Shelfmark
Ie8.3.05 - Ie8.3.06
Author
Uniform title
[Geography. Latin & Greek.]
Title
Strabonis Rerum geographicarum libri XVII. Græce et Latine, : cum variorum, præcipue Casauboni, animadversionibus, juxta editionem Amstelodamensem. / Codicum mss. collationem, annotationes, et tabulas geographicas adjecit Thomas Falconer, olim e Collegio Ænei Nasi, Oxon. Subjiciuntur Chrestomathiæ, Græce et Latine. Tom. I [- II]..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Rerum geographicarum libri XVII
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Rerum geographicarurm libri septendecim
Varying form of title
Chrestomathiae, Graece et Latine
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxonii: : E Typographeo Clarendoniano., MDCCCVII. [1807]
Physical description
2 v. : ill., maps (engravings) ; 45 cm (Fol.)
Language
Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns; commentary in Latin.
Note
Includes half-titles.
Note
Etched title-page vignettes (Clarendon Building), signed: Drawn by H. Neill Engraved by Jas. Storer.
Note
Pagination: t.1: [4], viii, 22, [2], 643, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates (9 folded) -- t.2: [5], 648-1333, [85] p., [8] leaves of plates (6 folded).
Note
Signatures: t.1: pi² a⁴ b-g² B-Z² Aa-Zz² 3A-8A² -- t.2: 8B-15N² *A-*X² (-*X2).
Note
Text said to be based on materials left by Thomas Falconer's uncle, Thomas Falconer (1738-1792) (cf. ODNB).
Note
The plates consist chiefly of folded maps, as listed on leaf g2 recto (where they are assigned the numbers I-XVII, with two plates for number I). Engravers include Guillaume de la Haye and Thomas Conder.
Note
According to Lowndes, large paper copies were available.
Citation/references note
Lowndes, IV, p. 1749.
Provenance
Ms. note on front flyleaf of v.1: "To Eton College Library from the delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford".
Binding
19th-century polished calfskin over ?millboards. Covers decorated with triple gilt fillets to form a border; blind roll on board edges. Spine with six raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets and titling over light brown labels. Textblock rounded and sprinkled brown. Endpapers of undecorated paper; three flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock, two at the lower end (v.1) two at both ends (v.2).
Subject
Strabo Geography.
Subject
Geography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Classical geography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Europe Geography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mediterranean Region Geography Early works to 1800.
Subject
Mediterranean Region Historical geography Maps Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Falconer, Thomas, 1772 - 1839 editor.
Added entry--name
Falconer, Thomas, 1772 - 1839 editor.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Storer, James (), 1771 - 1853 engraver.
Added entry--name
Haye, G. de la engraver.
Added entry--name
Conder, Thomas, 1746 or 1747 - 1831 engraver.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
lat grc grc
Identifier
B52880