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Howell (James) Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish
Engraved frontispiece by W. Faithorne with allegories for English, Italian, French, and Spanish" and "Paroimiographia” languages; engraved portrait of James Howell by C. Melan and Bosse; armorial bookplate for W. T. R. Lowell to front pastedown; manuscript inscriptions in titlepage; contemporary calf binding, worn, blind tooling, raised bands; edges trimmed with loss to titlepage, browning, tears in text; lacking the Vocabulary and Nomenclature, as well as proverbs; folio; London: [printed for Thomas Leach, 1660]
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Florio (John) & Torriano (Gio) Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese: A Dictionary of Italian and English
Lacking final blank; Calf binding, blind tooled, spine gilt with raised bands, rebacked with original binding placed on top; foxing, with small repairs; folio; London: printed by R. Holt, and W. Horton, for R. Chiswell, T. Sawbridge, G. Wells, and R. Bentley; 1688
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Minsheu (John) Minshaei emendatio, vel à mendis expurgatio, seu augmentatio sui Ductoris in linguas, The guide into tongues.
Second edition, calf binding, worn, spine with raised bands and blind tooling, very worn, front board detached, in clamshell box, damp staining and small tears to margins; folio; London: printed by Iohn Hauiland, 1627
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