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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... ceux de la Henriade travestie de Marivaux, suivie du quatrieme livre de l'fineide de Virgile. No place, 1798. 12mo, half calf. This translation is by Faucon. At the end will be found a collection of the poems in Auvergnat by MM. Pasturel. Rare. LIMOUSIN. 3947 BE'RONIE (N.). Dictionnaire du patois du Bas-Limousin (Correze). Tulle, n.d. 4to, half calf. 3948 FOUCAUD (J.). Poesies en patois limousin. E'dition philologique completement refondue pour l'orthographe, augmentee...
Excerpt from Attempt at a Catalogue of the Library of the Late Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte It will always be a matter of regret to philologists that the late Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte left his library uncatalogued. Throughout a long life the Prince devoted his best energies and talents to the formation of what he hoped would be the finest linguistic collection of works yet gathered together. Many great authorities, well qualified to give an expert opinion, are agreed in thinking that he succeeded in his ambition. He certainly had exceptional advantages for his task, advantages which it is extremely unlikely to find again united in a single individual. His great philological enthusiasm ...
This is the first biography of the father of descriptive ornithology, the author of American Ornithology or The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson,, an electee to the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and last, Emperor Napoleon's nephew. Stroud, an independent scholar, uses archival sources, including unpublished letters in possession of the Bonaparte family, to tell the story of a man forced by the circumstances of his birth and by the liberality of his views to move from France, to the U.S., to Italy, and back to France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR