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Strabone - Strabone - Geographical commentaries, 1523. Basel, Curion, 1523. In folio. Old calf binding on sticks. Spine with 4 raised bands. Covers with cold decoration. Beautiful woodcut borders on both the frontispiece and the second leaf. Initial cap, friezes and headers. Printer's mark at the end. Light browning, pen marks and spine of the binding redone. First edition of the sixteenth century and first essay of a critical edition of Strabo (see Graesse VI, 506).