Author: PASSERIUS, JOH. B.
Title: Linguae Oscae specimen singulare quod superest Nolae ... Foll. by 2) JOH. CHR. AMADUTIUS, Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum ...and 3) (JOH. B. PASSERIUS), Monumenta veterum Etruscorum (French title only, as issued). And 4) ELENCHUS vocum Hebraicarum and LEXICON vocum Etruscarum. (No separate titlepages, as issued.).
Description: Roma, Zempel, 1774. 1775. ad1) Folio w. vignet on title p., 3 tables and head- and tailpiece. ad 2) W. vignet on title and headpiece, 2 engr. initials and 2 textills. ad3) W. fold. table and an engr. ill. ad4) no ill. Old brds., rubb. and spine dam. (I - LXXXVII pp.). Biogr. Univ. XV, 10: Passerius (1694 - 1780) was a scholar of antiquity: 2) Amadutius (Biogr. Univ. I, 179) was a philologist from Rome, and author of the 'Congregationis de Propaganda Fide'. 1)comp. Brunet I, 197: 2nd ed. The Etruscan types had been cut for P. Bonarotius ca. 1726. 3) The folding table is a large woodcut facsimile of the Tabula Eugubina. See Blackmer sale 901, 902 for references on Passeri:

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