Johann Theodor Jablonski (1654-1731)

Johann Jakob Hofmann (1635-1706)

TWO LEXICONS (3 VOLS.)

Basel, 1677, Königsberg and Leipzig, 1748
Johann Theodor Jablonski: Allgemeines LEXICON der Künste und Wissenschaften. Format 4°, 24.2x19.3 cm. 764 pp. (vol. 1), respectively 1456 numbered pages in total (continuous pagination), 24 unnumbered leaves of INDEX + TABLE, in German. Title page (of vol. 1) printed in black and red, with printer`s device. Allegorical copper-engraved frontispiece, illustrations in text. Full leather binding, spines with 5 raised bands and labels with gilt lettering and decoration. Published by Johann Heinrich Hartung in Königsberg and Leipzig in 1748. 2nd edition. Bound with: Johann Jakob Hofmann: LEXICON UNIVERSALE HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICO-CHRONOLOGICO-POETICO-PHILOLOGICUM. TOMVS ALTER. Format 2°, 34.1x20.7 cm. 600, 120 (NOMENCLATOR) numbered pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of INDEX RERVM + Errata Typographica, in Latin. Title page printed in black, with the publisher`s printer`s device. Initials, headpieces, vignettes. Full vellum binding with manuscript labels. Published by Johann Hermann Widerhold, printed by Jacob Bertschi and Johann Rudolph Genath in Basel in 1677. Slightly damaged by woodworm and moisture; on the title page of the Allgem. Lex. a partially scraped-off ownership inscription. Bindings worn, spines torn. Book blocks intact, in good condition.