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GIGGEO, ANTONIO. Thesaurus linguae Arabicae. Arabic and Latin text. [14] leaves, 1428 columns, [1] page; 1518 columns, [1] page; 1676 columns, [1] page; 1470 columns. 4 volumes. Folio, 344x228 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 sheep gilt, worn, portions missing from spine ends, joints cracked or starting, Volume 1 numbering piece off; contents generally clean apart from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp and accession number in each volume, rust hole in blank portion of general title, and light marginal dampstaining at end of last volume. Milan: Giovanni Pietro Ramellato, 1632
first edition of the first large-scale Arabic-Latin dictionary, "the first to be based on the works of the Arabic lexicographers themselves"--Smitskamp 226. Zaunmüller 18.
