Manual of conversation with models of letters for the use of travellers and students, English - French
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV975.74.3
- Call Number
- 448 CLI
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Publisher
- Garnier Brothers
- Publication Date
- 1913
- Series
- Polyglot guides
- Printer
- Paul Dupont
- Physical Description
- v-vi, 376 p. ; 11 cm.
- Inscription
- inside cover: small, brown book-shaped printed label sticker "LIBRAIRIE DES ECOLES / MAROQUINERIE PAPETERIE [on the left of sticker] E. DELAHAYE / R. Thiers / LE HAVRE" [on the right of sticker] Front endpaper: "A.A. MacNaughton / 1916" [handwritten in black ink on top right corner] "Canadian Base Depot" "Le Havre, France" [handwritten in pencil in the middle of page] "1915-16-17"[handwritten in pencil near bottom of page] inside back cover: "A. MacNaughton, A.A." [handwritten in pencil near top of page]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- French language
- English language
- Object History
- Book belonged to Angus Alexander MacNaughton and appeared to have this book while in France during the First World War.
- Notes
- Author given name and date: Clifton, M. (Ebenezer), 1805-
Nuttall's standard dictionary of the English language : based on the labours of the most eminent lexicographers
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary388
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV989.35.16
- Call Number
- 423 NUT
- Edition
- New ed.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co.
- Publication Date
- 1911
- Printer
- Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
- Physical Description
- vii-x, 816 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Inscription
- inside front page: "Teo Y Pratt [handwritten in pencil] Bradner BC"
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Dictionaries
- English language
- Notes
- "Based on the labours of the most eminent lexicographers". :
- "New and greatly enlarged edition comprising many thousands of new words which modern literature, science, and art have called into existence and common usage with pronunciations, etymologies, definitions, appendices of proper names, illustrations, etc., etc."
- "Revised, extended and improved throughout by the Rev. James Wood".