Pollux, Julius. Onomasticum Graece & Latine. Post egregiam illam Wolfgangi Seberi editionem denuo immane quantum emendatum, suppletum, & illustratum. Volume I (of 2). 2 Bl., 48, 683 S. Title in black and red. With copper title and stung frontispiece. 32 x 20 cm. Leather d. C. (breathing and bumping, joints bursting) with rich ornamental gilding and 2 gold embossed R signs. Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706. Brunet IV, 786: "Édition la plus belle et peut-être encore la meilleure". Ebert 117655. Hoffmann II, 262: "So far the best edition". Schweiger I, 270. – Second edition of the dictionary, first published in 1502, arranged according to subject areas, edited and published by Seber, Jungermann, Kühn, Lederlin and Hemsterhuis, but here only the first of two published volumes. To this day, "a valuable source for the history of ancient music" (Riemann 1410). Especially for the theatre and music history of the older Attic period important work. Treats, among others, theater masks, musical instruments and harmony theory, the Attic court system, further on the private life in antiquity, etc. With Greek-Latin parallel text. – Little stained copy of a historical school library, stamped accordingly.