POMPEIUS GRAMMATICUS, Marcus Flaccus VERRIUS
De verborum significatione lib. XX notis et emendationibus Andreas Dacerius
Sumptibus Hugutanorum|Amstelodami [Amsterdam] • (Amsterdam) 1699|19.80 x 25.80 cm|relié
New edition by André Dacier, after the original Parisian edition of 1681, illustrated with a handsome frontispiece bearing the Dauphin's arms, and a title vignette with the arms of the same; a title headpiece with the dauphin's arms repeated. Title page in red and black.
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Smooth spine with title in black ink. Boards blind-stamped with multiple frames and angular fleur-de-lis tools. Spine soiled with a lack at foot. Good copy, rather fresh, printed on good paper.
Festus was a grammarian of the second century A.D. who compiled an abridgment of the encyclopedic dictionary of his contemporary Verrius (lost work) of which only fragments survive (letters M-V) but...
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Smooth spine with title in black ink. Boards blind-stamped with multiple frames and angular fleur-de-lis tools. Spine soiled with a lack at foot. Good copy, rather fresh, printed on good paper.
Festus was a grammarian of the second century A.D. who compiled an abridgment of the encyclopedic dictionary of his contemporary Verrius (lost work) of which only fragments survive (letters M-V) but...
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