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Dictionnaire de Moreri avec deux supplements. 10. v. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 162, as above.
MORERI, Louis.
Le Grand Dictionnaire historique ou le mélange curieux de l’Histoire sacrée et profane . . . tirées du Dictionnaire critique de M. Bayle, par M re. Louis Moreri . . . Nouvelle . . . édition . . . [par Louis François Joseph de La Barre, avec le collaboration de l’abbé Jean Le Clerc et de M. Vailly.] Paris: J. B. Coignard [or D. Mariette], 1725-- Supplément au Grand Dictionnaire . . . de M. Louis Moreri, pour servir à la dernière édition de l’an 1732 . . . [Par l’abbé C. P. Goujet.] Paris: la Veuve Lemercier, 1735.-- Nouveau Supplément au Grand Dictionnaire . . . de M. Louis Moréri . . . [Par l’abbé Goujet.] Paris: J. Vincent, 1749.
Together 10 vol. Folio. No copy of this edition was located for collation.
Quérard VI, page 313.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 8.0. (livres).
Louis Moreri, 1643-1680, French polygraph, was a native of Provence. The first edition of his Dictionnaire was published in Lyons in 1674. Copies of the 1725 edition, which was the finest that had appeared to that time, have the imprint of Coignard or of Mariette.
Louis François Joseph de La Barre, 1688-1738, French scholar, the editor of the edition of 1725.
Claude Pierre Goujet, 1697-1767, abbé, French historian and man of letters. This is the first edition of his first supplement to Moreri’s Dictionnaire. The second supplement was originally published in 1748.
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Collier’s historical dict. 4. v. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 163, as above.
MORERI, Louis--COLLIER, Jeremy.
The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History . . . Collected from the best Historians, Chronologers, and Lexicographers; as Calvisius, Helvicus, Isaacson, Marsham, Baudrand, Hoffman, Lloyd, Chevreau, and others; But more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; In Two Volumes in Folio . . . The First [-Second] Volume. The Second Edition Revis’d, Corrected and Enlarg’d to the Year 1688; By Jer. Collier, A.M. -- A Supplement to the Great Historical . . . Dictionary . . . Together with a Continuation from the Year 1688, to this Time, by another Hand. -- An Appendix to the Three English Volumes in Folio of Morery’s Great Historical . . . Dictionary . . . By Jer. Collier, A.M. London: Vol. I and II for Henry Rhodes, Thomas Newborough, the Assigns of L. Meredith, and Elizabeth Harris, 1701; Supplement, for Henry Rhodes and Thomas Newborough, 1705; Ap-
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