Eilhard LUBIN

The rare first edition.
Contemporary vellum binding. Darkened spine bearing a title label (lacks). Traces of ties. Several gatherings protruding.
An anthology of Greek quotations translated by Lubin and grouped in thematic chapters (Mulieres, In virtutem, In infantes...).

First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
Full vellum binding with overlapping edges. Smooth spine with handwritten title. Endpapers renewed.
Important Greek-Latin dictionary. The German humanist E. Lubin (1565-1621) taught poetics at the University of Rostock from 1595 to 1605 before becoming professor of theology. Fine Elzevier edition in small type. Between 1620 and 1680, Elzevier production experienced a golden age of typography. The origin of small formats and small type (a technical feat at the time) lay in cost considerations, as printing was then in crisis.