* 78. [LANCELOT (Antoine)]. New method for easily learning the Greek language, containing the rules of declensions, conjugations, investigation of the theme, syntax, quantity, accents, dialects, and poetical licenses. Paris, A. Vitré, 1655. In-8, xxxix, 574 p., [5] f., tan basane, spine ribbed. First edition of this Greek method by the Jansenist grammarian Claude Lancelot (1615-1695). Note the tables of verbs printed in two inks. Leather rubbed, parting of spines cracked. Attached: CLENARDUS (Nicolaus). Grammatica graeca. Paris, S. Cramoisy & S. Mabre-Cramoisy, 1664. In-8, [4] f., 208 p., soft vellum, title in manuscript on the back. A very successful school grammar, written by the humanist and scholar Nicolas Clénard (1495-1542). Beautiful Greek typography. Missing a guard, other minor defects.

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