Strabone - Strabonos Peri tes geographias biblia 17 (Strabonis de situ orbis libri 17) - 1549

Vintage full parchment binding; smooth spine with a Havana-coloured tag with author and abbreviated title in gold; faded green edges. (30) - 797 - (3) numbered pages, including the cover page, as well as the register with the typographic information on the back of the penultimate unnumbered sheet and the woodcut typographic brand on the back of the last sheet. Text in Greek language and lettering, with Latin translation in round letters, paginated on two columns. Some refined drop caps, decorated with racemes. A few minor marginal annotations, written in pen in Latin in the past. The work includes Strabo’s geographical treatise, previously imprinted "in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri" in 1516. For the print in question, the text transcribed and translated by Guarino da Verona and Gregorio Trifernate has been corrected, as the scholar Graesse tells us, by M. Hopper, with the help of C. Heresbach, H. Gemusaeus, H. Glareanus and J. Hartung. The dedicatory letter, dated 26 August 1549, is followed by a broad thematic index. The Greek historian and geographer Strabo, who arrived in Rome in 45 AD circa, was a pupil of the peripatetic philosopher Xenarchus and the grammarian Tyrannion. His vast geographical treatise in 17 books, of which the seventh arrived to us incomplete, is a fundamental text to know the territories, history and customs of the ancient world; for the composition of the work, Strabo consulted numerous sources, passing on a mine of erudite news about the then known lands. In good condition; minor wear to the binding, to the corners of the plates; some oxidised sheets, due to the quality of the paper. See GRAESSE J. G. T. , "Trésor [. . .] ", Milan 1950, vol. VI, p. 505; ADAMS, S, 1905.