Curio Valentinus Valentin (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Valentin Curio, Basle [Basel], 1522
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerOther. Sexto, aa-hh6, ii1, ii1, ii3-ii6, kk-mm6. In Fair condition. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, front cover reads in ink: "Dictiones Latinae Graecis Expositae." Remnants of paper library label to spine. Vellum with significant staining and rubbing. Ties lacking. Front free endpaper with book plate. Remnants of non-archiva…l tape to first two front free end papers. Entire textblock with wear to lower fore corner, most severe along beginning and end of text block. Provenance tipped onto rear pastedown. Scattered but consistent Greek marginalia, usually adding on to the translations. Lacking a-z6, A-F6, Î'-Î6. Contains only the section on Latin to Greek. ii1 in duplicate, with ii2 missing. Each new alphabet letter is done into a wooden engraving depicting an animal. Errata in rear. Colophon with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, with the Hebrew diacritical signs (nikud). Shelved case 4. USTC: 689208, listing 12 copies of the full text, none in the United States. Provenance on rear pastedown: This book entitled "EARLY LATIN AND GREEK LEXICON" printed in Basle, Switzerland in 1522 by Valentinus Curio, has been deposited in trust in the Library of Oberlin College by Harlan F. Burket of the class of 1882 in memory of his warm, personal college friends and associates Professor Azariah Root of the class of 1884, President Henry Churchill King of the class of 1879, and Dr. Edward Increase Bosworth of the Theological class of 1886 who was my close personal college friend during the year 1881." 1376209. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
