Swenskt dialect lexicon, hvarutinnan uppteknade finnas the ord och talesatt..

by Johann Ihre

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Upsala: 1766. First edition of the first dictionary of Swedish dialect, based on the collections of Benzelius, sm. 4to, pp. 12 , 200; text in double column; some wear along the spine, but a nice copy in original drab paper wrappers. This is Ihre's first major work; he would later assemble, with Sven Hof and Abraham Sahlstedt, the Glossarium Suiogothicum 1769 , a work highly praised by Jamieson, and of which Boucher said: One of the best dictionaries of any language in Europe; it is a

• Binding: Wrappers

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