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EDITIO PRINCEPS, "REMARKABLE FOR THE BEAUTY OF ITS EXECUTION" (BERNARD). The ancient Antonine Itinerary lists over two hundred fifty land and sea routes of the Roman Empire in c. 300 C.E. - some 53,000 miles - from Samsat to Mauritania and Hadrian's Wall to Aswan. Contemporary soldiers, diplomats, pilgrims, traders, scoundrels and refugees consulted it for travel, medieval cartographers for maps and modern scholars to study networks. GEOFFROY TORY EDITED THE TEXT from a manuscript of Christophe de Longueil (1480-1522). The book is "undoubtedly the tiniest production of Henri Estienne's press" (Schreiber). A fine copy, canceled early signatures of Angelus Maria ?Bonati (with a few annotations), Franciscus Fogaroli and Antonius Maria Rossenius (Lyon); from the libraries of C.A. Walckenaer (1771-1852; doublure), Ambroise Firmin-Didot (Catalogue (1878) 659, bookplate), and Thos. Brooke (1830-1908, bookplate). Maas & Ruths, "Road Connectivity and the Structure of Ancient Empires" in Highways.and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World edd. Alcock et al. 255-64; Bernard, Tory 5-6; Mortimer, French 326 (with the woodcut map known in one or two other examples); Renouard, Annales.des Estienne 12,14; Schreiber, The Estiennes 15. Richly gilt red morocco (Simier; rubbed), dots, fronds, foliage and lettering on the spine, gilt turn-ins, BLUE SILK DOUBLURES - one gilt-lettered C.A. WALCKENAER, blue silk free endleaves, all edges gilt. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 11281
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