Lot 238
Geography.- Dionysius Periegetes. De situ orbis, second separate edition, Venice, Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1478.
Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000
Description
Geography.- Dionysius Periegetes. De situ orbis, translated by Antonius Beccaria, collation: a-c8 d e6, 36 ff., 26 lines, Roman type, table at end double column, headlines 4-line incipit printed in red, woodcut white on black ground decorative initials, water-stained, foxed, lightly browned, modern binding using old vellum, small 4to (186 x 140mm.), Venice, Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1478.
⁂ Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, translated by the Veronese humanist Beccaria.
Literature: BMC V, 195; Goff D-254; H *6227; Bod-inc D-100; BSB-Ink D-178; GW 8427; ISTC id00254000.
Description
Geography.- Dionysius Periegetes. De situ orbis, translated by Antonius Beccaria, collation: a-c8 d e6, 36 ff., 26 lines, Roman type, table at end double column, headlines 4-line incipit printed in red, woodcut white on black ground decorative initials, water-stained, foxed, lightly browned, modern binding using old vellum, small 4to (186 x 140mm.), Venice, Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, 1478.
⁂ Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, translated by the Veronese humanist Beccaria.
Literature: BMC V, 195; Goff D-254; H *6227; Bod-inc D-100; BSB-Ink D-178; GW 8427; ISTC id00254000.
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