Strabonis Rerum geographicarum libri XVII. Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit, summoque studio & diligentia, ope etiam veterum codicum, emendauit, ac commentariis illustrauit, & secundis curis cumulatè exornauit, quæ nunc primum prodeunt. Adiuncta est etiam Gulielmi Xylandri Augustani Latina versio ab eodem Casaubono recognita. Accessere Fed. Morelli professorum reg. decani, in eundem geographum obseruatiunculae. Additus est rerum insigniorum & notatu digniorum locuples index, accuratus & necessarius, tam geographicus quàm historicus: nec non alius ad Isaaci Casauboni commentarius.
Strabo (64/63 BC–c. 24 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1620
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3040386
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 843, [5], 282, [120] p. ; fol. Running number: 4853. Pagination: [10], 843, [5], 282, [122] p. (i.e. wanting one preliminary leaf, but nothing obvious is missing). With manuscript crossings-out on leaves *2-3. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; double and single blind fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine with dolphin and crown motif, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red burnished edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Strabo (64/63 BC–c. 24 AD) Isaac Casaubon (1559 - 1614) Fédéric Morel (1552-1630) Wilhelm Xylander (1532 - 1576)