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Publication dates range from the 1606 Thresor de la langue française, by Aimar de Ranconnet, to the 1901 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. A dozen or so of the dictionaries were published befor...

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries A-1.1 folio BAR

A new and universal dictionary of arts and sciences : containing not only an explanation of the various terms made use of in the following arts and sceinces; but also, whatever else is requisite to render those branches of literature themselves easy and familiar to the meanest capacities... With an introductory preface, tracing the progress of literature from the earliest ages, and enumerating the various improvements made therein, at different periods of time. The whole being a complete body of arts and sciences, as they are at present cultivated. Extracted from the best authors, transactions, memoirs, &c. in several languages ... [etc.]

Barrow, John

1764

By John Barrow.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries A-1.1 folio BAR

A supplement to the New and universal dictionary of arts and sciences

Barrow, John

1754

By John Barrow.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries A-1.29 folio LYE

Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum (v.1)

Lye, Edward (1694-1767); Manning, Owen (1721-1801)

1772

"Supplementum": [21] leaves following regular text. "Apendix in qva continentur fragmenta versionis Ulphilanae: nec non opuscula quedam Anglo-Saxonica": [24] leaves following the Supplementum.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries A-1.29 folio LYE

Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum (v.2)

Lye, Edward (1694-1767); Manning, Owen (1721-1801)

1772

"Supplementum": [21] leaves following regular text. "Apendix in qva continentur fragmenta versionis Ulphilanae: nec non opuscula quedam Anglo-Saxonica": [24] leaves following the Supplementum.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries A-1.4 TAR

The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary (vol.1)

Tarver, J C (1790-1851)

1845-50

Title vignette: coat of arms.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries A-1.4 TAR

The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary (vol.2)

Tarver, J C (1790-1851)

1845-50

Title vignette: coat of arms.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries A-1.927 DIC

A dictionary of words used in the East Indies, with full explanations;... To which is added, Mohammedan law and Bengal revenue terms. With an appendix, containing forms of firmauns, perwanehs, arizdashts, instruments and contracts of law, passports, &c ... [etc.]

1805

Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries B-0 NEU

A marine pocket-dictionary, of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German languages, with an English-French, and French-English index; being a collection of a great variety of the most useful sea-terms in the above idioms

Neuman, Henry

1799

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries B-0 TRE

Tresor en trois langues, françoise, allemande, latine : contenant douze entretiens familiers, un traité de la civilité françoise, & une instruction morale d'un pere a son fils, qui part pour un long voyage: avec une grammaire, & une nomenclature: le tout renferment en abrege... [etc.]

1679

With additional general title-pages in German and Latin.

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries B-0 TRO

Nouveau dictionnaire françois, allemand et polonois : enrichi de plusieurs exemples de l'histoire polonoise, des termes ordinaires des arts et des remarques de grammaire les plis necessaires, avec une liste alphabetique des poetes, et de meilleurs livres polonois (v.1)

Trotz, Michał Abraham (1769)

1744-47

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Archive Print Item: Early Dictionaries B-0 TRO

Nouveau dictionnaire françois, allemand et polonois : enrichi de plusieurs exemples de l'histoire polonoise, des termes ordinaires des arts et des remarques de grammaire les plis necessaires, avec une liste alphabetique des poetes, et de meilleurs livres polonois (v.2)

Trotz, Michał Abraham (1769)

1744-47

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