Pausanius. [Greek Title:] Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio Accurata... Leipzig, 1696....

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Pausanius. [Greek Title:] Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio Accurata... Leipzig: Christian Gotze for Thomas Fritsch,                1696.    

First Kühn edition. Bi-lingual edition with Greek and Latin in adjoining columns, with notes at the bottom. Folio. a-c4.p1=[A1], A5, B-5Z4,6A-6T2. [26], 943, [76] pages. Engraved Pegasus vignette on title page, title page in red and black, head- and tail-pieces, decorated initials. Eighteenth century calf, early rebacking, gilt with title on red morocco label, some cover wear including scuffs and chips, catalog number neatly written in pen on half-title, last leaf laid on rear free endpaper, dampstains on endpapers, opening leaves partially stuck together, rear free endpaper stuck to pastedown, few small holes near fore-edge from biopredation, minor foxing, else a very clean copy overall on quite nice paper.

Pausanius (143-176 A.D.) geographer and traveler whose history of Greece is an important source for architecture, local history, religious customs, and topography.

"Without [Pausanias] the ruins of Greece would for the most part be a labyrinth without a clue, a riddle without an answer. His book furnishes the clue to the labyrinth, the answer to many riddles. It will be studied so long as ancient Greece shall continue to engage the attention and awaken the interest of mankind" - Sir James Frazer.

"This is emphatically and justly called the editio optima of Pausanias. It is a very elegant and useful work, containing the most valuable parts of the preceding editions, and having the advantage of being divided into chapters, with the arguments prefixed to each book, and the notes of Xylander and Sylburgius accompanying each page; it also contains the preface of the Hanover and Frankfurt editions: the Greek text is given with great purity by Kuhnius, to which is added his valuable and learned notes... This work is becoming scarce, and copies sell at a high price." -Dibdin, Fourth Edition.  

VD17 39:128725Q. Hoffmann III, 49. Dibdin II, 272. Brunet IV, 455 "edition estimee". BL 17th German P284.