Estienne | Thesaurus Graecae linguae, [Geneva], 1572, 5 volumes, later calf-backed boards

Henri Estienne

Θησαυρος της ελληνικης γλωσσης... Thesaurus graecae linguae (Appendix libellorum ad Thesaurum Graecae linguae pertinentium). [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1572

5 volumes, folio (357 x 220mm.), woodcut Estienne device on title-page, woodcut cartouche at start of each letter, with blank leaves, a few early annotations in Latin and Greek, early nineteenth-century half calf, lightly browned, bindings slightly worn with a few repairs and some joints split

HENRI ESTIENNE'S MAGISTERIAL GREEK DICTIONARY, "the most comprehensive and sophisticated lexical record of any European language that had ever been published" (J. Considine, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe, 2008, p.82).

LITERATURE

GLN-2434; Schreiber, Estienne 181

PROVENANCE:

The Loverdos Collection, gilt bookplate and library stamp to rear pastedown, in both volumes