Golius, J. Lexicon arabico-latinum,

contextum ex probatioribus orientis lexicographis. Accedit index latinus copiosissimus (...). Leiden, Bonaventure & A. Elsevier, 1653. 1st ed. (12),2922 columns,(40) p. Woodcut printer's device on title-p. Cont. calf (worn, outer joints split). Folio.

Title-p. rebacked, endpapers renewed, first few p. w. (mostly marginal) waterst., some browning and foxing as usual. The mathematician and orientalist Golius studied Arabic with Erpenius, whom he succeeded as professor of Arabic at Leiden University in 1625. He later held the mathematics chair at the same university. His Arabic-Latin dictionary, based on the Sihah of Al-Jauhari, remained the best of its kind until the nineteenth century. The work itself is an impressive technical achievement, with text in both Roman and Arabic types.