Details

Subject(s)

• Language—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Picture dictionaries, Latin—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Picture dictionaries, German—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Picture dictionaries, French—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Monath, Peter Konrad, active 1713-1747 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Primers (Instructional books) [Browse]
• Annotations [Browse]
• Markings [Browse]
• Marginalia [Browse]

Notes

• Date from Gumuchian, cited below.
• Title pages printed in red and black; verso is blank.
• Illustrations: engraved frontispiece, depicting a master and his students, with the master pointing to a wall-chart of illustrations similar to those on the 71 pages of illustrations in this book, each page with 20-24 small cuts illustrating the words defined on facing pages.
• Alphabetical index of German words defined in text on 24 pages at end.
• Signatures:)(⁴⁻¹ ( - )(4, blank)--A-K⁸ L⁴.
• Cotsen copy: Annotations and marginalia throughout, at head of foot of pages and also within the text, in a contemporary hand; markings on pastedowns.

Binding note

Contemporary half dark brown sheep, with brown sprinkled paper-covered boards; spine blind-ruled with onlay spine label.

References

• Brüggemann, Kinder- und Jugend-literatur, 1570-1750, 711
• Gumuchian & cie. Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle, 5260

Place name(s)

Germany Nuremberg

Other title(s)

• Lateinisch-Teutsch-und Französisches wörter-buch : der lieben jügend nützlichen und ergötzlichen gebrauch
• Primitiva linguae Latinae
• Wörter-Buch

OCLC

1120751023

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