Author: SCALIGER, J.C.
Title: De causis linguae latinae libri tredecim.
Description: (Heidelberg), Petrus Santandreanus, 1584. [xxxii], 451 (=455) pp. Full calf (spine restored; rubbed; corner from one leaf (no loss); some waterstains, marginal worming in the gutter of 30 pages; front paste-downs loosening showing old printed paper; end paste-down missing; last endpaper restored; old owners entries made illegible.) * ¶ First published in 1540 by Gryphius in Lyon, to whom the introductory letter is directed. This is the third (second Santandreanus') edition. ".. an acute and judicious work on the leading principles of the language, in the course of which he claims to have corrected 634 mistakes made by Valla and his other predecessors." (Sandys II, p.178) ¶ Adams S576

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