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ESTIENNE, HENRI. Thesaurus Graecae linguae
[with Glossaria duo]. 6 volumes in 5. Folio, early 19th-century russia gilt, needs rebacking; light marginal dampstaining throughout, lacks the blanks, small institutional release stamp on titles, 2c6 in Volume 1 apparently supplied from a slightly shorter copy and inlaid to size. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1572-73
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Notes: first edition of Henri Estienne's monumental Greek dictionary, "... a high point in the annals of European scholarship... to this day the essential tool for the study of Greek"--Schreiber 181. Printing and the Mind of Man 62 note.
Bound in Volume 4 is the first edition of Estienne's Glossaria duo, including "the editiones principes of the two most valuable ancient Byzantine bilingual glossaries: the Latin-Greek Philoxenus Glossary, and the Greek-Latin Cyrillus Glossary"--Schreiber 182.
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