CLENARDUS, Nicolaus

8vo: [32]-466 [= 468]-[11, 1 bl.] pp. Woodcut mark on title. (toned, some dampstaining, inner margin of 1st ff. strengthened with sellotape). Contemp. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (soiled, sl. loosening). Good copy. Extremely rare (unrecorded?) Cologne ed. of the immensely popular Greek grammar of the Leuven humanist Clenardus (1493-1542), in the edition of the French teacher Petrus Antesignanus (1525-1561), with a dedication dated 10 April 1554. Ref. Not in VD16. - Not in Bakelants/Hoven (Clénard). - Not in Adams. Prov. Old Spanish ownership entry on title ('Alcala'). 'Lucas Alaman' (old collector's ticket). 'Orcas Berroren, Liburac' (bookpl.). Joined - IDEM - Grammatica Graeca, una cum investigatione thematis, & regulis syntaxeos [...] Ad usum scholarum Societatis Iesu. Caen, Guillaume Doublet, 1669. 8vo: 174-[2] pp. Woodcut mark (printing press!) on title. Contemp. limp vellum (soiled, sl. worn). Schoolboy's copy (traces of use, wormed throughout with loss of letters). Unique (unrecorded?) survivor of a Caen printing of Clenardus's Greek grammar for Jesuit schools