ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE. Dictionary. - Lot 121

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ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE. Dictionary. - Lot 121
ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE. Dictionary. Paris, Firmin Didot frères, from 1835 to 1836. 3 volumes, in-4, full marbled tan calf, smooth spines decorated with gilded fillets and fleurons, red leather title-pieces, speckled edges, pebbled back covers. XXXII - 1 f.n.ch. - 911 ; 961 ; XII - 861 pages. 3 engraved illustrative vignettes on title page. First volume spine partially detached, corners dulled, slight spotting on boards, second volume jaws split, third volume spine rebacked, second volume cover slightly twisted, scattered freckling, especially in third volume. Sixth edition, published in 1835, of the "Dictionnaire de l'Académie française", preceded by a long preface on the history of the French language and its mutations. Accompanied by a supplementary volume of all French dictionaries, ancient and modern, containing five or six thousand more words than any dictionary of the French language up to that time, recognized or adopted by scholars, with new terms in medicine and chemistry, unpublished sects, details of ancient mythologies, terms of ancient rights, numismatics, etc. Period bindings, interiors well preserved.
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