Veteris Graeciae Descriptio

Florence: L. Torrentino, 1551. CONTEMPORARY LACE-CASED INTERIM VELLUM BINDING (soiled), 17th-century manuscript spine title, contemporary manuscript-lettered title on the bottom edge, evidence of four pigskin ties, edges gauffered in blind; spine lining from a medieval vellum manuscript.

            A REMARKABLE COPY PRESERVED IN A WHOLLY UNREMARKABLE TEMPORARY BINDING. This example is large, substantially taller and wider than, for instance, Jean Grolier's on ordinary - median folio - paper, measuring 350 x 250 mm. and bound in contemporary morocco.
           Pausanias' 2nd-century C.E. Greek travelogue of Greece records local history, legends, customs and superstitions. His firsthand observations on temples, monuments and ruins remain essential for archeologists today.
          First Edition of the first complete translation into any language, which remained the standard in Latin into the 19th century. This version, by Romolo Amaseo (1489-1552), a leading humanist, was completed in 1547.
           I have found one large-paper copy in U.S. collections (Harvard). In good condition (light stains to the outer margins, foxing to some sheets in twelve quires).
¶Mortimer, Italian 364 (large paper 400 x 250 x 47 mm., ordinary paper & 350 x 230 x 31 mm.; "Second edition" incorrectly repeating Moreni's error); Parks, "Pausanias" in Catalogus translationum II: 215-20; Hoffmann, Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesammten Litteratur der Griechen III: 50; Moreni, Annali della tipografia...di Lorenzo Torrentino 150-2,XIV (the 1547 edition is a ghost); EDIT 16 CNCE 34583.