Cornelis Schrevel - Cornelii Schrevelii Lexicon manuale Graeco-Latinum & Latino-Graecum - 1670

Cornelis Schrevel (1608-1664). Cornelis Schrevel's Latin-Greek & Greek-Latin Lexicon. Leiden, The Netherlands, Hackiana Office, 1670, (8) ff., 888 pp., 184 pp., text in two columns.

A large volume in-8 (210x120 mm), full calf, decorated spine with nerves (period binding). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, lower hinge of the first board split, rounded corners. Moisture stain in the lower margin of several pages. Interior fresh.

Fifth edition significantly enlarged, especially regarding dialects and etymology; an edition adorned with a frontispiece title and an outside-the-text engraving depicting the portrait of Cornelis Schrevel in a medallion.

The work of the Dutch physician and scholar Cornelis Schrevel, this Latin/Greek lexicon was published in numerous editions.