Modern Guide to French Conversation: or the Student and Tourist's French Vade=mecum: containing a Comprehensive Vocabulary; and Phrases and Dialogues of every useful or interesting topic; together with Models of Letters, Notes, and Cards; and comparative tables of the British and French Coins, Weights, and Measures. The whole exhibiting, in a distinct manner, the true Pronunciation of the French Language
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London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1846. Second edition, 12mo, vii, [1], 220pp., contemporary ink notes on front fly-leaf and upper blank margin of title, text in English and French in parallel columns, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine gilt.
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- Modern Guide to French Conversation: or the Student and Tourist's French Vade=mecum: containing a Comprehensive Vocabulary; and Phrases and Dialogues of every useful or interesting topic; together with Models of Letters, Notes, and Cards; and comparative tables of the British and French Coins, Weights, and Measures. The whole exhibiting, in a distinct manner, the true Pronunciation of the French Language
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- FIVAS (Victor de)
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- Used
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- London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1846
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