Du Marsais,(C.C.). Des Tropes ou des diferens... Lot 785

Du Marsais,(C.C.). Des Tropes ou des diferens sens dans lesquels on peur prendre un meme mot dans une meme langue. 3rd ed. Paris, Prault 1776. XXII p., 1 pl., 362 p., 4 pl. hardcover with rubbed and chipped boards (rubbed and worn, chaps and joints missing). "In his work on tropes a kind of re-foundation of the classification of "word-figures with change of meaning" (or "tropes") takes place, in that the catalog is reorganized according to a structural division into metonymy and metaphor, each of these two tropes being a "mother figure", so to speak, which gives rise to a multitude of derivatives" (Dict. des philos. I, 789 f.). - Slightly browned in places, removed bookplate.