Bibliotheca Menckeniana Quae Autores Praecipue Veteres Graecos Et Lat Historiae Item

by Otto Mencke Johann Burckhard

$4,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Engraved frontis. port. of J.B. Mencke. Title printed in red & black. 8 p.l. incl. frontis. , 876 pp., 82 leaves. Thick 8vo, orig. limp boards occasional minor foxing , uncut. Leipzig, J.F. Gleditsch & Son, 1727. Second edition, much enlarged 1st ed.: 1723 and a very lovely copy in original state; this was a very influential catalogue and was considered in its time to be the model of a universal bibliography. The Menckeniana is a catalogue of a

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