Shelfmark
CS.1436.06
Author
Uniform title
[Description of Greece]
Title
Pausaniae De situ Graeciae libri decem. Tomus prior / recognovit Immanuel Bekkerus.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: De situ Graeciae libri decem
Publication, distribution, etc.
Berolini : Typis et Impensis Ge. Reimeri, 1826.
Physical description
[4], 790 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Text in Greek; title-page, preface and index in Latin.
Note
Includes "Addenda et corrigenda" on p. 789-790.
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library with red initials on the front pastedown.
Provenance
Dark leather front pastedown with a gilt border, bearing a gilt-lettered Porson Prize inscription in Latin noting Richard Porson birth (25 December 1759) and death (25 September 1808), and references Charles Rann Kennedy (Scholar, Trinity College) as recipient, dated 1830.
Provenance
Ms. annotation within the Eton booklabel: "A P 5" in black ink [crossed out in pencil], and "4. 43" in pencil.
Provenance
Ms. annotation in pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf describing the book edition, the Trinity College coat of arms in the binding, and gives biographical details for Charles Rann Kennedy reading "Porson Prizeman 1834 [sic]".
Provenance
Typed letter, signed, loosely inserted, recording the donation from Captain R. Ridgill Trout to Mr. Green, Deputy Librarian of Eton College, dated 4 August 1938.
Binding
19th century brown leather binding; blind-tooled ornamental border and gilt fillet frames on covers; central gilt and brown coat of arms on both boards; blank spine; marbled endpapers; marbled edges.
Subject
Greece Description and travel.
Subject
Greece Antiquities.
Added entry--name
Reimer, Georg Andreas, 1776 - 1842 publisher.
Added entry--name
Bekker, Immanuel, 1785 - 1871 editor.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Kennedy, Charles Rann, 1808 - 1867 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Germany Berlin.
Language code
grc lat
Identifier
B54035