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Dictionary of maritime terms by David Franco Mendes



Dictionnaire/ de/ Marine/ contenant/ L’Art de la Navigation/ et L’Architecture Navale/ Expliqué par toutes les Deffinitions & les Phrases qui regardent/ les diverses Espèces, des Bâtiments, les parties du Vaisseau, le Detail de La/ Manoeuvre, e les fonctions des officiers de la marine e des officiers Mariniers,/ Dans la langue Françoise/ Holandese, Portugaise/ et Espagnole/ Par/ David Franco Mendes./ Translateur Autorisé par le Noble Magistrat/ de cette ville/ D’Amsterdam A[nn]o 1780.

Dictionary of maritime terms by David Franco Mendes. Amsterdam, 1780.

In this large-scale dictionary with 402 double-columned pages, the terms in French are in alphabetical order and alongside them appear the Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish translations. At the end a printed example for the insurance of a ship is bound.

Contents:

p. [1]: Title page.

p. 1-403: Text.

p. 405: Declaration by clerks and merchants from Amsterdam certifying the authenticity of a document (probably the following insurance). Text in French.

p. 405*: Printed example for the insurance of a ship. Text in Dutch.


French, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish / Paper / 32,1 x 21,6 cm. / [198] ff. (2 first ll. and f. 1v, 2, 45v-46v, 57v, 198v blank / Current writing (autogr.) / Contemporary vellum binding.


Fuks 446. Kaplan 175. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.


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