RICHELET (Pierre). Dictionnaire françois, contenant les mots - Lot 219

RICHELET (Pierre). Dictionnaire françois, contenant les mots et les choses, plusieurs nouvelles remarques sur la langue françoise : ses expressions propres, figurées & burlesques, la prononciation des mots les plus difficiles, le genre des noms, le régime des verbes : avec les termes les plus connus des Arts & des Sciences. Geneva, Jean- Herman Widerhold, 1679-1680. Two parts in one vol. large in-8° of 10 ff. 480 pp. ; 560 pp. Covered ivory vellum, visible seams, handwritten title on spine, speckled edges (Binding of the period). 1st edition. Rare, complete with its two volumes of this first French dictionary of definitions. As the Académie Française alone had the privilege of ensuring French lexicographical production, the first edition of this work appeared in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1680. Ex-libris ms. "Wattervigle. 1686" then "Wyttenbach. 1783" [Daniel WYTTENBACH (1746-1820), Hellenist, philologist and archaeologist born in Bern. He was a professor in Amsterdam and Leiden], and Baron "de Watterville. 1861 ". From the library of Colonel Gabriel de WATTEVILLE (1711-1778), chatelain of Beaumont, member of the Sovereign Council of Bern, and of Barons Oscar and Olivier de WATTEVILLE, with their engraved bookplates. Stained vellum, some freckling. A good copy of this rare edition, with a remarkable provenance.