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Strabo.
Gr.
Lat. Casauboni.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 118, no. 260, as above.
STRABO.
Strabonis Rervm Geographicarvm Libri XVII. Isaacvs Casavbonvs recensuit, summoque studio & diligentia, ope etiam veterum codicum, emendauit, ac Commentariis illustrauit, & secundis curis
cumulatè exornauit, quæ nunc primum prodeunt. Adiuncta est etiam Gvlielmi Xylandri Augustani
Latina versio ab eodem Casaubono recognita. Accessere Fed. Morelli Professorum Reg. Decani, in eundem Geographum Obseruatiunculæ. Additus est rerum insigniorum
& notatu digniorum locuples Index, accuratus & necessarius, tam Geographicus quàm Historicus: nec non alius ad Isaaci Casavboni commentarios.
Lutetiæ Parisiorum,
Typis Regiis.
m. dcxx
. Cvm Privilegio Regis Christianissimi. [1620.]
G87 .S87 1620
Folio. 631 leaves, title-page printed in black and red, and an engraved device with the arms of Paris,
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns, separate half-title, signatures and pagination for the
Commentarivs et Castigationes of Isaac Casaubon.
Brunet IV, 351.
Graesse VI, 505.
Jefferson ordered a copy of an earlier edition from the catalogue of Van Damme of Amsterdam in March 1788 when he was in Paris.
Strabo, born c. 63 B.C., Greek geographer and historian. The first edition of his
Geography, itself the first attempt to collect all obtainable knowledge of the known world, was published by Aldus in 1516.
Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614, Swiss (naturalized English) scholar. His edition of Strabo, first published in 1587, remained a standard work
for a number of years.
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Echard’s classical geographical dictionary.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 9, as above.
The Classical Geographical Dictionary. Containing I. The Antient and Modern Names of all the Kingdoms, Provinces, Cities,
Towns, Mountains, Capes, Islands, Peninsulas, Lakes, Seas, Gulphs, Streights and Rivers in Europe, Asia and Africa. II. An
Historical and Geographical Account of the most Remarkable Places mention’d by the Classicks, Greek and Roman. Fitted for
the Use of Schools, and very Necessary for a right Understanding of the best Antient Authors. Revised, with a Recommendatory
Preface, by Laurence Echard, A. M. author of the Gazetteer.
London: Printed for
J. Tonson,
1715.
G101 .E16 1715
First Edition. 12mo. 102 leaves, the first with the publisher’s advertisement on the verso, recto blank; printed in double columns;
the preface dated from Louth in Lincolnshire, May 17, 1715.
Not in Lowndes.
Watt I, 328.
Laurence Echard, 1670?-1730, English historian, a member of the Society of Antiquaries, was the author of a modern gazetteer. The
Classical Geographical Dictionary was compiled under his direction by “an able Hand, in whose Care and Experience I cou’d confide. Not that I did entirely
depend upon it; but concerted with him the Method that was to be prosecuted, and from Time to Time perused his MS. and examin’d
how he had pursu’d it . . .” Echard in the Preface quotes the letter, signed N. N., S. J., which requests him to undertake
the work.
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