ΣΚΥΜΝΟΣ Ο ΧΙΟΣ/ΔΙΚΑΙΑΡΧΟΣ/ΣΚΥΛΑΞ/ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΣ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΑΣ,SKYMNOS OF CHIOS /Letronne M.:Fragments des poemes Geographiques de Scymnus de Chio,et du faux Dicearque restitues d après un manuscript de la Bibliotheque Royale…,observations critiques sur ces fragments,sur Skylax,Marcien d Heraclee,Isidore de Harax, le stadiasme de Mediterranee …petits Geographes Grecs. Paris 1840. First critical edition of all the small Greek ancient geographers (Geographi Graeci Minoris).In 8vo, contemporary leather over boards,complete :half title, title,[15] 443p,text clean and bright,overall in very good condition. Although some first fragments of ancient Greek geographers have been published since the 16th century,as the peripli of Arrianus and Hannon,later a fragment attributed then at Marcianus of Heraclia and after at Scymnus of Chios,a fragment of Dicearchus and the periplus of Skylax,the effort for a critical edition of several ancient Greek small geographical treatises continue over the centuries without big success.Little by little more fragments had appeared as a periplus of Mediterranean and two anonymous peripli of the Euxine.The discovery in early 19th century of a new manuscript with many fragments of ancient Greek geographers,some unknown,made Letronne,a famous French Hellenist to prepare a first complete critical edition of all the survived fragments of ancient geographers.First part of the book is the critical presentation of the several works,text of sources in the original Greek Chapter one,a hundred pages deal with the geographical parts [big and small] then still attributed to Scymnus of Chio (some time later,in 19th century, Maenecke will prove that these fragments can not be of Scymnos and will remain since then known as Pseudo-Scymnos fragments).The second chapter deals with the fragments of Dicearchus,the third analyzes the famous periplous of Scylax.The fourth presents a deep analysis of the periplous of Marcianus of Heraclia and Letronne published after, for first time new fragments,found in the newly discovered manuscript, as well as a complete version of the Mediterranean periplous (σταδιασμός Μεσογείου). The second part of the book consists of the publication of the original Greek text of all fragments and its Latin translation.The reconstitution and scientific critical examination of the puzzle of ancient Greek geographers took centuries,with continuous additions of new discoveries.First edition of some fragments of ancient Greek geographers and first critical edition of all the survived texts of the small ancient Greek geographers.