1723, Pellas, Dictionnaire provençal et françois. Edition originale.

Condition : good, rubbed, corners slightly bumped, leather loss on spine, some scuffing, inner boards and adjacent pages slightly stained in the outer margin, partlys lightly browned, scattered slight foxing, 3 leaves with small marginal defect, about 30 pages with trace of moisture in the upper corner. Overall a good clean copy.
Binding : contemporary leather, spine ribbed.
Volume : 1 volume.
Format : In-4.
Pages : 326 pp.
Publisher : Avignon, François-Sebastien Offray.
Date : 1723.
References : Brunet IV, 472.

First edition of the oldest Provençal - French dictionary. Inserted in the text: the names of several kinds of nets (p. 21), a list of several kinds of birds (p. 27 - 33), remarks on falconry and venison (p. 68 - 86).

From the beginning of the 18th century, there was a flowering of dictionaries or glossaries of varying importance in Provence and Languedoc which had a very clear pedagogical objective, that of facilitating the learning of the French language. Sauveur-André PELLAS, a religious of the Minimes Order in Aix en Provence, is the author of the oldest known Provençal and French dictionary, published in Avignon in 1723; he was born in Aix and baptised on 1 August 1667 in the church of the Madeleine (godfather Jean Pellas, godmother Lucrèce de Bot), he died in 1727.