HEDERICH, BENJAMIN.

Gründliches Antiquitäten-Lexicon, worinne die merckwürdigsten Alterthümer der Jüden, Griechen, Römer, Teutschen und ersten Christen zulänglich beschrieben und mit ihren Auctoribus bewiesen werden.

Leipzig, Gleditsch, 1743.

8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, a few wormholes and parts of gilting worn off. Small worm-tract to lower margin throughout, occassionaly slightly touching text, otherwise internally nice and clean. 15 ff., 3104 columns, 4 ff. + frontispiece. 

First edition of this lexicon on the antiquity, each entry with information on the source. "One of the most useful, & most used, of the literary reference works of the day" (Jantz, German Baroque Literature, no 167).

Order-nr.: 61321