Bibliotheca Graeca, Sive notitia Scriptorum Veterum Graecorum,

quorumcunque monumenta integra, aut fragmenta edita extant: tum pleorumque è MSS ac deperditis.

by Johann Albert Fabricius

Second edition, six volumes, Latin.  Hamburg:  Christian Liebezeit, 1708-1715

Hardback set is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Thin boards have marble paper and tan cloth at spine. 
• Boards show some wear, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are scuffed, worn, with exposed board.  See photos.  
• Spines have splitting at shoulders, traces of labels with ink, with chipped and frayed ends.  See photos.  
• Bindings are tender but generally intact; Book IV: top board is detached. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, staining, bookseller marks, library stamps.
• Frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, is present at Book I; other volumes have engraved second title pages.
• Ex-library "Bibliotheca Pulchrijugi. Congr. SS. Redemp.." stamped in blue ink.
• Interiors are gently age-toned, exhibit some smudges, staining in the margins, light edgewear, scattered foxing. 
• Inside pages have a few scattered marginalia, Book II and Vol. VII have final sheet adhered to back cover.   
• Text block edges are darkened, have some shelfwear. 
• PS20251016

6.75 x 8.25 inches

Six volumes of this authorial bibliography of classical and medieval Greek authors.  The second edition, in working bindings of marble paper over thin boards with cloth tape at spines.  Engraved frontispieces, titles printed in red and black ink.  Bindings show age and wear especially at spines; contents are generally very good, with overall condition Very Good Minus.

Set includes:

• Libri I and II (not identified as such):  1708; 940 pages, Author frontis.  Last leaf adhered to back cover.
• Liber III:  1707; 830 pages.
• Liber IV:  1708; 711 pages, front cover off.
• Liber IV Pars Altera:  1711; 618 pages.
• Liber V t. 1, 2:  1712; 399 pages; 3 further titles 186 pgs, 250 pgs, 111 pgs.
• Vol. VII - Liber V pt. 3:  1715; 792 pages.  Last leaf adhered to back cover.

Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736) was a German classical scholar and the greatest of the 18th-century bibliographers.  His masterpiece is his Bibliotheca Graeca (1705–28; revised by G.C. Harles, 1790–1812), which extends from pre-Homeric times to 1453.

Ex library stamps in blue ink:  "Bibliotheca Pulchrijugi. Congr. SS. Redemp."  

Second edition, as per the title page.  Printed in Hamburg by Christian Liebezeit.  

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