1673 IDIOMS Famed Phrases Cicero Erasmus Beza Ovid BIBLE House Stuart Provenance

1673 IDIOMS Famed Phrases Cicero Erasmus Beza Ovid BIBLE House Stuart Provenance

William Walker’s “Idiomatalogia” is a rare, 17^th-century collection of Latin and English idioms. Walker, an English school teacher, wanted to provide his students with clarity on many of the phrases they were saying, often misinterpreting. He states in his preface his intention:

“I found a need and want of such a book as this – a book to direct and help young scholars to render idioms of the English tongue according to the propriety of the Latin [from] ridiculous barbarisms.”

Many of the phrases and idioms are from famous sources including Junius, Erasmus, Beza, Martial, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Ovid, Tacitus, the Bible, and many others.

This 1673 edition contains both English and Latin translations with the English in black letter.

Item number: #26754

Price: $599

WALKER, William

Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina, sive, Dictionarium idiomaticum Anglo-Latinum in quo phrases

Londini: Typis J. Macock, Josephi Clark, Little Britain, 1673.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 508
  • Added, engraved title page
• Provenance:
  • Armorial Bookplate – Strathallan
    • Coat of arms of the Viscount of Strathallan. William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan (1690–1746), a Scottish peer and Jacobite. Though he had been pardoned for his part in the 1715 Rising, Lord Strathallan raised a troop of cavalry for Prince Charles in 1745 and was appointed Jacobite Governor of Perth. While the main army invaded England, he remained in Scotland to recruit additional troops. He died at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. His eldest son James (1722-1765) also took part in the Rising and escaped to France. He was attainted in July 1746, losing titles and lands; his estates were repurchased by the family when he died in 1765 and the titles restored in 1824.
  • Handwritten – Donald Fraser
  • Handwritten – Robert Lunan, 1796
• Language: Latin / English in parallel
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7in X 4.5in (17.5cm x 11.5cm)

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