Marin (Pieter) Groot Nederduitsch en Fransch Woorden-Boek, 'seconde edition' [but third edition], 1730; Dictionnaire Complet François et Hollandois, third edition, ownership inscription dated 1749 to pastedowns, some marginal damp-staining/mottling, lower hinge cracked but holding, loss to most of marbled paper to boards, uncut, 1743, both with engraved additional title with facing explanation f., titles printed in red and black, engraved bookplate of Hope of Craighall, occasional spotting, light browning, contemporary pink-stained pigskin-backed boards, spines with small old sticker to foot and faded, very worn, Dordrecht, Joannes van Braam & Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor, G. onder de Linden & Jan van Eyl § Sacrobosco (Iohannes) Sphaera...Opera & studio Franconis Burgersdicii, fourth Elzevir edition, woodcut printer's device to title, numerous woodcut illustrations, bookplate of James S. Dearden, title with later ink date to foot and portion of loss, mainly marginal but slightly affecting printer's device, final f. with loss to foot but seemingly no text loss, some light soiling, water-stained, later brown half morocco, little rubbed, [Willems 791], Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Jean Elzevir, 1656; and an incomplete set of the translation of Shakespeare's Plays into Dutch (1778-82), v.s. (7)
⁂ The first mentioned the ‘seconde edition’, but actually the third, of this Dutch-French dictionary, accompanied by the third edition of the companion volume from French-Dutch. They are especially valuable in providing technical translations for many specialist terms used in the trades, industries, crafts and commerce of the eighteenth century.
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