Joannis Sartori adagiorum Chiliades tres sive sententiae proverbiales Graeca, Latina & Belgica, ex praecipuis autoribus collectae, ac brevibus notis illustrae
Ex typographia Nicolai Herculis|Leyde [Leiden] 1656|9 x 15.50 cm|relié
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Elzevir edition bearing the printer's mark (Hercules with foot on a slain dragon). No trace in the Bibliothèque Nationale catalogues. Contemporary full vellum binding, pen title, ties present. Spine soiled, endpapers detached, interior in good condition. Shrevel (1615-1664) was a Dutch grammarian, best known as the author of a Latin-Greek and Greek-Latin lexicon which was adopted by many countries and reprinted numerous times; he also undertook many editions of Latin authors. This book is Shrevel's edition of Sartori's adagiorum, a collection of Latin proverbs with Greek and Dutch translations, followed by remarks. Illegible pen ex-libris.