85
Baretti’s
Span. &
Eng. dict.
2. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 163, no. 145, Baretti’s Span. and Eng. Dictionary, 2 v fol.
BARETTI,
Giuseppe Marc’ Antonio.
A Dictionary,
Spanish and
English, and
English and
Spanish: Containing The Signification of Words, and their different Uses; Together with The Terms of Arts, Sciences, and Trades;
and The
Spanish Words accented and spelled according to the Regulation of the Royal Spanish Academy of Madrid. The
Second Edition, Corrected and Improved by Joseph Baretti, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.
London: Printed for
J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty.
mdcclxxviii
. [1778.]
PC4640 .A2 B3 1778
2 vol. Folio. 180 and 140 leaves, the last with a list of books printed for
J. Nourse; the Dictionary printed in triple columns, the leaves
unnumbered.
Lowndes I, 113.
Watt I, 71.
Jefferson ordered a copy from
Stockdale of London, in a letter dated from Paris, September 26, 1785. It is entered by him in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
8.5.
For a note on Baretti, see no. 4811 above. No edition earlier than 1778 was recorded in any bibliography or catalogue consulted. The first edition may have appeared
earlier in the same year. The Advertisement at the beginning of this work gives an account of the previous English-Spanish
dictionaries, and the reason for the necessity of a new one, which has been compiled “chiefly by the help of Johnson’s Dictionary
with regard to the English part, and of the Spanish Academicians with regard to the Spanish.”
[4818]
86
Dufief’s Nature displayed.
2. v.
8
vo.
2. copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 79, Dufief’s Nature displayed, adapted to the French Language, 2 v 8vo.
DUFIEF,
Nicolas Gouin.
Nature Displayed, in her Mode of Teaching Language to Man; or, A New and Infalliable Method of Acquiring a Language in the
Shortest Time Possible, Deduced from the Analysis of the Human Mind, and, Consequently Suited to Every Capacity. Adapted to
the
French. By N. G. Dufief, of Philadelphia . . . Vol. I. Containing the Conversation Phrases. [-Vol. II. Containing the Philosophy of Language, and Syntax made Easy.].
Philadelphia: Printed by
Thomas L. Plowman, [Vol. II. by
Thomas S. Manning] for the Author, No. 47, North Third Street.
1804.
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 261 and 230 leaves, the last for the errata in both volumes. Subscribers’ names, headed by
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America--6 copies, on 9 leaves at the end of the second volume.
Dufief had mentioned this work to Jefferson before January 1, 1800, on which day, in a letter to the former, dated from Washington,
Jefferson wrote: “
. . . you will render a good service if you can abridge the acquisition of a new language. it would greatly facilitate our
progress in science, if we could shorten the time necessary for learning the language in which it is described . . .
”
Almost three years later, on November 9, 1802, Dufief wrote to Jefferson a long letter concerning the work, and sent for his
inspection the preliminary discourse: “Il y a près de deux ans que j’eus l’honneur de ”
