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A Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish: containing, The Signification of Words, and their different Uses; together with The Terms of Arts, Sciences, and Trades; and The Spanish Words accented and spelled according to the Regulation of a Royal Spanish Academy of Madrid. A New Edition, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged
by BARETTI, Joseph
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- Hardcover
- first
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London. For F. Wingate, Successor to Mr. Nourse; J. Johnson; J. Sewell; G.G. and J. Robinson. 1800. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 27cm, un-paginated (over 1,000 pp.), triple-column, in contemporary tree calf boards rebacked in on laid brown fabrikoid, original crimson morocco label replaced, inner linen hinges, armorial bookplate, very good (Lgc). Italian art critic, Joseph Baretti (1719-1789) based his dictionary on Delino's Spanish and English Dictionary which he credits as the first edition. A friend and colleague of Samuel Johnson, Baretti drew on Johnson's Dictionary for much of the English part. "He can with truth that he has added little less than ten thousand words, and made many erasures." (Author's preface).
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- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29671
- Title
- A Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish: containing, The Signification of Words, and their different Uses; together with The Terms of Arts, Sciences, and Trades; and The Spanish Words accented and spelled according to the Regulation of a Royal Spanish Academy of Madrid. A New Edition, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged
- Author
- BARETTI, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- London. For F. Wingate, Successor to Mr. Nourse; J. Johnson; J. Sewell; G.G. and J. Robinson. 1800
- Keywords
- DICTIONARY SPANISH ENGLISH PHILOLOGY JOHNSON LEXICOLOGY
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