[Rarebooks] FS: Two 16th c. dictionaries (Latin-Greek & Medical Anatomy) bound together

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(DICTIONARIES) Hopper, Marcus (or, Hopperus, Marcus). LATINO-GRAECUM DICTIONARIUM... Basel: (Hieronymi Curionis, Impensis Henrici Petri. 1563). Folio. (8),407,(101)pp. Double column text. Indices. Woodcut device on title page and verso of final leaf. Historiated woodcut initials. BOUND WITH: Camerarius, Joachim, the elder. COMMENTARII UTRIUSQUE LINGUAE... HOC EST, DILIGENS EXQUISITIO NOMINUM, QUIBUS PARTES CORPORIS HUMANI APPELARI SOLENT... Basel: Joannem Hervagium. 1551. (44)pp.,498 columns (text in double columns),(40)pp. Indices. Woodcut device on title and on verso of final leaf. One text woodcut. Historiated initials. The two works bound together in contemporary roll-tooled pigskin. Both brass fore-edge clasps and catches present. A lovely copy, but for some pinhole worming, mostly marginal, and not affecting the text. A very clean, attractive copy.	$2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
I. First edition of an early Latin-Greek dictionary. VD 16 H4844; Adams H842.
II. First edition of one of the earliest medical dictionaries, in Greek and Latin, defining the terms of human anatomy. VD 16 C371; Adams C416; Durling 805; Wellcome I 1221.


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