Specimen lexici comparativi omnium lingarum europaearum
Florentiae - 1847.
- Format : In-4.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 56 pp.
Green half-marble with corners, golden title on a ribbed back, golden imperial eagle on a flat. Silent blanket kept. Golden head. Corners and caps very slightly tired.
Copy with a relay title printed in London, as pointed out by Brunet: the original title was "Vocabularium omnium linguarum europaerum" (same place and date). These comparative tables give the translation of 56 Latin words into 56 European languages.
LIMITED EDITED to 250 copies. after Brunet and a handwritten note by the author contained in another annotated copy from the library of Prince Roland Bonaparte.
Louis-Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), Prince Bonaparte, was a deputy and then a senator of the Second Empire and a philologist, a specialist in the Basque language. Louis-Lucien Bonaparte was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Basque. It was to Basque that he devoted most of his activity.
Copy enriched with a MANUSCRITERY NOTE from Prince Roland Bonaparte indicating the purchase of the work from Quaritch in November 1893.
Ex-libris library Prince Roland Bonaparte.
In very good condition.
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