[ Pausaniou tes Hellados periegesis], hoc est, Pausaniae accurata Graeciae descriptio
Subtitle: qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur
By: a Guilielmo Xylandro Augustano diligenter recognita, & ab innumeris mendis repurgata ; accesserunt annotationes, quae a G. Xylandro paulo ante obitum inchoatae, nunc vero a Frid. Sylb. continuatae, magnaq[ue] accessione locupletatae, non exiguum ad genuinam Pausaniae lectionem momentum afferunt ; addita etiam doctissima Romuli Amasaei versio, a plurimis & ipsa mendis vindicata, breuibusque notatiunculis illustrata : appendice quoq[ue] aucta est haec Pausaniae ..., & aliis, quae vndecima ab hinc pagina prolixius recensentur ; cum tribus rerum & verborum indicibus amplissimis.
Contributors: Amaseo, Romolo Quirino, 1489-1552.; Xylander, Wilhelm, 1532-1576.; Sylburg, Friedrich, 1536-1596; Wechel, Andreas, Heirs of; Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480-ca. 1533.; Ross, John Leith, of Arnage and Bourtie, 1777-1839 (bookplate).; British Museum
Publisher: Apud haeredes Andreae Wecheli
Published: 1583
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: grc
Subjects: Greece -- Antiquities.
Other titles: Pausaniae accurata Graeciae descriptio; Graeciae descriptio; Pausaniae De veteris Graeciae regionibus commentarii luculentissimi.; De veteris Graeciae regionibus commentarii luculentissimi.
Notes: Signatures: vol. I: *6, A-Z6, Aa-Hh6, Ii-Qq4, Aa-Ee6, FF-GG4; vol. II: *6, A-Z6, Aa-Bb6, Cc-Dd4, Ee6.

Volume I: [12], 357, [1] p., columns 359-507, p. 508, [1-76]; vol. II: [12], 302 p., columns 303-352, [1] p.

Volume II has special t.p.: Pausaniae De veteris Graeciae regionibus commentarii luculentissimi.

Printer's device on t.p. and p. [1] at end of v.2.

Includes indexes.

Large metal-cut Greek initials ascribed to Geoffroy Tory and the school associated with his name.  Cf. Handbook of Renaissance ornament.

Fisher E-10 copy: Contemporary blind stamped binding, sewn on 5 raised double bands; full bound tawed pigskin over wooden boards bevelled on the inside edges; red text-block edges; with remains of clasps.  With the bookstamp of the British Museum, and the British Museum duplicate stamp, 1818; ex libris Joannis L. Ross, 1819.  With the armorial bookplate of John Leith Ross of Arnage and Bourtie [Franks, 25540].