Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 805
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
COOPER, THOMAS. Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae . . . Accessit Dictionarium historicum & poëticum. Partly printed in black letter. Folio, late 18th-/early 19th-century diced russia, rebacked at an early date, extremities rubbed; contents browned, blank outer margin of title and next leaf trimmed, few minor marginal repairs not affecting text, 6I2.5 folded backwards, lacks initial and final blanks. London: (Henry Bynneman), 1584

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Fourth edition of a Latin-English dictionary first published in 1565. The glossary of place and personal names at end includes a definition of America as "a countrie late founde in the west part of the worlde by Americus Vesputius, the yeare of our Lorde, 1477." STC 5689.