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How to learn 8 languages simultaneously

[LINGUISTICS].
Dictionariolum et colloquia octo languarum, Latine, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae, & Portugallicae. Liber Linguarum, emendatior stylo novissimé dertersarum, studiosis omnibus domi ac foris apprime necessarius. Dictionaire et Colloques en Huit Langues, Latin, Flamen, Francois, Alleman, Espagnol, Italien, Anglois, & Portugues: Nouvellement reveüs coorigez, & augmentez de quatre Dialogues, tres-profitable & util,  tant au faict de marchandise, qu'aux voyages & aultres traffiques.

With fine engraved frontispiece by Lommelin, with the title in Dutch in center with the "Janus-Head" above, and a group of four men talking under a tree at either side.

With fine engraved frontispiece by Lommelin, with the title in Dutch in center with the "Janus-Head" above, and a group of four men talking under a tree at either side.



Antwerp, Henr. Aertsens, 1662. Oblong sm.8vo. 19th-century half morocco. With fine engraved frontispiece by Lommelin, with the title in Dutch in center with the "Janus-Head" above, and a group of four men talking under a tree at either side. 358, (2) pp.

Variant edition of a very popular a popular Colloquia and Dictionary in 8 languages, Latin, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and Portugese, printed in that order in parallel columns over two opposite pages, in four different types to each page, respectively Roman, Italic, Gothic, and Civilité types. According to Claes, Verdeyen, and Van Loonen the first edition, in French and Dutch only, had been published in about 1530, and had been composed by an Antwerp schoolteacher, Noel de Barlaimont. Since then it had been continuously added to and published in a varying numbers of languages, up till the present eight languages.
The book itself is divided in two main parts, the first part containing, in 8 chapters, dialogues in various situations, at the dinner-table, when buying and selling, when pressing for payment, asking for travelling directions and other informations, at an inn, on rising, opening-hours etc., on merchandizing, and writing reports, contracts, receipts of payment, etc. The second part then contains a vocabulary of words most in use, also in 8 languages, the alphabet arranged after the Dutch. At the end an Approbatio and a Privilegium, both dated 1662, and a large treatise on pronounciation.

Good copy of a rare schoolbook.- (Few wormholes in inner margins in a few quires at the middle of the book; sl. cut short).
Verdeyen 96; NUC lists 2 copies.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dictionaries  Dutch  English  French  German  Greek & Latin  Italy  Linguistics  Portugal  Schoolbooks  Spanish 

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