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DUFIEF, N[ICHOLAS] G[OUIN]. A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages. Philadelphia: T. & G. Palmer, 1810. 1st ed. 12mo. Old calf, quite worn, one cover detached, some browning, but text very good. $650.00
S & S 20004, calls for three volumes in French. Our set, in English, also calls for three volumes, but the contemporary binding is in five volumes.
Dufief was a Franco-American antiquarian bookseller who dispersed Franklin's library, and a professor of French language. His client and friend Thomas Jefferson pronounced this "the very best French & English dictionary which has ever been published." For Dufief, see Stern, "An Early Bookman of the Republic," American Book Collector, Vol. 6, July 1985-June 1986. Among material included were all the words introduced during the French Revolution, a dictionary of mythology and geography, and a table of events in the American Revolution.