Geographiam multos scripsisse nouimus Pater Beatissime Paule II.
Strabo.
Bussi, Giovanni Andrea,1417-1475.
Guarino,Veronese,1374-1460.
Tifernate, Gregorio,1414-approximately 1462.
Wendelin,of Speier,-1477?,printer.
Alchorne, Stanesby,-1800,former owner.StEdNL
Evans, R. H.(Robert Harding),1777-1857,bookseller.StEdNL
Payne, Roger,1739-1797,binder.StEdNL
[Venice : Vindelinus de Spira],
anno Domini. M.CCCC.Lxxii. [1472]
Title from opening line of text.
Place and printer from ISTC. Imprint date from colophon.
Translated by Guarinus Veronensis and Gregorius Tifernas; edited by Joannes Andreas, Bishop of Aleria. Authorities differ as to which portions of the text were translated by Guarinus and which by Gregorius; the general opinion seems to be that Guarinus left the last seven books untranslated and that these were done by Gregorius, as indicated in the terminal table--Lilly Lib., First 25 years of printing.
Letter from the editor to Pope Paul II: p. [3-6].
Dedicatory pref. from Guarinus to Jacobus Antonius Marcellus: p. [6-7]. This pref. was originally dedicated to Pope Nicholas V and dated Ferrara, 1458.
Table and verse (seven hendecasyllabics) by Raphael Zovenzonius addressed to Jacobus Zenus, Bishop of Padua: p. [435].
Deriving from Sweynheym and Pannartz's Rome edition, [1469], IC.17131--BM 15th cent.
Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ q-s¹⁰ t⁸ v⁸ ( -v6) x-y¹⁰ z⁸ et⁸].
First and last leaves blank.
51 lines. Types: 110R², 110 Gk. Capital spaces with guide-letters; also some spaces for Greek.
Initials supplied in red or blue.
Hain-Copinger,
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
BN cat. des incun.,
Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink
GW
ISTC
Klebs
IBP
Sajó-Soltész
Madsen
Proctor
Lilly Lib. First 25 years of printing,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Armorial bookplate of Stanesby Alchorne Tower of London on front pastedown. Lot 136 in Catalogue of a portion of the valuable library of the late Stanesby Alchorne, Esq which was old by R. H. Evans, London, 22 May 1813. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
Late 18th-century diced russia with neo-classical style tooling on front and back boards and spine by Roger Payne. Large central gilt Bibliotheca Advocatorum stamp on front and back boards.
Geography
Geography, Ancient
Italy Venice.