Author: VELAZQUEZ DE LA CADENA, Mariano
Title: A Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, Abridged from the Author's Larger Work
Description: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full calf, blind ruled and embossed, with gilt-lettered green calf spine label. vi, 455pp, viii, pp. 459-847, pp. 18-25 ads. Large foldout table, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Tight hinged and attractive, with mild binding edgewear and touch of scuffing. Tiny convent name/address inkstamp and pencilled ownership signature on title page; couple pencilled notes on rear inner flyleaf from early owner. A nice early printing of, as title page subtitles it, "Seoame's Neuman and Baretti, Abridged by Velazquez," a thick dictionary offered "In Two Parts: I. Spanish-English. II. English-Spanish" -- part I being the first 456 pages, Part II (with second title page, in Spanish) the remainder. Velazquez (1778-1860) was a pioneering Mexican grammarian, scholar and author, long-time Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Columbia College in New York (1830-60) and his dictionaries became the model for Spanish-English dictionaries. Title page also bears inked ownership signature of W. Ormsby Watts, who was a CSA ordnance officer under General Tilghman with Loring's Division in the Army of the Tennessee during the Civil War. A superb example. .
Keywords: Literary Criticism
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Title: A Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, Abridged from the Author's Larger Work
Description: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full calf, blind ruled and embossed, with gilt-lettered green calf spine label. vi, 455pp, viii, pp. 459-847, pp. 18-25 ads. Large foldout table, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Tight hinged and attractive, with mild binding edgewear and touch of scuffing. Tiny convent name/address inkstamp and pencilled ownership signature on title page; couple pencilled notes on rear inner flyleaf from early owner. A nice early printing of, as title page subtitles it, "Seoame's Neuman and Baretti, Abridged by Velazquez," a thick dictionary offered "In Two Parts: I. Spanish-English. II. English-Spanish" -- part I being the first 456 pages, Part II (with second title page, in Spanish) the remainder. Velazquez (1778-1860) was a pioneering Mexican grammarian, scholar and author, long-time Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Columbia College in New York (1830-60) and his dictionaries became the model for Spanish-English dictionaries. Title page also bears inked ownership signature of W. Ormsby Watts, who was a CSA ordnance officer under General Tilghman with Loring's Division in the Army of the Tennessee during the Civil War. A superb example. .
Keywords: Literary Criticism
Price: US$ 275.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50269
- Book number: 50269
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