Robert Ainsworth, 1660-1743, English lexicographer. The first edition of his
Thesaurus was published in 1736. It is inscribed to Dr. Richard Mead in a Latin dedication. Editions were printed in 1746, 1751, 1752,
etc.
Thomas Morell, 1708-1784, English classical scholar, was born at Eton. His first edition of Ainsworth’s
Thesaurus was published in 1773. Morell wrote and edited works for use at Eton, which accounts for Pote’s name in the imprint of this
book.
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70
Ainsworth’s dict.
Lat.
Eng. abridged.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 163, no. 69, Ainsworth’s Lat. and Eng. Dictionary abridged, 2 v 8vo.
This entry is checked in the contemporary working copy of the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815, denoting that the copy
had been received. There is no entry for the book in any later catalogue; the book must have disappeared sometime between
1815 and 1830, the date of the next catalogue. It is not entered in the manuscript list of missing books made some time between
those dates. This may have been the copy bound for Jefferson by Milligan in 1808, see the previous entry.
The copy ordered by Jefferson from
Joseph Milligan, in a letter dated from Monticello, August 11, 1815, shortly after the arrival of his library in Washington, was for his
own use: “
. . . I must ask you to send me . . . the 8
vo. abridgment of Ainsworth’s dictionary. this last to be bound in two separate volumes, to wit, the Latin & English part in
1. vol. & the English & Latin & other parts in a 2
d. vol . . .
”
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71
Della lingua Toscana del Buommatei.
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 164, no. 74, as above.
BUOMMATTEI,
Benedetto.
Della Lingua
Toscana di Benedetto Buommattei Pubblico Lettore d’Essa Nello Studio Pisano, e Fiorentino Libri Due. Aggiuntevi in fine molte Regole, ed Osservazioni d’alcuni
Celebri Autori. Ultima Impressione Veneta più accurata, e con particolar diligenza ricorretta.
In
Venezia,
mdccxxxv
. Per
Gasparo Girardi. Con Licenza de’ Superiori, e Privilegio. [1735.]
4to. 2 parts in 1, 128 and 46 leaves; half-title on Q
7 for Aggiunta di Regole, e Osservazioni di Varj Autori Intorno Alla Lingua
Toscana, Tavola on Q
8, text begins on the next leaf, A
1 with separate signatures and pagination; text in double columns throughout; at the beginning the Vita di Benedetto Buommattei Scritta da Dalisto Narceate Pastore Arcade [G. B. Casotti].
This edition not in Brunet, Graesse, Ebert.
Benedetto Buommattei, 1581-1647, Italian grammarian. The first editon of this work was published in 1643.
Giovanni Battista Casotti, 1669-1737, Italian scholar.
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72
Grammaire
Italienne d’Antonini.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 21, as above.
ANTONINI,
Annibale.
Grammaire
Italienne pratique et raisonnée, par M. l’abbé Antonini. Nouvelle Edition, revue et corrigée par M. Conti.
Lyon:
P. Duplain,
1763.
12mo. A copy was not available for examination; the above title is taken from that in the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
This edition not in Quérard.
Not in Graesse.
Not in Ebert.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Annibale Antonini, 1702-1755, Italian scholar and abbé, lived in France during a period of years, teaching the Italian language. He compiled
an Italian-French dictionary, and was the author of several other books as well as the editor of a number of the classics.
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