Lexicon Universale Historico- Geographico- Chronologico- Poetico-Philologicum. 2 vols.

Title continues: "Continens Historiam omnis aevi, geographiam ominium Locorum, Genealogiam principum Familiarum, additâ ubique Chronologia tum veteri tumrecentiore, Mythologiam insuper omnium Fabularum, Discussionem Philologicam illustrium circa haec occurrentium Difficultatum; Aliaque plurima scitu dignissima. Cum Indicibus variis, rerum imprimis locupletissimo, memorabilia huius Lexici per Locorum Communium toitulos Lectori illico spectanda exhibente. Tomus Prior & Alter." Hoffman (1635-1706) was a theologian and historian in addition to his work as a lexicographer. He held a professorship in Greek at the University of Basel. This is the two-volume first edition of his lexicon, one of the last written in Latin, later expanded into a 4 vol. set. The most important work of a 17th century Swiss scholar of importance to the history of European philology.