[Rarebooks] FS: Minsheu's dictionary "Guide Into the Tongues". London: 1625

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(DICTIONARIES) Minsheu, John. THE GUIDE INTO THE TONGUES [Title in English 
and Latin]. With Their Agreement and Consent One With Another, as Also Their 
Etymologies... in These Nine Languages, viz. 1. English. 2. Low Dutch. 3. High 
Dutch. 4. French. 5. Italian. 6. Spanish. 7. Latine. 8. Greeke. 9. Hebrew, Etc. 
Which Are So Laid Together (for the Helpe of Memorie)... Also the Exposition 
of the Termes of the Lawes of This Land Drawne from Their Originall the Saxon 
and Norman Tongues... The Second Edition. London: Sold at John Brownes shop. 
1625. Folio (15-3/4” x 10-1/2”). (6),(380)pp. Double column text, consisting of 
760 numbered columns. With the 5 column leaf, “A Catalogue and True Note of 
the Names of Such Persons...” Two woodcut headpieces and 2 large pictorial 
capitals. Cont. calf, worn, rebacked in period style, brown calf spine label. 
Large gilt tooled royal armorial device on both covers. First two leaves a bit 
browned.     $1,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work was first published in 1617. Our 1625 edition is the fourth 
printing. STC# 17945.5 (with the added leaf, given its own STC #17944a[#9]). Only 3 
copies of this issue recorded in America.

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