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[Lexicography] - Colloquia et dictiona[rio]lum octo linguarum; Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teuto...

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[Lexicography] - Colloquia et dictiona[rio]lum octo linguarum; Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teuto...
[Lexicography] - Colloquia et dictiona[rio]lum octo linguarum; Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hi[sp]anicae, Italicae, Anglicae, et Portugallicae (...) = Colloques ou Dialogues, avec un Dictionaire en huict languages (...) = Colloquien oft t'samensprekingen met eenen Vocabulaer in acht spraken (...). Amsterdam, Henricus Laurentii [Leiden, P. Mullerus for], 1622, oblong 8vo, contemp. vellum over boards, flat spine, later flyleaves, [200] ff. (somewhat browning and (damp)stained, traces of use, edges of titleleaf underlaid with loss of a few letters at top). Good copy. € 500/700 Very rare surviving copy of the 8-language pocket conversation manual and dictionary 1st published at Antwerp in 1585. H. Laurentsz. published editions at Amsterdam in 1613, 1622 (this one), 1623 and 1624. Printed in 8 parallel cols. Ownership entries on title and flylvs., pen drawing on lower flyleaf. Ref. Claes, Netherlandic. dict. 2968. STC² 1431.27. STCN (2: Amsterdan and BL London = Goldsmith C-1229a). Not in NUC, Matagne (Namur).