Mercier, Louis Sébastien - Néologie, ou vocabulaire de mots - Lot 275

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Mercier, Louis Sébastien - Néologie, ou vocabulaire de mots - Lot 275
Mercier, Louis Sébastien - Néologie, ou vocabulaire de mots nouveaux, à renouveler, ou pris dans des acceptions nouvelles... Paris, Moussard, Maradan, An IX, 1801. 2 volumes in-8, bound in bluish-gray half-percaline, black titles and giblets - [2 ff.], LXXVI, 334 pp. ; [2 ff.], 534 pp. Portrait-frontispiece of the author engraved by B.L. Henriquez after Pujos. First edition. The author of "Tableau de Paris" delivers here his writing in which his "progressive" spirit shows itself in its least classical or "academician" light, doing innovative work in language research and evolution, far from a "grammarian" attitude to language. This work, virtually ignored during his lifetime, is a veritable "refreshment", combining recourse to ancient texts and authors with his own creative contribution and, at times, the work of a true ethnologist of language.
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