Lexicon Manuale Graeco-Latinum et Latino-GrAecum: Studion Atque Opera, Josephi Hill, Joannis Entick, Gulielmi Bower, nec non Jacobi Smith, A.M. Adauctum. Insuper QuoQue Ad Calcem Adject.E Sunt Sententiae GRAECO-LATINAE. by Schrevel, Cornelis [Cornelii Schrevelii] - 1814

Philadelphia: Collins and Hannay, 1832. Leather_bound. Fair. Philadelphia: Collins and Hannay, 1832. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 531, 121. Full calf binding. Note condition: Boards scratched and worn with front corner of board chipped off, other corners worn and chafed. Bottom two inches of outer spine chipped off and spine worn and scuffed. Spine title dulled. Binding is strong. Interior heavily foxed. Name stamp of previous owner on inside board and also name of another owner in ink along with some calligraphic printing of "Book", and the same owner boldly inked his name on the front edge. Cornelis Schrevel [1608-1661] was a physician and scholar and head of the college faculty at Leiden University. His Latin-Greek lexicon was very popular and went through many editions and translations into the 19th century.

Johnson & Warner, Philadelphia, 1808. 19th Ed. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good+ Condition. Book vi, [648] p. incl. tables. 21 cm. Schrevel, a 17th century Dutch scholar, put together this Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek lexicon, which became the standard academic lexicon into the early 19th century, passing through many editions Early American imprints, Second series, no. 16153 This is the first American edition, co-published with Isaiah Thomas. Size: 8"-9" - Octavo (8vo). Item Type: Book. The text block is tight. Full leather binding with a red label reading "Schrevelii | Lexicon" in gilt on the spine. There is heavy wear at the edges and the tips of the bottom corners are worn through to the boards. Endpapers are browned from the glue; the text is moderately foxed throughout. The original owner, George Augustus Shryock, appears to have been a school boy who was not shy about writing his name on the title page (five times), as well as the top of at least two other pages, with… Read More

Lutetiae Parisiorum (Paris): Aug. Delalain, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition. Edited by Jean Philippe Jannet. Thick octavo. [4], viii, 1251pp. Bound in contemporary boards covered with an old vellum manuscript with the hand written text running horizontally across the front and back boards. Small owner's name in pencil on the front pastedown. Soiling and scattered small tears to the vellum, lacking a rear free endpaper, very good.