Dictionarium historicum geographicum, poeticum, gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, locorum, ciuitatum, equorum, fluuiorum, sinuum, portuum, promontoriorum, ac montium, antiqua recentioráque ad Sacras & prophanas historias, poëtarúmque fabulas intelligendas, necessaria nomina, quo decet ordine complectens. : Ingenti nominum aceruo, historiarum, ac rerum insignium copia, postrema hac editione auctius & locupletius redditum, mendisq[ue] propemodum infinitis repurgatum.

Accession number

PML 129963

Creator

Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.

Published

Lugduni : Sumptibus Thomae Soubron, et Mosis a Pratis., M.D. XCV [1595].

Credit line

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2007.

Notes

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Printer's device on the title page.
Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-3K⁸ 3L⁴.

Description

[4], 452 leaves ; 24 cm (4to)

Inscriptions/Markings

Unidentified and crossed-out inscriptions inside upper cover, on first flyleaf, and on title page ([?] rhetor, 1651). Additional inscription inside upper cover crossed out.

Provenance

Ownership inscription of Petrus Chisslard, dated 1656, inscribed on title page; "Petrus Chisslard Rhetor 1656" inscribed inside lower cover and on lower flyleaf. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).

Binding

Contemporary blind-tooled reversed alum- tawed skin over paperboards; edges colored red.

Classification

Book

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