[EARLY GREEK PRINTING]. Bibliographie hellenique des XVe et XVIe siècles ou description raisonnée des ouvrages publiés en grec ou par des Grecs au XVe et XVIe siècles

  • Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose, 1962
By Legrand, Emile
Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose, 1962. Very good. 4 vols. 8vo. [8], ccxxviii pp., 2 ff., 320 pp., 1 f.; lxxvii pp., 1 f., 453 pp., 1 f.; xi, 516 pp., 1 f.; xliii, 395 pp., some illustrations in the text. Original blue publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Facsimile reprint of the 1885-1906 edition, limited to 325 copies. Legrand's "Bibliographie hellenique" has never been surpassed for its comprehensive analysis of pre-1600 books printed in Greece, or by Greek printers active elsewhere. The work is accompanied by extensive biographical notes, chronological tables, notes, documents and indexes.

¶ From the famed bibliographical library of B.H. Breslauer (sale of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, 2005, lot 1620).

Besterman (4th ed.) 2749.

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Title

[EARLY GREEK PRINTING]. Bibliographie hellenique des XVe et XVIe siècles ou description raisonnée des ouvrages publiés en grec ou par des Grecs au XVe et XVIe siècles

Author

Legrand, Emile

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose: Paris

Date

1962


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