Amalthea Onomastica

Lucae [Lucca, Italy]: Sumptibus Balthassaris de Iudicibus, 1640. Leather Bound. Fair. [8], 960 [900], 88 p. 24 cm. Full leather over wooden boards. Brass clasps. Elaborate blindstamp decoration on front and back. Red and white title page with vignette. Text in two columns. Front board detached and rear board loosening. Leather cracked along spine. Large chip in leather at spine head with smaller chip at tail. Ink inscription and stain on front pastedown, front free endpaper missing, ink notation (1641) and spot on title page, small chip in title, tiny wormhole pp. 137-140, some foxing and spots, tear in margin p. 249, mild dampstain on bottom corners of pp. 345-349, small hole in rear p. 88, rear free endpaper detached. Errors in pagination: 744-783, 870-889 lacking in numbering; 802-803 misnumbered 982-983.

Title continues: - "In qua Voces Vniversae, Abstrvsiores, Sacrae, Profanae, Antiqvae, Antiqvatae, Vsurpatae, Vsurpandae, E Latisis, Latinograecis, Latinobarbaris, Criticis, Antiquarjs, Thesauris, Lexicis, Onomasticis, Glassarijs, Matheseos, Iurisprudentiae, Medicinae, aliarumq; Disciplinarum, Auctoribus quibusq; indicatis, exerpta, Italice Interpretatae, Cum Onomositico Intalicolatino, ad calcerm addito, Ordine Alphabetico Digestae."