LEXIKA - Moreri, Louis. Le grand Dictionaire historique ou le Mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane: qui contient en abregé l'Histoire fabuleuse Des Dieux & des Heros de l'Antiquité Payenne... Novelle et derniere édtion revue, corrigée et augmentée. 4 parts and 4 supplements in 8 volumes. With gest. Title as frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 large engraved head vignettes and 2 engraved initials by S. Thomass. Initales by S. Thomassin after Desmarets and De Troye. Paris, D. Mariette, 1718 and Basel, J. Christ, 1745 (supplement). Folio. Later HP vellum bindings with spine titles circa 1900 (weakly bumped). Cf. Goldsmith M 1419 - Seemann 456 - Cioranescu 50442 - Zischka XXXVII, for the Supplement see Peche, Bibliotheca lexicorum, 458 (later edition only). - "In 1674 the Frenchman Louis Moréri (1643-1680) ventured to publish a non-Latin lexicon written in a national language. The 'Grand Dictionnaire Historique' is a more significant achievement than the works just mentioned; in terms of content, the book stands at the beginning of a new development and it was to become the starting point for a new series of successors and foreign adaptations" (Zischka). First published in 1674 as one-volume work, until 1759 in at least twenty further editions. - Untrimmed. - Slightly browned, in places somewhat foxed and browned as well as slightly dampstained, in places slight marginal tears, partly reinforced or supplemented on verso, but without loss of text. - On title hs. Ownership note on title, gest. Bookplate "Alvaro Valozza".