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Oxonii (Oxford): Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon Press), 1820. Reference book entirely in Latin and Ancient Greek. Contains many appendices and indices. Huge, thick, half-bound hardback with no jacket and decorative boards, with a green ribbon around whole. Boards are aged and worn with scoring and scuffing and worn, frayed edges; rear top and bottom edges are dented in one place each.. Leading corners are weak, bent and fraying. Separation beginning at top of rear board by spine; front board is almost completely separated from spine. Slightly cocked. Leather spine itself faded, heavily scuffed and bumped and frayed at head and foot of spine, with some loss from a tear at top, but lettering legible. Page block very tanned with some scuffing. Pastedowns and endpapers foxed and grubby; blanks tanned and foxed as are most page edges. Title page creased, with pencilled name of owner on reverse. p.941-973 have dog-eared lower corners, leading to intermittent creasing of the same corner on some… Read More

Oxonii: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1820. Ex-Library. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio. (2), viii, 1792 columns, 490pp., 182 columns, 27pp. Rebacked retaining original leather boards with black-stamped ornamental ruling and leather spine laid down with gilt ruling and gilt lettering on red label of spine; reinforced with binder's tape. Marbled edges. Title page printed in red and black with steel engraving. While on the staff of the printer Henri Estienne Johann Scapula 'secured' material from Etiennes' Greek Thesaurus, a work started buy his father and first published in 1572. Scalpula incorporated the material into his Greek Lexicon which was first published in 1580, the year Scalpula became a Professor for Greek and Moral at the Academy of Lausanne. The Greek words are not organized in strict alphabetical order but by word roots and language families. The front free endpapers contain elaborate pencil notes and amateurish drawings of a chariot and a man's anatomy with Greek notations. A third page… Read More