Lexicon Manuale Graecum, omnibus sui generis lexicis … ut prima Vocum Graecarum ordine alphabetico … altera Difficiliorum ex iisdem … et tertia Vocum phrasiumque Latinarum.
Leipzig: J.F. Gleditischii, 1722.
Price: $650.00
About the item
First edition. Engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black. [x] pp; 3120 numbered columns on [780] leaves, text in double columns. Thick 4to. Old vellum over stiff boards, spine titled in ink. Covers soiled, vellum split at foot of spine, some toning and foxing throughout. Bookplate and small spine label of Fintray House Library. Not in Vancil (see p. 109 for later editions); Graesse III, 228.
Item #316012
First edition of this seminal work in Greek lexicography, widely used in the Roman Catholic Church and remaining, through many later editions, a standard work in the pedagogy of ancient Greek throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Uncommon in first edition.