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Dionysiou Oikoumenes periegesis = Dionysii Orbis descriptio : commentario critico & geographico (in quo controversiae pleraeque quae in veteri geographia occurrunt explicantur, & obscura plurima elucidantur) ac tabulis illustrata

Dionysius, Periegetes, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL), Hill, William, 1619-1667, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner · 1658 · Londini : Excudebat R. Daniel, impensis Humphredi Robinson, in Comoterio Divi Pauli ad insigne trium Columbarum · 29 pictures

This 1658 London edition of Dionysius Periegetes' ancient Greek geographical poem is a scholarly work, edited with commentary and maps by William Hill for classical scholars and readers of ancient geography. The pictures are engraved maps of Europe, Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, with dense place-name lettering, sea outlines and decorative cartouches that a designer could draw on for antique map styling.

Geography · Geography -- ancient

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