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ESTIENNE, ROBERT. Dictionarium Latinogallicum. Paris: Robert Estienne, September 1538. Folio, 301 x 206 mm. (11 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.), eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt in compartments, red-stained edges, lacking lettering-piece, worn, inner hinges split, title stained, occasional marginal dampstaining, small marginal wormhole through quires E-H, lacking final blank leaf. FIRST EDITION, double column, Latin text in roman type, French text in italic, woodcut printer's device on title, large criblé floral initials.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT ESTIENNE'S FIRST BILINGUAL DICTIONARY, published as a successor to his pioneering and hugely successful Latin Thesaurus (1531), and employing the same innovative lexicological principles: "contrary to the practice of his predecessors, he based his vocabulary exclusively on classical authors... he clarified the meaning of the words by citing reputable authorities... and he illustrated the correct usage of words and phrases by ample quotations from classical sources" (PMM). The present dictionary, enlarged editions of which appeared in 1543, 1546, and 1549 (in a French-Latin version), served as the model for later sixteenth-century Latin-German, -Flemish, and -English dictionaries. No copies of this edition have come on the market in the past 50 years, according to ABPC; NUC lists 2 copies. Adams S-1803; PMM 62b; Renouard Estienne p. 46.4.
Provenance: "Degeres fils", eighteenth-century signature on title.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT ESTIENNE'S FIRST BILINGUAL DICTIONARY, published as a successor to his pioneering and hugely successful Latin Thesaurus (1531), and employing the same innovative lexicological principles: "contrary to the practice of his predecessors, he based his vocabulary exclusively on classical authors... he clarified the meaning of the words by citing reputable authorities... and he illustrated the correct usage of words and phrases by ample quotations from classical sources" (PMM). The present dictionary, enlarged editions of which appeared in 1543, 1546, and 1549 (in a French-Latin version), served as the model for later sixteenth-century Latin-German, -Flemish, and -English dictionaries. No copies of this edition have come on the market in the past 50 years, according to ABPC; NUC lists 2 copies. Adams S-1803; PMM 62b; Renouard Estienne p. 46.4.
Provenance: "Degeres fils", eighteenth-century signature on title.