Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary : whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c., divided into fiftie two sections : with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs, (consisting of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three ... : more over, there are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the Brittish or old Cambrian sayed sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto ... : lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings which, in tract of time, may serve for proverbs to posterity /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English French Italian Spanish Welsh |
| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
1594:7. |
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| Item Description: | Half-title page reads: Howell's dictionary. Engraved illustrated frontispiece. "A particular vocabulary, or, Nomenclature in English, Italian, French, and Spanish," and "Paroimiographia [Greek transliterated], proverbs, or, Old sayed savves & adages" each have special title page dated 1659. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | approximately 823 unnumbered pages in various pagings, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations |