102
Dictionnaire
Languedocien-
François.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 164, no. 78, Dictionnaire Languedocien-François, par L. D. S. 8vo.
[BOISSIER
de SAUVAGES de la CROIX, Pierre Augustin.]
Dictionnaire
Languedocien-
François, Contenant un Recueil des principales fautes que commettent, dans la diction & dans la prononciation
françoises, les Habitans des Provinces Méridionales, connues autrefois sous le dénomination générale de la Langue-d’Oc . . . Nouvelle
Édition, Corrigée d’un grand nombre de fautes, augmentée d’environ dix mille articles, & en particulier d’une nombreuse Collection
de Proverbes Languedociens & Provençaux. Par Mr. L. D. S. Tome Premier. [-Second.]
A
Nismes:
Gaude, Pere, Fils & Compagnie, Libraires.
m.dcc.lxxxv
. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roi. [1785.]
PC3446 .S3 1785
8vo. 2 vol. in 1, 214 and 202 leaves, half-title in both volumes, text in double columns.
Barbier I, 979.
Quérard VIII, 485.
Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue, which indicates that it was acquired at the time he was in Europe. It may be that he bought it in Nîmes, the place of publication,
which he visited in 1787.
Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages de la Croix, 1710-1795, French abbé and scholar, was a member of the Société Royale des Sciences de Montpellier, and of other scientific
societies. The first edition of this work was published in Nîmes in 1753.
[4835]
103
Grammatica
Anglo-Saxonica &
Moeso-gothica Hickesii, et
Islandica Jonae.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 122, Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica et Moeso-Gothica, Heckesii, et Islandica Jonae, 4to.
HICKES,
George.
Institutiones Grammaticæ
Anglo-Saxonicæ, et
Mœso-Gothicæ. Auctore Georgio Hickesio Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Presbytero. Grammatica
Islandica Runolphi Jonæ, Catalogus Librorum Septentrionalium. Accedit Edvardi Bernardi Etymologicon Britannicum.
Oxoniæ: E
Theatro Sheldoniano,
1689. Typis Junianis.
PE135 .H55
First Edition. 4to. 3 parts in 1, continuous signatures, separate pagination, together 184 leaves; the first leaf blank on the
recto, Imprimatur dated
Aug. 9, 1688 on the verso, general title as above on the second leaf, the title
for Institutiones Grammaticæ on the third leaf, with an engraved
vignette of
the Sheldonian Theatre, the last leaf of the first signature has
the dedication
to William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury; on P
2 is the title for the Grammaticae
Islandicae by R. Jonas, with a small woodcut of the Sheldonian and the imprint dated
1688; the Catalogus Veterum Librorum Septentrionalium begins on Ii
3 with caption title, and the Etymologicon of Edward Bernard on Qq
1 with a half-title.
Lowndes II, 1065.
STC H1851.
Cambridge Bibl of Eng. Lit. II, 918.
Not in Hazlitt.
Jefferson frequently referred to the work of Hickes in his Essay on Anglo-Saxon, entitled by himself
An Essay (or Introductory Lecture) towards facilitating instruction in the Anglo-Saxon and Modern dialects of the English
Language. for the use of the University of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
. The work of Hickes is used by Jefferson as the background of a part of this Essay, and with regard to his Institutions
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae, he wrote:
Some observations on A-S. grammar may show how much easier that also may be rendered to the English student. D
r. Hickes may certainly be considered as the father of this branch of modern learning. he has been the great Restorer of the
A-S. dialect from the oblivion into which it was fast falling. his labors in it were
