Early Edition of Guarino da Favera’s Greek Lexicon Publisher(s)_Girolamo Porro

Early Edition of Guarino da Favera’s Greek Lexicon Publisher(s)_Girolamo Porro[Greek title] Dictionarium Varini Phavorini Camertis Nucerini episcopi, magnum illud ac perutile multis variisque ex autoribus collectum, totius linguae graecae commentarius. Basileae [Basel]: [Roberto Cheimerino = Winter], 1538 Guarino da Favera (Varinus Phavorinus, 1450 1537) was a pupil of Politian and a significant lexicographer. He tutored Giovanni de' Medici who, as Pope Leo X, appointed him bishop of Nocera in 1514. He is best know for the

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only the section of the Victoria Line extending to Brixton remains under construction

worked on a revised edition of the Mercator-Hondius atlas (which was known as the Atlas Novus from 1638 onwards)

date-stamped 27 May 1896

and seemingly haphazard naming of stations

They are accompanied by zeppelins

Vignettes including Kronstadt and St Petersburg were engraved by Henry Winkles

with two examples located in the British Library

three bears and one macaw

and his behaviour impulsive: he delays his departure from Moscow (in 1811) as a result of going for a walk by the lagoons

Coronelli’s plan retains features of the earliest modern map of Athens

Sheet size 74 x 108 cm