MORERI (Louis). The Great Historical Dictionary, or A Curiou - Lot 143

MORERI (Louis). The Great Historical Dictionary, or A Curious Blend of Sacred and Secular History […] By Rev. Louis Moréri, Priest, Doctor of Theology. Eighteenth and final edition, revised, corrected, and substantially expanded. Amsterdam, published by Brunel, Wetstein, Veuve de Coup, Kuyper, L’Honoré and Sons, Humbert, Chatelain, Uytwerf, Changuion, Wetstein and Smith, Mortier, and Catuffe; Leiden, Luchtmans and Haak; The Hague, Gosse, van Duren, Neaulme, Moetjens, Block, and van Dole, Utrecht, Neaulme, 1740. 8 folio volumes (40.5 x 25 cm), full contemporary calfskin, 6-ribbed spine, decorated panels, burgundy morocco title label, red edges. Corners worn, cap and mouthpieces damaged, and minor defects in the binding (easily restorable). Interior fresh. Moréri published his first dictionary (in a single volume, in 1674) in response to Pierre Bayle’s. This is the most complete edition of his dictionary, produced by Sieur Platel, including Goujet’s first supplement and augmented with numerous new entries.