Calepino, Ambrogio [Ambrosius Calepinus] (c. 1440-1510)
Dictionarium Octo Linguarum. Basel: Sebastian Henricpetrus, 1584.Large folio volume, the eight languages in question are: Latin, Hebrew, Greek, French, Italian, German, Flemish, and Spanish; text in two columns throughout, 1,467 numbered pages; followed by a second section with a separate title page: Conrad Gesner's Onomasticon Propriorum Nominum, woodcut printer's device to verso of last leaf; bound in full German alum-tawed and blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with a heraldic coat of arms on both boards, the binding rubbed, surface material abraded on the covers, lacking three brass corner-pieces and clasps, structurally sound; early ownership and library inscriptions to title and front pastedown, 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.