1688 GREEK Periegetes Geography Eustathius Atlas MAPS Orbis Greece Byzantine

Dionysius Periegetes was an ancient Greek geographer believed to have lived sometime in the 2^nd or 3^rd-centuries. He is remembered primarily for his description of the known world, believed to be one of the earliest written world geographies. In the 12^th-century, Byzantine historian Eustathius of Thessalonica wrote a commentary on Dionysius’s ‘Orbis Descriptio’ who included numerous excerpts from other ancient Greek geographers and historians.

This 1688 Greek and Latin edition was collected and edited by William Hill who included numerous folding maps. Two of the maps are particularly desirable – the map of all of Europe and the map of Italy and the Greek Islands.

Item number: #24948

Price: $995

DIONYSIUS Perigetes

Dionysi'ou oi'koume'nēs periē'gēsis, meta' tōñ Eu'stathi'ou 'ypomnēma'tōn. Dionysii orbis descriptio, annotationibus Eustathii & Henr. Stephani, necnon Guilielmi Hill commentario critico & geographico ac tabulis illustrata

Londini: typis M. Clark,… 1688.

Details:

·       Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1 tome

o   “Orbis” – [13], x, [1], 208, [46]

o   “Grammaticarum” – [10], 368

§  Includes separate, dated title page

o   Includes 7 folding maps!

·       Provenance:

o   Stamp – Rev. W. C. Johannes

o   Handwritten – A. Wood

·       Language: Greek / Latin

·       Binding: Leather; tight and secure

·       Size: ~7.75in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

·       Very rare and desirable

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