Live auction - Lot 1198

[Bayeux - Antiquity]

ESTIENNE, Charles

Lexicon historicum, geographicum, poeticum [...] gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, locorum [...] nomina [...] complectens [...]. Hanc postremam editionem Fed. Morellus [...] recognovit [...].

Paris, S. Chappelet, 1620


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8vo: [4] ff.-2138 col. (some toning).

Contemp. gilt calf, covers with gilt central arms and ruled border, gilt spine with raised bands and morocco label (spine rubbed with sm. def., endpapers lifted). Good copy.

Later ed. of Estienne’s popular encyclopaedia of Antiquity, used in many humanist schools. Woodcut mark on title. Title printed in red and black; text in 2 col.
Ref. Cp. USTC 6002253 (absurdily "describing" it as a broadsheet!).
Prov. Bayeux prize book awarded by the Jesuit College in 1681. - François de Nesmond (1629-1715), bishop of Bayeux 1661-1715 (large gilt arms on covers and device on spine; ref. Olivier 1293).

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Lot 1198

Lexicon historicum, geographicum, poeticum [...] gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, locorum [...] nomina [...] complectens [...]. Hanc postremam editionem Fed. Morellus [...] recognovit [...].

ESTIENNE, Charles

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