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Lion (Lyon): Chez les Heritiers de Beringos Fratres, a l'Enseigne d'Agrippa, 1752. Original Edition; Not a Reprint. Leather bound. Clean, tight condition internally but for two ex-lib. stamps (St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY) on title page. With an old, faint damp stain to the upper outer page edges through about page 50. Most of the spine is missing, and there is age wear and soiling to covers. The back cover is detached but present.. Tan tooled leather/boards with Greek key motif around edges. Darker leather at spine with gilt delineation lining and borders. Gilt decoration at spine (but nearly all of spine leather is missing). Marbled page edges and end papers. This dictionary, published for the first time in 1718 and in several subsequent editions, "contains a great deal of material on the vulgar language of the 17th century." (Zaunmüller, 142) . Includes quotes from famous works by well-known French writers, including La Fontaine, Molière, Racine, Rousseau and others. A real… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Lyon, France: Beringos, 1752. Hardcover. Good. Full leather boards, octavo, 328pp. + 292pp., not illustrated. Book has crack in spine and joints, leather on spine dry, edges worn with leather chipped away at corners and spine ends, binding tender, previous owner's marks to front pastedown, text clean but toned throughout. Back board detached but present. In archival mylar. Text in French.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Pampelun [Paris]:: N.P., 1786.. New edition corrected and augmented.. 8vo. Two volumes.. Contemporary mottled sheep decorative gilt spines red and green labels rubbed with some minor chipping (see pics). Two volumes. Titles in red & black. Some minor edge wear first volume with top of spine chipped. Overall a very good clean copy and an important contribution to French Lexicography. This edition has been called the most complete. Brunet III: 999.

Lyon: Beringos, 1752. hardcover. very good. Title page printed in red & black, with engraved printers device. 2 volumes bound in one. xiv, [2], 328; [4], 292pp. 8vo, bound in old calf; faded gilt on spine with red leather label (joints neatly repaired; foxing throughout). Lyon: Beringos, 1752. Revised and corrected. Very good.<br/><br/> New edition with revisions and additions.<br/><br/>

1735. Lyon, Beringo, 1735. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Super ex-libris to front board and ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Vague marginal dampstain but overall a nice copy. (4), 668 pp. Later expanded edition of Le Roux's popular dictionary on proverbs originally published in 1718. Le Roux was forced to flee from France to Belgium after publishing a biography critical of François de la Chaise, French Jesuit priest, and confessor of King Louis XIV of France.