Live auction - Lot 834

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Geographicorum lib. XVII. Olim, ut putatur, à Guarino Veronensi ac Gregorio Trifernate latinitate donati, iam denuo à Conrado Heresbachio [...] ad fidem graeci exemplaris, authorumq[ue], qui huc facere videbantur, recogniti, ac plerisq[ue] locis deintegro versi. Item, Epitomae eorundem decem & septem de Geographia librorum, num primum de graeco sermone in latinum conversae, Hieronymo Gemusaeo [...] interprete.

Basel, J. Walder, 1539

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Folio: [86 (of 88)]-549-[25] pp. (a2 lacking; dampstaining throughout, some large and a few with mould spots in the end, marg. wormholes, occ. ink staining).

Old vellum, spine titled in ink with raised bands (upper part of spine lacking, flyleaves dampstained).

Latin trsl. by Guarino da Verona and Gregorio Tifernate edited by the Rhineland reformer Conrad Heresbach (1496-1576). The translation by the same was first published in 1523. Illustrated with a woodcut border on title (orn. portico), sm. ornamental initials and some other large ones depicting children, some friezes and printer's mark on title and verso of last leaf.
Ref. VD16 ZV-24753. - Adams S-1904. - Hoffmann III:645. - STC German p. 834 (ed. Basel, 1549).
Joined: Poggio - Opera, collatione emendatorum exemplarium recognita, quorum elenchum versa haec pagina enumerabit [...]. Basel, H. Petrus, August 1538. Folio: [12]-491-[1] pp. (lacking pp. 35-36 & 153-154 & 421-490; marg. dampstaining, large tear with lack of text pp. 49-50, upper part of pp. 153-154 lacking, marg. tear in pp. 151-152, occ. marg. soiling, sl. foxing to some pp., long tear to last f. strengthened). Contemp. calf, covers ruled with blind fillets, the inner with flower tools in corners, spine with raised bands (scratches, bits of leather missing at lower cover, lower part of spine split, head lacking, flyleaves missing). Works edited by Heinrich Bebel. Ref. VD16 P-3858. - Adams P-1709. - STC German p. 144. - Not in Machiels. Prov. Ms. marginalia. - Mod. bookpl. (2 works)

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Lot 834

Geographicorum lib. XVII. Olim, ut putatur, à Guarino Veronensi ac Gregorio Trifernate latinitate donati, iam denuo à Conrado Heresbachio [...] ad fidem graeci exemplaris, authorumq[ue], qui huc facere videbantur, recogniti, ac plerisq[ue] locis deintegro versi. Item, Epitomae eorundem decem & septem de Geographia librorum, num primum de graeco sermone in latinum conversae, Hieronymo Gemusaeo [...] interprete.

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