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SERIE di molti vocaboli Italiani, che mancano nel dizionario Inglese con la loro versione.
Venice, Antonio Zatta, 1771. Only edition; 12mo, pp. [2] [1]-116; the leaf following the title bears a (undecipherable by me) cryptogram; full contemporary vellum, red morocco label on spine; orig. ribbon marker intact. Alston XII, 79 locating only the Berkeley and Univ. Minn. copies; NUC the same. “Apparently published as a criticism of Baretti's Italian-English dictionary, which was first published in 1760 and appeared in a new edition in 1771. However, most of the words listed are either archaic or variants (istare for stare; percuratore for procuratore), both categories which Baretti viewed as having no place in a modern dictionary, and for the inclusion of which he vigorously attacked the Crusca” (Thomson).
Offered for US$ 1000.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 12419