Calepinus (Calepino),A. Ambrosii Calepini Bergomatis... Lot 35

Calepinus (Calepino),A. Ambrosii Calepini Bergomatis Eremitani Dictionarium. Rhegii Lingobardia (= Reggio Emilia), D.Berthochi 1502. fol. With woodcut initials. 444 nn. Bl. - ╔Offer: Valla,L.╗ Hoc in volumine hec continentur. Laurentii Vallensis elegantiae de lingua latina.... Venezia, B. de Zanis, 18.12.1503. With numerous woodcut initials and printer's mark at the end. 90 num. Bindery of the twentieth century over wooden cover. (Damaged, wormholes, clasps missing, half of cover missing). ╔I.╗ Adams C 202. not in STC. Zaunmuller 304 - Ambrogio Calepino (1440 Bergamo 1510). First ed. of the first Latin dictionary in modern spirit. Numerous updated editions till the 18th century edited. Life's work of the Ital. Lexicographer, philologist and translator. - Two-column print, text in Latin. - Tit. laterally frayed. Bl. Ru1 with minor loss of text at bottom. - ╔II.╗ Lorenzo Valla (1405 Rome 1457), Ital. Humanist and canon, critic of then common Mitellatin language and scholastic philosophy. Author of philological texts and translator of classical authors, founder of the new Christian philosophical thought. - ╔II.╗ Last 3 ll. in lower. Text loss in lower corners, colophon present. - Endpapers missing. Book block overall well preserved, wide margins. - Very rare Italian post-incunabula double volume for the study of ancient Latin. - 2 very rare Italian post-incunabula in 1 volume. Contemporary half leather over wood (damaged, worming, clasps lacking, half of the back cover is missing). Beginning and end with chipping (partly text loss). Lacking endpapers. ancient Latin.