1556, Guillaume Budé, Commentarii linguae graecae, latin.

Condition : good, small tears and stains to binding, small tears to endpapers, lightly browned, partly faint traces of moisture to margins, up to column 494 minimal wormholes to side margins (including 7 leaves with trace of restoration), 2 leaves with small restored tear to lower margin, missing laces. Overall a very good clean copy.
Illustrations : large printer's mark on title.
Binding : soft vellum with flaps, handwritten title on spine.
Volume : 1 volume.
Format : in-4.
Pages : 4 ff, 1560 columns, 92 ff / a4, a - z6, Aa - Tt6, 1 f., Vu - Zz6, AA - LL6.
Publisher : Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius.
Date : 1556.
References : VD16 B 9088; Brunet I, 1374; PMM 190 (for the original edition).

Rare edition of one of the greatest contributions of the Renaissance to the study of the Greek language. 

Guillaume Budé (1467 - 1540) represented a new type of writer, self-taught and lay; until then, the great scholars were clerics trained at length by masters. A man of learning, he did not shy away from taking on important responsibilities "in the century": secretary to the king, then chargé de mission to the Holy See, he accompanied Francis I to the Camp du Drap d'Or (1520). He was linked with Erasmus, but also with Thomas More, Rabelais and Dolet, with whom he kept up an abundant correspondence, sometimes in Latin, sometimes in Greek, sometimes in French. A tireless worker, hailed as the greatest French humanist, Budé left a considerable body of work. If his work remains little-known, it is because it was written for an audience of initiates. Budé was not concerned with popularising knowledge and reaching a wide audience: he was a scholar who wrote for scholars, a thinker who philosophised in a poetic language woven with symbols and figures.