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MANUAL OF LATIN Exposition of a reasoned method for learning the Latin language Paris, by Michel-Etienne David, 1758. In-8, full red morocco with the arms of the Duke of Burgundy. Triple fillet on the boards stamped with the arms in their center, decorated covers, interior scroll, gilt edges. 85, [3] pp. Bound with the arms of the Duke of Burgundy. Louis-Joseph-Xavier François, duke of Burgundy (1751- 1761) was the older brother of the future Louis XVI. One can easily imagine that this volume was bound for the study of young Latinist. We know of other manuals which were intended for him, for example this Dictionnaire universel françois et latin, tiré des meilleurs auteurs. Dedicated to Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne by R.P. Le Brun, of the Society of Jesus. This moving volume was not long used by the little boy who died on Easter night 1761, from the disastrous consequences of a bad wound.
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MANUAL OF LATIN Exposition of a reasoned method for learning the Latin language Paris, by Michel-Etienne David, 1758. In-8, full red morocco with the arms of the Duke of Burgundy. Triple fillet on the boards stamped with the arms in their center, decorated covers, interior scroll, gilt edges. 85, [3] pp. Bound with the arms of the Duke of Burgundy. Louis-Joseph-Xavier François, duke of Burgundy (1751- 1761) was the older brother of the future Louis XVI. One can easily imagine that this volume was bound for the study of young Latinist. We know of other manuals which were intended for him, for example this Dictionnaire universel françois et latin, tiré des meilleurs auteurs. Dedicated to Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne by R.P. Le Brun, of the Society of Jesus. This moving volume was not long used by the little boy who died on Easter night 1761, from the disastrous consequences of a bad wound.
