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'The newly discovered lands in the West' ... one of the earliest mentions of America (1508)

PERIEGETES, Dionysius.
Situs orbis Dionysij Ruffo avieno interprete.

Roman type. 28 lines to a page.

Roman type. 28 lines to a page.

Roman type. 28 lines to a page.



Vienna, Johann Winterberger, 1508. 4to. 19th-century red morocco with triple gilt lines along the edges, spine gilt in compartments with the title lettered in gold in the second compartment, inner dentelles, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (EMILE ADUSSELLE). Roman type. 28 lines to a page. [26] ll.

Very rare first and only edition of the translation/adaptation in 1.393 Latin verses by Avienus of the original Greek 'Description of the inhabited earth' by Dionysius Periegetes, as edited by Johannes Cuspinianus. It is also the first separately published edition of Avienus's Latin translation.
Our book was printed by the first printer working in Vienna known by name: Johannes Winterburger (+ 1519). Winterburger came to Vienna around 1492. The humanists Konrad Celtis, Johann Vitez, as well as our Cuspinian, all working at Vienna at the time, admired his books and regularly contributed to them.

Washed. Very good copy of this rare work, some pages with contemporary annotations in a Humanistic cursive hand.
Alden & Landis 508/2; BMC STC German, p. 244; Index Aurel. 154.257 (XII, p. 220); JCB, Add., p. 3; Sabin 20209; VD16, 1986.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Americana  Austria  Geography  Greek & Latin  Poetry 

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