This work was originally compiled by the Greek geographer Strabo (c.63 BC – c.21 AD) who travelled greatly throughout the then known world. This work, his only surviving text, was in 17 volumes and was not finished at the time of his death. Known as the ‘Geographia’ it was first published in 1469 with many later editions. It was translated into Latin by Guilelmo Xylandro and here published by Henri Petri in Basle. It contains parallel texts in Greek and Latin. As the publisher of Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’ including Sebastian Munster’s woodblock maps it was a natural extension to publish Strabo’s own text utilising the same maps. The work includes an attractive title page, catalogue and extensive index. This is one of the most important treatises on geography being one of the first to attempt to comprehensively cover the known world describing its topography along with its political, historical and philosophical background. The work includes duplicate maps of Greece and three of the Asian maps as published. Provenance: Jesuit College of Tornac, southern France, manuscript inscription on the title page; bookplate of F.F. Praed. de Woodchester pasted inside front cover; Clive A. Burden Ltd. 1970s; private English collection. Adams (1967) S-1907; Graesse (1922) VI, 505; Nordenskiold Collection (1979) II 287; Nordenskiold (1889) p. 30; Phillips (1909-) 3390; Shirley (2004) G.STR-1a.