• RANÇONNET (Aimar de). Treasury of the French Language, Both Ancient and Modern. In addition to other things, it includes terms specific to seafaring, hunting, and falconry […] Revised and expanded in this latest edition by more than half. •• MASSET (Jean). An Accurate and Very Easy Guide to the French Language. ••• Ioannis Aegidii Nvceriensis’s Adagia for the Common People […]. •••• JONGHE (Adrien de). An Octolingual Nomenclature Containing the Proper Names of All Things. Paris: David Douceur, Sworn Bookseller, 1606. 4 parts in one folio volume, green morocco, double blind-stamped fillet framing the covers, ribbed spine decorated with the same motif, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru). • [IV] + 666 + [I] pp.; •• [II] + 32 pp.; ••• 24 pp. & ••• [IV] + 192 + [XXXVI] pp. • “Revised and expanded in this latest edition by more than half.” FIRST EDITION with text in two columns. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS RARE BOOK. From the library of Ferdinand Brunetière, with bookplate. Brunet, VI, 70–72; “The most highly regarded edition of this indispensable book for the study of French authors prior to the 17th century […] It is a very rare work” (Thiébaud, 682–683).
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• RANÇONNET (Aimar de).
Treasury of the French Language, Both Ancient and Modern. In addition to other things, it includes terms specific to seafaring, hunting, and falconry […] Revised and expanded in this latest edition by more than half. •• MASSET (Jean). An Accurate and Very Easy Guide to the French Language. ••• Ioannis Aegidii Nvceriensis’s Adagia for the Common People […]. •••• JONGHE (Adrien de). An Octolingual Nomenclature Containing the Proper Names of All Things. Paris: David Douceur, Sworn Bookseller, 1606. 4 parts in one folio volume, green morocco, double blind-stamped fillet framing the covers, ribbed spine decorated with the same motif, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru).
• [IV] + 666 + [I] pp.; •• [II] + 32 pp.; ••• 24 pp. & ••• [IV] + 192 + [XXXVI] pp.
• “Revised and expanded in this latest edition by more than half.”
FIRST EDITION with text in two columns.
A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS RARE BOOK.
From the library of Ferdinand Brunetière, with bookplate.
Brunet, VI, 70–72; “The most highly regarded edition of this indispensable book for the study of French authors prior to the 17th century […] It is a very rare work” (Thiébaud, 682–683).
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