COLLOQUIA ET DICTIONARIOLUM Octo Linguarum, Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae et Portugallicae. Liber omnibus linguarum studiosis domi ac foris apprime necessarius

      COLLOQUIA ET DICTIONARIOLUM Octo Linguarum, Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae et Portugallicae. Liber omnibus linguarum studiosis domi ac foris apprime necessarius. Collogues ou Dialogues, avec un Dictionaire en huit languages, Latin, Flamen, Francois, Alleman, Espagnol, Italien, Anglois & Portuguez: nouvellement reveus, corrigez, & augmentez de quatre dialogues, tres profitables & utils, tant au fait de marchandise, qu'aux voyages & autres traffiques. Colloquien oft tsamensprekinghen, met een Vocabulaer in acht spraken, Latijn, Francois, Neerduy... Rare Vlissingen imprint Flushing, Martinum Abrahami, F. vander Nolck,AMSTERDAM 1631Oblong small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. (208) lvs. Rare Flushing imprint of a popular Colloquia and Dictionary in 8 languages, Latin, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and Portugese, printed in that order in parallel columns over two opposite pages, in four different types to each page, respectively Roman, Italic, Gothic, and Civilité types. According to Claes, Verdeyen, and Van Loonen the first edition, in French and Dutch only, had been published in about 1530, and had been composed by an Antwerp schoolteacher, Noel de Barlaimont. Since then it had been continuously added to and published in a varying numbers of languages, up till the present eight languages. The present edition starts with explaining to the students the importance of language-study, not only for merchants and travellers, but also for the people at court or in the army, and assures the students that they will be taught to speak and write in all the major languages in an easy and inexpensive way, for which they otherwise would have had to pay several expensive language teachers. The book itself is divided in two main parts, the first part containing, in 8 chapters, dialogues in various situations, at the dinner-table, when bying and selling, when pressing for payment, asking for travelling directions and other informations, at an inn, on rising, opening-hours etc., on merchandizing, and writing reports, contracts, receipts of payment etc. The second part then contains a vocabulary of words most in use, also in 8 languages, the alphabet arranged after the Dutch. At the end a short treatise on pronunciation of the French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch language is added. Good copy of a rare edition.- (Binding professionally restored, with new endpapers). Verdeyen 61; Riemens 107 c; Loonen pp. 279-280; Cf. Coll. Warren-Cordell p. 43 (Amsterdam ed. of 1624); Muller 41 (Amsterdam ed. of 1631); NUC lists 1 copy (edition Delft, 1613); On colloquia in general: Bibelebontse Berg pp. 89-90; not in Simoni, nor in Carter-Vervliet.