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| LUDWIG (CHRISTIAN): Deutsch-Englishes Lexicon, Worinnen nicht allein die Wörter, samt den Nenn-, Bey-und Sprich-Wörtern ; sondern auch so wol die eigentliche als verblümte Redens-Arten verzeichnet sind. Aus den besten Scribenten und vorhandenen Dictionariis mit grossem Fle Leipzig ben Thomas Fritschen, 1716. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 252 x 192 mms., pp. [5], [2] - 2671, title-page in red and black, engraved portrait of George I; short tear in upper margin of frontispiece and title-page. BOUND WITH: LUDWIG (Christian): A Dictionary English, German and French, Containing not only the English words in their Alphabetical Order, together with their several signfications, but also their proper Accent, Phrases, Figurative Speeches, Idioms, & Proverbs, Taken from the best new English dictionaries. English-Teutsch-Frantzosisch Lexicon, Worinnen nicht allein die Englischen worte in ihrer geborigen ordnung, samt ihrer verschiedenen bedeutung, sondern auch der wrote eigenticher accent, und die figulichen redens-arten idiotismi imd sprichwprter emtja;tem somd. Aus den besten und neuesten Englischen Dictionariis Verfertiget von M. Christian Ludwig. Leipzig, Ben Thomas Fritschen, 1706. 4to, pp. [xii], 786, title-page in red and black, engraved portrait of Sophia, Fürstin von Braunschweig; title-page browned, occasional water-staining to upper margins. 2 volumes in 1, a thick, heavy quarto bound in contemporary vellum; base of spine chipped, small hole in centre of spine, somewhat shaken in casing. "The first decades of the 18th century are marked by two outstanding lexicographical works, Christian Ludwig's A Dictionary English, German and French, published in 1706, and his Teutsch-Englisches Lexicon, published in 1716. Though the former includes French as well, it has to be regarded as the first English-German Dictionary..." (Gabriele Stein. "English-German, German-English Lexicography: Its Early Beginnings," Lexicographica 1985 (1), pp. 148-149). Although the two dictionaries were published ten years apart, they are usually considered to be one work; catalogued in order of appearance in volume, with the later volume coming first. Alston, II. 112 and XIII 27. OCLC locates copies of the first item in UC, Berkeley, Chicago, Case Western Reserve, Penn State, Saint Olaf (MN), Stanford, Yale, Lutheran Theological Seminar; and the Bodleian. ESTC T190376 locates copies of the second item in the BL, National Library of Wales, Glasgow, and the Bodleian; and Huntington, Illinois (Urbana), Duke, and Wisconsin (Madison) in North America. GBP 440.00 [Appr.: EURO 488 US$ 730.84 | JP¥ 64567] Book number: 5944 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. | ||
| POLITE LITERATURE. The Gentleman and Lady's Key to Polite Literature: or A Compendious Dictionary of Fabulous History, Containing the Characters, and principal Actions, ascribed to the Heathen Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, &c and the manner in which the Ancients represented the London, Printed for T. Carnan..., 1788. 12mo (in 6s), 140 x 88 mms., unpaginated, pp. [256], engraved title-page and engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin, morocco label; lacks any blank leaves at end, short tear in fore-margin of frontispiece but not into plate area, binding a little rubbed and worn. With a presentation bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, "John R. McC/ to Jack N. McC" and dated 1913. The anonymous compilers speak of themselves in the plural, and the emphasis is on mythology and fable. The publisher, Carnan, was also the publisher in 1775 of one of the earliest editions of Goody Two-Shoes; this work was first published by Newbery in 1760. Roscoe J145(6). ESTC distinguishes between two issues, this one N7923 (copies in National Trust, University of Bristol; UCLA; Victoria); and another with a slightly different registration on the last leaf, T95395 (BL, Bodleian (2); Stony Brook). GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 305 US$ 456.78 | JP¥ 40354] Book number: 6307 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. |
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