Auction 355 Old & Rare Books - Classical Antiquity
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DICTIONARIES -- GESNER, J.M. Novus linguae et eruditionis romanae thesaurus. Post R. Stephani e.a. (...) curas. Lpz., 1749. 4 in 2 vols. W. engr. front.-portr., first ti. printed in red & black. Fol. Cont. cf. w. raised bands & dec. gilt backs. (Some rep. to binds., a bit browned/foxed). -- Added: I.J.G. SCHELLER. Lexicon latino-belgicum auctorum classicorum. Cur. D. Ruhnkenius. Leyden, S. & J. Luchtmans (a.o.), 1799. In 2 vols. 4°. Hcf. -- S. PITISCUS. Lexicon Latino-Belgicum novum (...) a variis mendis purgatum (...), cura & studio A.H. Westerhovii. Ed. 4a. Rott., H. Beman, 1771. 2 vols. W. 2 engr. ti-vign. 4°. Cont. cf. w. raised bands & dec. gilt backs. (Spine ends chipped). -- (6).

Ad 1: Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761) "One of the greatest scholars in the eighteenth century", as Sandys (III, p. 5) calls him, raised the standard of classical studies in Northern and Central Germany and was one of the foremost leaders of the movement known as New Humanism.

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