Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

in England of the application of historical lexicography, with the aim of
showing the life history of every word, its origin and any changes of form
and meaning. He used quotations not to deWne the words, but to show
historical changes of sense. Trench was actively involved in the early stages
of the New English Dictionary (later Oxford English Dictionary), which was
based entirely on these principles.
Kennedy 1805.
314 VATER, Johann Severin. Grammaire abrégé de la Langue
Polonoise, consistant en Tableaux, Règles et Exemples. Halle, J. J.
Gebauer and Strasbourg, Levrault, 1807. £300
8vo, pp. [ii], vi, [7]–46, [2] errata and advice to the binder, 4 large
folding printed tables; paper a little browned and spotted due to paper
stock; uncut in the original wrappers; wrappers frayed and back strip
very worn; still a good copy.
First edition in French of this scarce Polish grammar, which was simultaneously
published in German. Vater (1771–1826), a professor of philosophy
and theology at Halle, wrote a number of works on philology, was a collaborator
of Rask’s and completed Adelung’s Mithridates.
NUC locates four copies (ICN, MB, NjP, CtY).
315 VENERONI, Giovanni. Des berühmten Herrn von Veneroni
viel-vermehrt-verbessert- und vollkommener Sprach-Meister. Zu
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fertig-gründlich und baldiger Erlernung dreyer Europäischer Hauptsprachen,
der Italiänisch-Deutsch und Französischen. Frankfurt am
Mayn und Leipzig, Joh. Phil. Andreä, 1702. £450
8vo, pp. xii (including double-page frontispiece and double-page title
page), 480; title printed in red and black, folded in at foot, frayed, with
loss of a small portion at outer corner, no loss of text; frontispiece of an
attractive Venice view, by I. Montalegre; preliminaries with short worm
trace in lower margin, just touching a couple of letters; very occasional
light browning to paper; bound in contemporary buV coloured boards,
extremities a little rubbed, but holding Wrm; a good copy.
Early edition of Veneroni’s classic introduction to the Italian language, specially
adapted for German readers. A brief introduction to Latin and French
for ‘Ladies’ and others without a classical education is followed by chapters
on the basics of Italian pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. The main
innovative feature of this guide to Italian is its organisation by subject matter.
This applies both to the vocabulary section, and to the sample dialogues.
Extensive sections of the vocabulary are devoted to food and drink,
its ingredients and preparation. A useful section deals with the appropriate
forms of address for diVerent ranks of society, both verbal and in letters and
other correspondence.
Veneroni’s guide to the Italian language became a much-reprinted classic.
No earlier edition located in NUC, which just lists single locations for the editions
of 1719 (KAS), 1755 (InU), 1763 (ICU), 1779 (Plats), and 1789 NN.
316 VENERONI, Giovanni. The Complete Italian Master;
containing the best and easiest Rules for Attaining that Language...
London, Wingrave and Collingwood, 1818. £80
8vo, pp. [iv], 440; bound in contemporary marbled sheep, spine ruled
in gilt; an attractive copy.
First published in 1711, Veneroni’s Complete Italian Master went through
numerous editions in English, and covers grammar, syntax, vocabulary and
Italian-English dialogues. The translator and editor praises amongst other
additions to the English translation, the ‘Discourse of Expletives, the energy
and beauty of which constitute a great part of the merit of most languages’.
Alston XII (2) 48*.
Handbook of Venetian Families
317 [VENICE.] Memorie concernenti l’Origine delle Famiglie de’
Veneti Cittadini estratte da due Codici del XVI secolo. Venezia,
Giuseppe Bettinelli. 1775. £420
8vo, pp. 64, title page vignette; uncut in the original buV stiV wrappers;
lower corner of back wrapper torn oV; a good copy.