[Rarebooks] FS: Important Aldine incunable: Crastonus' "Dictionarium Graecum"

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Crastonus, Johannes. DICTIONARIUM GRAECUM Copiosissimum Secundum Ordinem 
Alphabeti cum Interpretatione Latina... (Venice: Aldus Manutius. Dec. 1497). 
Folio. 243 (of 244) leaves, lacking the last blank. Greek & Latin text in 2 
columns of 42 lines, index in 3 columns of 55 lines. Bound circa 1800 in full 
orange morocco, ornately gilt, with a large central dolphin & anchor within 
a rope border on each cover. The Syston Park Library copy, with the 2 
bookplates of Sir John H. Thorold (1734-1815). Also with the bookplate of T. J. 
Coolidge, Jr. Marbled endpapers. A.e.g. A few leaves with minor repairs at 
the lower blank margin. Binding a bit rubbed, but perfectly sound and quite 
attractive.     $40,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The rare first Aldine edition of an important Greek-Latin dictionary 
compiled by Crastonus (d. 1498) on the basis of an older dictionary by Constantino 
Lascaris. In addition to the dictionary, there are various philological 
tracts and additions by Scipio Fortiguerra and Marcus Musurus. See Dibdin's 
BIBLIOTHECA SPENCERIANA Vol. III, #553, calling this work "one of the noblest 
publications of the Aldine Press." Renouard p. 13, #7. Hain-Copinger #6151. 
BMC V, p. 558.

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