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raphy. Wherein Each Language is Set forth in its Greatest Latitude: The Various Senses of Words, both Proper and Figurative, Are Orderly Digested; And Illustrated with Apposite Phrases, and Proverbs: The Hard Words Explained; And the Proprieties Adjusted. To Which are Prefixed The Grounds of Both Languages, in Two Grammatical Discourses; The One English, and the Other French. By Guy Miege, Gent. London: Printed by J. Redmayne, for Tho. Basset, at the George near St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street. mdclxxxviii . [1688]
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First Edition. Folio. 2 parts in 1, 310 and 320 leaves unnumbered; general title as above, followed by The Grounds of the French Tongue (a 2, a-e 4, f 2), title for the First Part on f 1, with imprint dated mdclxxxvii , the text of the first part, the French before the English, begins on the following leaf, A 1, ends on Cccc 1; Ccc 2 contains the title for the Second Part, the English before the French, the imprint also dated mdclxxxvii , the Methode Abbregee pour Apprendre l’ Anglois at the beginning of the second part; text of the Dictionary in triple columns.
Lowndes III, 1548.
Hazlitt III, 160.
STC M2012.
Guy Miege, 1644-1718?, a native of Lausanne, left Switzerland for London in 1660. For another work by him, and a note on him, see no. 1449.
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Dufief’s Dictionary Fr. Eng. 3. v. p. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 82, Dictionary Fr. Eng. by Dufief, 3 v 8vo.
DUFIEF, Nicolas Gouin.
A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages: Containing above Fifty Thousand terms and names not to be found in the Dictionaries of Boyer, Perry, Nugent, Tocquot, or any other Lexicographer. To which is added, A Vast Fund of Other Information, equally beneficial and instructive, never before published in any work of this kind. For the use of The French and English Student, the Divine, Civilian, Lawyer, Justice of the Peace, Physician, Surgeon, Mineralogist, Chemist, Botanist, Agriculturalist, Apothecary, Mariner, Soldier, Merchant, Banker, Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Astronomer, Geographer, Historian, Antiquary, Biographer, Architect, Printer, Painter, Manufacturer, Mechanic; and, in fine, For the Benefit of all who may consider a knowledge of either Language an acquisition in their respective situations in life. By N. G. Dufief, Author of “Nature Displayed in her Mode of teaching Language to Man, applied to the French Language.” In Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III]. Philadelphia: Printed by T. & G. Palmer, and for sale by the Principal Booksellers. 1810.
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First Edition. 3 vol. Large 12mo. Vol. I, 44 leaves, French- English, at the end a Vocabulary of Words introduced into the French Language, since the Commencement of the Revolution, and Nomenclature of the Various Sects and Factions that arose in France in consequence of the Revolution; vol. II, 362 leaves, English, French, advertisement of Nature Displayed on the last leaf; vol. III, 324 leaves; French title on the verso of the first leaf in each volume, facing the English title on the recto of the second.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Quérard.
The Table of Contents in Vol. III begins with a Dictionary of Sea Terms and Phrases, French and English, and ends with the French Republican Calendar, which is preceded by a Chronological Table of Remarkable
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