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Hesychius of Alexandria Lexikon, in Greek.
Lexikon : Dictionarivm locvpletiss. ea fide ac diligentia excusum, ut hoc uno, ad ueterum autorum fere omnium, ac poetarum in primis lectionem, iusti commentarij uice, uti qui uis possit, & plane nihil sit, quod ad rectam interpretationem desyderari hic queat.
Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm, December 1521.
[1], 776 columns. Greek type in double columns. Large woodcut printer's device in colophon, one woodcut initial. The first edition published in a German-speaking country, correcting the Aldine edition of 1514, with Thomas Anshelm's striking device copied after Albrecht Dürer.
Condition: occasional light browning and a few ink annotations to margins. One leaf repaired, slightly encroaching onto text. Stained to gutter of title. Later full calf, re-backed to spine. Worn with loss to edges. New endpapers. 300mm x 200mm.
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