Dictionnaire universel françois et latin, vulgairement appelé Dictionnaire de Trévoux … …

A$4,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Paris : Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1771. Eight volumes, folio (400 x 255 mm), uniform contemporary marbled calf, spines with raised bands decorated in gilt and contrasting title and volume pieces stamped in gilt; edges stained red; original marbled endpapers; title leaves in red and black; engraved headpieces and decorative initials; text in double-columns, printed on wide-margined paper; contents crisp and clean throughout (some occasional and very light spotting); marginal tear to one leaf in second volume; bindings with occasional scuffing or scratches, headcaps expertly restored, cracked joints (some repaired). The final and most comprehensive edition of this famous dictionary. Nouvelle édition corrigée et considérablement augmentée […] contenant la Signification la Définition tant de l’une et de l’autre Langue avec leurs différents usages, que des termes propres de chaque Etat de chaque Profession ; la Description de toutes les choses naturelles et artificielles ; leurs figures, leurs espèces, leurs propriétés : L’Explication de tout ce que renferment les Sciences les Arts, soit libéraux, soit méchaniques, c. [New corrected and considerably enlarged edition […] containing the Meaning Definition both of one and the other Language with their different uses, and of the proper terms of each State each Profession; the Description of all things natural and artificial; their figures, their species, their properties: The Explanation of all that the Sciences and the Arts c

• Binding: Hardcover

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