Duret´s history of languages 1619
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MACCLESFIELD COPY. HISTORY OF LANGUAGES. DURET, CLAUDE. Thresor de l´histoire des langues de cest univers, contenant les origines, beautez, perfections, decadences, mutations, changements, conversions, & ruines des langues... Seconde edition. Yverdon (de l´Imprimerie de la Societé Helvetiale Caldoresque) 1619
4:o (about 237x 165 mm.). (32), 1-888, 899-1030 (pp. 889-898 omitted at printing) pp. 1 folding printed table. Some woodcut alphabets in text.
Contemporary brown mottled calf, worn, gilt double fillets with small fleurons in the corners, cracks in the joints, faded gilt spine in six compartments, damages at head and foot, marbled edges. Some foxing. With engraved bookplate from the library of the Earsl of Macclesfield and their small blindstamp on title and following two leaves.
Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1559.
Originally published in 1620.
The work includes a description of the Chinese language on pp. 900-909 and of Japanese on pp. 909-912.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6030
Datum:
2017-11-21