Budé, Guillaume. Commentarii linguae graecae .... Lot 347

Budé, Guillaume. Commentarii linguae graecae . Cologne, Johann Soter, 1530. In 2nd (305 x 200 mm); [28], 595, [3] pages. Letterpress mark to title page (last paper with letterpress mark missing, lightly browned). Modern binding in red half-leather with gold title to smooth spine. Important work for Renaissance Greek language and literature studies published the previous year in princeps in Paris. Budé, a French Greek scholar who lived at the turn of the 14th and 16th centuries, composed this commentary at the request of Erasmus for the preparation of a Greek dictionary.