![Item #2560 Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, mo[n]tesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, omnibus adolesce[n]tibus in poesi versantibus oppidoq[ua ] necessarius. Collectore Hermanno Torrentino. Hermannus Torrentinus, Herman van der Beke.](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2560.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643020990)
Elucidarius poeticus continens historias poeticas, fabulas, insulas, regiones, urbes, fluvios, mo[n]tesq[ue] insigniores, atq[ue] huiusmodi alia, omnibus adolesce[n]tibus in poesi versantibus oppidoq[ua ] necessarius. Collectore Hermanno Torrentino.
Basileae [Basel]: Volfium, [1532]. First Basel edition. First Basel edition. Large woodcut printer’s device on final page. Slightly over trimmed with recurring loss, affecting only the headlines. A water stain at the lower edge, effecting quire H. Paper tanned. Otherwise in fine condition.
Scarce, first Basel edition of Torrentinus’s Elucidarius, the first geographical and historical dictionary of its kind.
Torrentinus’s (ca. 1450–1520) Elucidarius is considered the most important and influential early encyclopedia or dictionary of classical history, geography, and mythology, first published in 1498. Elucidarius alphabetically lists people, mythological figures, places, etc. from classical times, its descriptions and definitions are gathered mainly from classical literature.
USTC 649869.
Price: €1,200.00