Monde primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne ... / Par M. Court de Gebelin ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 1725-1784.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

9 volumes : frontispieces, illustrations, plates (partly folded) folded maps. ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : Chez l'auteur [etc.], 1773-1782.

Contents:

T. 1. Plan général (with special t.-p.), Allégories orientales (with special t.-p.), Génie allégorique des anciens (1773)

t. 2. Grammaire Universelle (1774)

t. 3. Origin du language et de l'écriture (1775)

t.4. Histoire civile, religieuse et allégorique du calendrier (1776)

t. 5. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue françoise (1778)

t. 6-7. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine (1779-1780)

t. 8. Dissertations melées (1781)

t. 9. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (1782).

Notes:

Vol. 1 issued in 3 pts., the general t.-p. with the third part.

Frontispieces (v. 1-3, 5) by Romanet after Marillier or Bornet; illustrative head-pieces in v. 1-3 by Tomanet, Simonet or Lingée after Marillier, one in v. 5 by Riollet after Bornet; two plates in v. 3 by Devisse.

"Prospectus," 8 p., with approval to print dated April 15, 1772 (2 copies, one annotated); "Programme," 1 leaf, with approval to print dated Oct. 17, 1772 (2 copies); "Programme," 4 p., with approval to print dated Mar. 8, 1772; subscription notice signed "Segaud" and three receipts made out to C.E. Genet, one signed "Court de Gebelin," the others "Segaud pour M. de Gebelin."

Includes bibliographical references and indicies.

OCLC:

7004540