Strabonis rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII. Accedunt huic editioni, ad Casaubonianam III expressae, ...Subjiciuntur. Chrestomathiae Graec. & Lt.

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Amstelaedami: Joannem Wolters, 1707. Bound in 2 volumes. Folio. Original full old polished calf (skilfully rebacked). Marbled end-papers. (40, 678, 679-1329, 93pp.). With full-page additional illustrated title-page, and title-vignette printed in red and black ink. Heraldic bookplate in both volumes. Parallel text in Greek and Latin in double-column. Previous owners name on front end-papers. NOTE: The influential Greek geographer, Strabo's enormous Geography, studied under both Aristotelian and Stoic teachers. He promulgated the theory that the torrid zone of the spherical globe was occupied by an ocean which divided his continent from another antipodal on in the Southern Hemisphere. The work represents the classical world's most significant contribution to the science of geography.