Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
HESYCHIUS. Dictionarium. Greek text. [197] (of [198]) leaves; lacks the last leaf, blank except for Aldine device on verso. Folio, 316x205 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches, lacking clasps, vertical crack in lower portion of spine, upper outer cover corners chipped, small patch of adhesive residue at top of front cover; dampstaining at beginning and end, several small wormholes through first half of volume causing slight text loss. title soiled with old Tübingen seminary stamp on verso, corner off front free endpaper. (Venice: Aldus Manutius, August 1514)

Additional Details

first edition. "The most extensive Greek lexicon of antiquity" (Sarton). Renouard, page 66(3); Ahmanson-Murphy 122; Hoffmann II, 261; Sarton I, 398.