8vo. (IV),LXVI,(2),480,44 p. Half calf. 22 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 240337786; Brunet 3,1788: 'Bonne édition, dans laquelle le texte a été rétabli d'après des manuscrits'; Graesse 4,558: 'la meilleure édition'; Ebert 14181: 'The best edition. A new recension from MSS. and restored to its original order'; Neue Pauly 8, col. 343/4: still the first listed edition) (Details: Back gilt and with 5 raised bands. Shield in the second compartment. Margins uncut) (Condition: Binding worn. Back rubbed. Boards chafed. Corners bumped. Foot of the spine slightly damaged) (Note: This edition is according to Klaus Alpers in the Neue Pauly, (2001) s.v. 'Lexikographie' a very important contribution to Greek lexicography. (NP 15,130). Johannes Pierson was a much promising Dutch philologist, born in 1731, who died young in 1759 in Leeuwarden, where he was rector of the Schola Latina from 1755. At the university of Franeker, where the Renaissance of Dutch Greek studies had begun, he was a pupil of J.C. Valckenaer and Is. Schrader. In 1751 he matriculated at the University of Leyden to hear T. Hemsterhuis. Hemsterhuis advised his students to use especially the lexica of the ancients. The ancient lexicographers could be of great use for the amending of texts of classical authors, and they were of great help to gain a profound knowledge of the Greek language and its vocabulary. Valckenaer chose Ammonius, Pierson Moeris Atticistes. This was a great age for ancient lexicographers. In 1754 D. Ruhnkenius published his edition of the Platonic dictionary of Timaeus Sophista. (Sandys 2,461; NNBW 3, 976/77; Gerretzen, Schola Hemsterhusiana, 1940, p. 46 & 100). § Moeris (Moiris) was a Greek grammarian and lexicographer, from ca. 200 AD. He compiled a lexicon for the use of correct Attic under the title 'Lexeis Attikôn kai Hellênôn kata stoicheion'. Examples of correct Greek are taken from Plato, Thucydides, Xenophon, the Attic orators and Aristophanes. (NP 8,343/4). The last 50 p. of Pierson's edition are filled with the 'Editio Princeps' of the Philetaerus of Herodian. Nowadays this ancient lexicon is only ascribed to 'Aelius Herodianus et Pseudo-Herodianus', one of the most important Greek grammarians, who lived in the 2nd cent. A.D. (cf. NP 5,465/6) (Collation: *-4*8, 5*4, A-2I8 2K6)(2 leaves of gathering Kk are bound in wrong order)) (Photographs on request)