RICHELET (Pierre). Dictionnaire françois, contenant les mots et les choses, plusieurs nouvelles remarques sur la langue françoise : Ses Expressions Propres, Figurées & Burlesques, la Prononciation des Mots les plus difficiles, le Genre des Noms, le Regime des Verbes : Avec Les Termes les plus connus des Arts & des Sciences. Le tout tiré de l'usage et des bons auteurs de la langue françoise. Genève : Jean Herman Widerhold, 1680-1688 ? - 2 volumes in-4, brown granite calf, spine ribbed and decorated, speckled edges (period binding). "First edition, dedicated to Ferdinand von Fürstenberg (1626-1683), Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Munster, of the first volume of the first dictionary written entirely in French, designed by lexicographer Pierre Richelet (1626-1698). The second volume comes from a slightly later edition, published by the same publisher, bearing on the title the date M. DC. LXXXIIX (1688 ?). The work begins with remarks on each letter of the alphabet. Copy in contemporary binding. Rubbing from use, headcaps damaged, corners slightly dulled. Title-piece of first volume partly detached."