Arrianus and Hanno, Periplus, Basel, 1533, contemporary limp vellum, Pierre Gaud's copy

Property from the Loverdos Collection

Flavius Arrianus, Hanno, Plutarch and Strabo

Περιπλους Ευξινου ποντου... Arriani & Hannonis periplus. Plutarchus de fluminibus & montibus. Strabonis epitome [edited by Sigismund Gelenius]. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius), 1533

4to (202 x 137mm.), text in Greek, woodcut device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials and headpieces, manuscript annotations, contemporary limp vellum, stubs of two pairs of ties, occasional light foxing, quire y slightly browned, stain on flyleaf, head of spine defective

EDITIO PRINCEPS. Several sections have extensive manuscript annotations which are most likely in the hand of Pierre Gaud.

LITERATURE

VD16 A 3798

PROVENANCE

Pierre Gaud of Geneva, booklabel pasted to food of second leaf with date 1831, and bookplate in Greek pasted to verso of title-page