Author: SCAPULAE, JOANNIS Title: Lexicon Graeco-Latinum, e Probatis Auctoribus Locupletatum Cum Indicibus Auctis et Correctis. Item Lexicon Etymologicum Cum Thematibus Investigatu Difficilioribus et Anomalis et Jo. Meursii Glossarium Contractum
Description: Oxonii (Oxford), Typographeo Clarendoniano (Clarendon Press). 1820. hardcover. Used, Reference book entirely in Latin and Ancient Greek. Contains many appendices and indices. Huge, thick, half-bound hardback with no jacket and decorative boards, with a green ribbon around whole. Boards are aged and worn with scoring and scuffing and worn, frayed edges; rear top and bottom edges are dented in one place each. Leading corners are weak, bent and fraying. Separation beginning at top of rear board by spine; front board is almost completely separated from spine. Slightly cocked. Leather spine itself faded, heavily scuffed and bumped and frayed at head and foot of spine, with some loss from a tear at top, but lettering legible. Page block very tanned with some scuffing. Pastedowns and endpapers foxed and grubby; blanks tanned and foxed as are most page edges. Title page creased, with pencilled name of owner on reverse. p.941-973 have dog-eared lower corners, leading to intermittent creasing of the same corner on some following pages until end. Pages are slightly warped from age but tightly bound considering; maybe 0.5-1% of pages have light, unobtrusive pencilled marginalia and underlining. Aside from age-related wear, grubbiness and sunning, content is all clear and the book has aged well overall. TS. Good/No Dust Jacket.
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Price: GBP 159.17 = appr. US$ 227.29 Seller: PsychoBabel Books
- Book number: 253295
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