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LEXICON HEPTAGLOTTON

LEXICON HEPTAGLOTTON, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Aethiopicum, Arabicum, Conjunctim; et Persicum Separatim. Cui accessit Brevis, & Harmonica. (quantum fieri potuit) Grammaticae, Omnium praecedentium Linguarum Delineatio.

Castell, Edmund; Jacobus Golius [xxxii] pages of preliminary text, followed by 4008 columns. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with an engraved frontisportrait by William Faithorne. The first 44 columns are printed two per page; the remainder of the text has three columns printed per page. The text is printed in Roman, Italic, Hebrew, Persian and other fonts. Two volumes bound in one. Recently rebound in fine quarter black leather with raised bands on spine, gilt-lettered leather spine label, and gray cloth-covered boards. Minor rubbing to the raised bands and spine extremities. Large folio, with the paper height measuring 17.5" (450mm). Binding measures 18 1/16" x 11.5" (457mm x 290mm). Dictionaries; Polyglot; Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Semitic languages. "Dictionarium persico-latinum; opera viri cl. Jacobi Golii atque Edmundi Castelli". Several columns are misnumbered (376-378, 391-393), 487-489, etc.) and column 535 does not exist, but the text is complete. Previous owner's name stamped on the title page and on the two pages that follow. Minor foxing to many page margins. Several leaves are browned and/or creased, mainly on the fore-edge, and a few pages with small tears that were archivally repaired. ESTC R16460; Wing C1224 and C1225. First edition.
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