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Description:
Strabo (64 or 63 BC-c. 24 AD) Geographicorum Commentarios. Basel: Valentinus Curio, 1523. Folio, edited by Conrad Heresbach (1496-1576),illustrated with a variety of ornamental woodcut borders, initials, and vignettes, including a large woodcut title border by Jacob Faber, two additional woodcut page borders, numerous woodcut head-pieces, large woodcut initials by Holbein, and woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf; bound in Italian tight-backed parchment over boards, likely 18th century, ex libris Alexander Ransom, with his armorial bookplate pasted inside the front board, 12 x 7 3/4 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
[pi]4, Aa6, Bb8, a-z6, A-Z6, &8.
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