Job 31:26-27. Text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns, with Latin footnotes.
pp. (20), 800, (84). Browned. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum over wooden boards, worn. Folio.
Amsterdam: Jacobi de Jonge 1678
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Peri Poleon / De Urbibus ["Of Cities": Fragments of Stephanus' work of geography]. Translated from Greek into Latin and annotated by Thomas de Pinedo Lusitanus.
FIRST EDITION. Title in Greek and Latin. On title, pastoral scene, above which Hebrew words: HaTovim mikol Bakharti (“the best of all I chose.”) The Epistola Dedicatoria also contains Hebrew quote from Job 31:26-27. Text in Greek and Latin in parallel columns, with Latin footnotes.
pp. (20), 800, (84). Browned. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum over wooden boards, worn. Folio.
Amsterdam: Jacobi de Jonge 1678
