Les origines de la langue françoise

by Menage, Gilles

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First edition

Paris: Augustin Courbé, 1650. First edition of the first French etymological dictionary, reprinted in 1694 in an enlarged edition in folio, and again in 1750 in 2 volumes folio; 4to, pp. 16 , xxxviii, 2 , 845, 1 , 28 indexes, approbation, and errata; engraved vignette title page after Picart; 19th-century quarter brown calf over marbled boards; edges rubbed and a bit worn, but in all a good, sound copy. Menage 1613-1692 , a man of vast erudition

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