ΣΤΡΑΒΩΝΟΣ ΓΕΩΡΑΦΙΚΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΟΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΚΑ – STRABONIS RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM LIBRI SEPTEM DECA, A GUILIELMO XYLANDRO… Basileae HenricPetri 1571 Third edition, in Greek and Latin, of the most famous work of ancient geography. FOLIO, 32x23cm. Full contemporary vellum, upper joint starting, joints partly fixed, otherwise an impressive copy, clean and bright. Complete: 977p., Greek and Latin text on double column, woodcut device on title, 27 double page geographical maps, 7 more smaller maps in text (34 maps in total) and woodcut initials, overall almost fine condition. The best edition of Strabo ever printed. It had been edited and annotated by Xylander, the best German classical scholar of his time who provided also a much improved Latin tradition of the Greek original. It is the only edition of Strabo which includes thirty four (34) maps of the outmost value, as they have been prepared especially for this edition and have never been reprinted. The 27 double page maps (approx. 36x30cm each) follow the Ptolemaic tradition, as it had been crystallized, in the middle of 16th century, by Sebastian Munster and form a unique Ptolemaic Atlas of the Greek world. The seven (7) smaller maps, of different Greek islands (Crete, Rhodes, Lesvos, Evia, Kefalonia), are called modern maps and they are original contemporary 16th century drawings with, still unidentified, sources. They form a kind of Greek isolario and includes a map of CYPRUS, one of the earlier modern map of the island. Very Rare.