1634 · Lugduni
by Calepinus, Ambrosius
Lugduni: Iacobi Cardon, 1634. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [12], 902, [2], 815; both title pages printed in red and black, and both with printer's woodcut device, copper-engraved head-piece on dedication page, woodcut initials and ornaments; full contemporary parchment (some soiling), blind-stamped lozenges, later manuscript spine title; supplied endpapers, large loss to bottom quarter of half title page not affecting text repaired; a very good, sound copy of a large and impressive volume. This famous and durable work was first published as a Latin lexicon in Reggio in 1502, and was gradually augmented by a series of editors to include up to ten languages, including English. "During the whole period of the Renaissance scarcely an important dictionary was published which did not reflect directly or indirectly the influence of Calepine" (Starnes). The first edition to contain English equivalents was that of Lugduni 1585, Alston II, 94; Labarre 187.
(Inventory #: 43463)