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Dionysius Periegetes. Tes palai kai tes nyn oikumenes periegesis (greek letters) sive Dionysii Geographia emendata et locupletata, additione scilicet geographiae hodiernae graeco carmine pariter donatae (...) ab Edv(ardus) Wells.

With engr. title vignette and 16 engr. folding maps. 4 leaves, 116, (4) pp., . 8vo. Contemp. calf, spine gilt with label. – Oxonii (Oxford), Sheldon, 1704.

Bilingual (Greek-Latin) edition of Dionysius’ of Alexandria „Periegesis tes oikumenes“ (2nd century A.D.), a description of the ancient world in 1186 hexameters. Publisher and translator is the English theologian and geographer Edward Wells (1667-1727). Many of the 16 maps are pairs showing the ancient and the contemporary state of the geographical knowledge. – Hoffmann II, 104; Schweiger I, 102; Ebert 6203. – Minor browning throughout. A good to very good copy. – Best.-Nr. 27189