Dictionarium historicvm ac poeticum: omnia gentium, hominum, locorum, fluminum, ac montium antiqua recentioráq; ad sacras ac prophanas historias, poetarumque fabulas intelligendas necessaria vocabula, bono ordine complectens
Geneva: Franciscus Perrinus, 1566. 8vo, ff. [2], 341; title within woodcut border, text in double column; title page defective with loss to bottom margin and top right corner causing loss to woodcut border (but no letterpress); also with neat repair to corners of second leaf (with loss to the ends of 3 lines), and the third through the sixth leaf (with minor loss in the upper corner); otherwise a nice, crisp copy in 19th century full mottled calf, black and red morocco labels on gilt decorated spine. The Preface by Charles Estienne in this edition does not appear in the 1553 first edition. A rare edition, not found in Adams, Schreiber, the French BM-STC or NUC; OCLC finds the Harvard, ISU, Grinnell, and Brigham Young copies only; see Renouard, p. 104-05 for the first edition of 1553. Item #26380
Price: $850.00
