Lexicon antiquitatum Romanorum: In quo ritus et antiquitates cum Graecis ac Romanis communes, tum Romanis peculiares, sacrae et profanae, publicae et privatae, civiles ac militares exponuntur. Accedit his auctorum notatorum, emendatorum, & cxplicatorum index copiosissimus. Auctore Samuele Pitisco: Cum figuris en aes incisis. 1-3.

PITISCUS, Samuel.

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Haag, Petrum Gosse, 1737. Large folio. Engr. front,+ (70),+ 624 pp.+ engr. portrait,+ double page fold. engr. plate; engr. front.+ 715; 767 pp. Minor spotting, stain pp. 209-210 and 597-598 in part one, minor hole with loss of letters pp. 761-762 in part three. Contemporary vellum, hand written spine titles to volume one and two, blue edges. Three volumes, top of spine to volume two with a small tear. Second and much enlarged edition of Pitiscus? Roman dictionary. The first edition was published in 1713, in two folio volumes, and was a revised edition of Rosinus? ?Antiquitatum romanarum? An abridged 8vo edition was later published by Abbé Pierre Barral in 1766. The engraved frontispieces are engraved by M. Pool after B. Picart resp. A. Houbraken. The large folding engraved plate in volume one depicts the Roman mosaic in Stonesfield in Oxfordshire that was discovered in 1712, and is engraved by F. Halma. The mosaic itself was destroyed during the 18th century. Samuel Pitiscus (1637-1727), nephew of the famous Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, was a Dutch historian and classicist from Zutphen. He studied theology in Deventer and was later appointed headmaster of the Latin school in Zutphen.

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• Title: Lexicon antiquitatum Romanorum: In quo ritus et antiquitates cum Graecis ac Romanis communes, tum Romanis peculiares, sacrae et profanae, publicae et privatae, civiles ac militares exponuntur. Accedit his auctorum notatorum, emendatorum, & cxplicatorum index copiosissimus. Auctore Samuele Pitisco: Cum figuris en aes incisis. 1-3.
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Hardcover / Hardback