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Le Jardin des Racines Greques
1739906P60Paris: C. L. Thiboust 1739. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4". None. A charming poetical guide to the Grecian roots of the French language by Claude Lancelot. In the original French.A charming work on Greek language by Claude Lancelot first published in 1657 as 'Racines Grecques de Port-Royal'. This volume explores the Grecian roots of words in the French language put to veerse for easy learning.Including a treatise on prepositions and other particles and an alphabetical collection of French words taken from Greek.This edition is revised corrected and expanded.Lancelot was a Jansenist monk and grammarian. In a full contemporary calf binding. Externally a little worn. Loss and lifting to the head and tail of the spine. Rubbing and a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Lacking the spine label. Lacking the endpapers. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean with a few light handling marks. Edge wear to the final leaf of text. Chip to the tail of the title page no loss of text. Good C. L. Thiboust hardcover
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