Arrianus, Flavius, and others. Periplus. Plutarchus, de Fluminibus & Montibus. Strabonis, Epitome. [Edited by S. Galenius]. Basel: Froben and Episcopius 1533
Nineteenth-century paste-paper boards, a bit rubbed, [16], 205, [3] pp. , Complete with the final leaf, which has a blank recto and the woodcut device of Froben on the verso. Title-page in Latin and Greek, text entirely in Greek. Decorative woodcut headbands and historiated initials.
Small, light marginal dampstain at top edge near gutter margin, extending through half of the booth. Some ink marginalia in contemporary hand. A very good copy, The editor, Sigismundus Gelenius (c. 1498-1554) of Prague, was a philologist and friend of Erasmus, who produced a number of Greek texts and Latin translations for Froben. This is a scarce book. OCLC lists eleven copies worldwide, and there are no auction records listed by American Book Prices Current in the last thirty years, Adams A-2014. Dibdin, 4th edition, I, 330. See Bietenholz, Contemporaries of Erasmus.
$US4000
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