April 1736 (1 results)

Full Vellum. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Full vellum with hand written title and date. All edges colored black. General light soiling and spine is a little darkened as is not unusual for books this age. frontispiece engraving is glued to front free endpage. Endsheets appear original. Title in red and black. 2nd and 3rd leaf nearly detached, spine webbing visible in first couple of gutters. Pagination: frontis, titlepage, [vi], [4], [1]-210, 203-216, + Appendix 206pp. Page 207 missnumbered 107. At page 211 is numbered 203 and starts count again there. The appendix has page 57 misnumbered as 56, 144 is misnumbered 341, 183 is misnumbered 283, 192 is misnumbered 292. Collated and complete. Rare copy of this first edition. Johann Albert Fabricius (November 11, 1668 - April 30, 1736), was a German classical scholar and bibliographer. Fabricius is credited with 128 books, but very many of them were only books which he had edited. One of the most famed and laborious of these is the Bibliotheca Latina (1697). The divisions of the compilation are -- the writers to the time of Tiberius; then to the time of the Antonines; and thirdly, to the decay of the Latin language; a fourth gives fragments from old authors, and chapters on early Christian literature. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…