Search Results: Titles starting with I from Patrick Olson Rare Books

INTERLEAVED AND LINGUISTICALLY COMPLEX --- [24], 276 p. | 12mo | a^12 A-L^12 M^6 | 135 x 81 mm --- An early edition of the French Jesuit's bilingual guide to learning Latin vocabulary, which first appeared at Lyon in 1667, also as a bilingual Latin-French work. It went through dozens of editions, in multiple language combinations, through the middle of the 18th century. ¶ In his preface, Pomey opines that the most difficult obstacle to learning Latin is "ignorance of certain words and terms, which usually fall into colloquial speech [discours familier]. These are the names of nearly all the things that we see and touch every hour and every moment" (a4r). Pomey here aims to help the French student learn these words, providing terms in French with their Latin equivalents. He organizes everything not alphabetically, but conceptually, dividing the entirety into three broad categories: the world and its creation, humans and their attributes, and cities and their parts, this final section… Read More