[Rarebooks] FS: Florio's revised Italian-English dictionary. London: 1688-87

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(DICTIONARIES) Florio, John and Giovanni Torriano and John Davis. VOCABOLARIO 
ITALIANO & INGLESE: A DICTIONARY, ITALIAN AND ENGLISH. First Compiled by John 
Florio: and... Diligently Revised, and Compared with La Crusca, and Other 
Approved Dictionaries Since His Death... Whereunto Is Added a Dictionary, English 
and Italian... by Gio. Torriano, and Italian; Some Time Professor of the 
Italian Tongue in London. Now Reprinted, Revised and Corrected, by J. D. M. D. 
[John Davis]. London: Printed by R. Holt, and W. Horton, for R. Chiswell et al. 
1688-1687. Folio (15” tall). 2 vols. in 1, each with its own title page. 
Unpaginated. Triple column text. Bound in modern dark brown buckram (simulated 
leather texture) with red calf spine label.     $1,250.00(trade discount allowed)
The first edition of Florio (1553?-1625) is 1598. It was revised by Torriano 
in 1659. This is the second edition with revisions by Torriano and Davis. Wing 
F1369.

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