Live auction - Lot 695

[Philology]

TIXIER de RAVISI, Jean

Epithetorum opus absolutissimum [...].

Venice, M.A. Zaltieri, 1588


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4to: [8]-768 pp. (some pp. heavily browned, some spotting, some wormholes in the begin. and at the end).

Contemp. vellum, flat spine, sp. edges (some min. tears).

Venetian ed. of this well-known literary and poetic lexicon in alphabetical order (1st Paris 1518) by the humanist Tixier (1480-1524). Each epithet is accompanied by its references to the major Latin poets and prose writers from Antiquity to the author's time, and accompanied with historical comments by Texier. Several curious entries of a historical, botanical, geographical nature (such as the river Eridanus, which has its roots "in imis Vesuli montis").
Ref. EDIT16 38329. - Not in Adams.

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Lot 695

Epithetorum opus absolutissimum [...].

TIXIER de RAVISI, Jean

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