Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary, whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the fowr) belonging to several arts, and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c. Divided to fiftie tw sections; vvith another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the sayed toungs, (consisting of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three, to take off the reproach which useth to be cast upon her, that she is but barren in this point, and those proverbs she hath, are but flat and empty: moreover, ther are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the British, or old Cambrian sayed-sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto, and make intelligible, for their great antiquity and weight: lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings, which, in tract of time, may serve for proverbs to posterity. By the labours, and lucubrations of

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• Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary, whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the fowr) belonging to several arts, and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c. Divided to fiftie tw sections; vvith another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the sayed toungs, (consisting of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three, to take off the reproach which useth to be cast upon her, that she is but barren in this point, and those proverbs she hath, are but flat and empty: moreover, ther are sundry familiar letters and verses running all in proverbs, with a particular tome of the British, or old Cambrian sayed-sawes and adages, which the author thought fit to annex hereunto, and make intelligible, for their great antiquity and weight: lastly, there are five centuries of new sayings, which, in tract of time, may serve for proverbs to posterity. By the labours, and lucubrations of
• English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary; Lexicon tetraglotton, dictionaire François-Italien-Espagnol-Anglois ... Lexicon tetraglotton, vocabulario Inglese-Italiano-Francese-Spagnuolo; Lexicon tetraglotton, vocabulario Español-Inglès-Italiano-Francès; Dictionaire François-Italien-Espagnol-Anglois; Vocabulario Inglese-Italiano-Francese-Spagnuolo; Vocabulario Español-Inglès-Italiano-Francès; Particular vocabulary or nomenclature in English, Italian, French, and Spanish. ... Vocabulario particulare, ô nomenclatura Italiana, Frencese, Spagnuola, Inglese, ... Vocabulaire particulier, ou nomenclature, Françoise, Italienne, Angloise, Espagnole, ... Vocabulario particular, ô nomenclatura Española, Inglese, Italiana, Francese; Nomenclature in English, Italian, French, and Spanish; Vocabulario particulare; Nomenclatura Italiana, Frencese, Spagnuola, Inglese; Vocabulaire particulier; Nomenclature, Françoise, Italienne, Angloise, Espagnole; Vocabulario particular; Nomenclatura Española, Inglese, Italiana, Francese; Paroimiographia. Proverbs, or, Old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung) Italian, French and Spanish; Proverbs, or, Old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung) Italian, French and Spanish; Old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung) Italian, French and Spanish; Proverbs, or Old sayed-savves, and adages in the English toung; Old sayed-savves, and adages in the English toung; Old sayed-sawes, and adages in the English toung; English proverbs, rendred into French, Italian, & Spanish;; Proverbes d'elite, et dictons communs, ou vieux quolibets, en la langue Francoise, dont plusieurs vont glossez; Proverbi gli più scelti nella lingua Italiana de i quali alicuni glossati; Refranes o proverbios en romance, ò la lengua Castellana; Diharebion Cymraeg vvedu ei cyfiethu yn saisineg; Diharebion Cymraeg vvedu ei cyfiethu yn saisineg; Divers centuries of nevv sayings, vvhich may serve for proverbs, to posterity; Divers centuries of new sayings, which may serve for proverbs, to posterity

People / Organizations

• James Howell (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by Thomas Leach, [1660]

Publication year

1660

ESTC No.

R221326

Grub Street ID

95499

Description

[6], 4, [626], 24, 10, [8], 28, [8], 24, [8], 32, [8], 40, [4], 10 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 2°

Note

Publication date from Wing, which indicates that imprint date appears on title page

"Paroimiographia" also separately as Wing (2nd ed.) H3098; first word of title in Greek characters.