[Rarebooks] FS: Early 16th c. collection of classical works on grammar & lexicography.

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Nonius Marcellus; Sextus Festus Pompeius and Marcus Terentius Varro.
QUE HOC LIBRO CONTINENTUR. NONII MARCELLI PERIPATHETICI AD FILIUM DE
VERBORUM PROPRIETATE COMPENDIUM. Sexti Festi Pompeii Fragmenta per
Ordinem Alphabeti. Marci Terentii Varronis de Lingua Latina Libri Tres.
De Analogia Libri Duo... (Paris: Joannem Marchant. 1511). Folio. 3
parts in 1. ff.(6),lx;(2),xl;xxiii,(1, blank). First 2 parts are double
column. Title printed in black & red Gothic type within an elaborate
border of woodcut vignettes, and a large central device of Parisian
bookseller Hemon Le Fevre. White-on-black woodcut initials throughout.
Later limp vellum, spine stamped in gilt. A.e.g. Title page lightly
soiled, and with a repair at top fore-corner that just touches the
woodcut border. Round rubber stamp of "Bibliotheque de Sorbonne" on
title page and following the end of the text of parts 2 & 3.
$3,000.00
(trade discount allowed)
A collection of classical works on grammar and lexicography, edited by
Giovanni Battista Pio (d. 1540?). It was first published in Milan in
1510. Renouard/Moreau, II, 1511, #176

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