HESYCHIOS. Λεξικον. Dictionarium. Venice, Aldus, 1514. In-folio, brown calf, diamond-rectangle decoration formed by large friezes of cold scrolls set in fillets, smooth spine decorated with cold fillets, smooth edges (Early binding). First edition, published by the Venetian printer and humanist Aldo Manuzio (1449-1515) and his associate Andrea Torresano d'Asola (1451-1528). A sumptuous two-column Greek printing with a large Aldine mark on the title and last leaf. "The most extensive Greek lexicon of antiquity" (Sarton). The Lexicon of the grammarian Hesychios of Alexandria has come down to us in a single fifteenth-century Venetian manuscript. Numerous ancient annotations, in Greek sometimes accompanied by Latin, written in pen in the margins. From the libraries of Cecil D. Wray, with bookplate; William Horatio Crawford, with bookplate; and Henry Pakenham-Mahon, with bookplate. Spine completely rebound, corners restored and original boards reapplied (wear and tears). Some marginal annotations slightly trimmed, light scattered foxing. Renouard, 66, n°3 - Ahmanson-Murphy, 122 - Sarton, I, 398.