Hexaglotton geminum, docens linguas, Gallicam, Italicam, Hispanicam, Graecam, Hebraicam, Chaldaicam, Anglicam, Germanicam, Belgicam, Latinam, Lusitanicam, Syriacam
Subtitle: ut intra brevissimum tempus, ope lexici, omnia explicare discas : accessit ubique appendix de pronunciatione harum xii linguarum
By: auctore Ignatio Weitenauer, S.J. ling[uarum] Hebraicae & Graec[ae] in alma Leopoldina Oeniponti, P.P.O. [part 2: ... professore]
Contributors: Schmid, Benedict, former owner
Publisher: Sumptibus Fratrum Wagner, Bibliopol[arum]
Published: 1762
Place of publication: Augustae Vind[elicorum] & Friburg[i] Brisg[ouiae]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Publishing; Italian language; Phonetics; Dictionaries; English language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Latin language; Jesuits; German language; Dutch language; Comparative and general Grammar; Latin; Greek language; French language; Hebrew language; Polyglot; Spanish language; Early works to 1800; Portuguese language; Aramaic language; Polyglot Dictionaries; Syriac language
Other titles: Hexaglotton alterum, docens linguas, Anglicam, Germanicam, Belgicam, Latinam, Lusitanicam, et Syriacam, ut intra brevissimum tempus ope lexici libros explicare discas
Notes: In two parts.

The first part is based on the author's Modus addiscendi (Frankfurt, 1756), which he supplements in the second part of the current work with six additional languages. Notable also for its phonetic transcriptions, including an appendix on English pronunciation--Bernard Quaritch (book dealer's) description.

Each part has separate title page with etched vignette.

Signatures: pi A-Q⁴ R⁴(-R4) S². )(² A-Ee⁴ F².

Printed in Roman, italic, Greek and Hebrew characters and Fraktur. Some pages printed in columns.

Etched alphabet in German script on p. 77, 2nd part. Woodcut initials, head-pieces, tail-pieces.

Errata at end.

Alston, R.C. Engl. language II, 152

Backer-Sommervogel VIII, 1055, 25

Jantz Coll 3478 (for part 1)

LC copy in "elaborate German Jesuit binding of brown calf, entirely covered with blind-stamped ornaments [inside ruled frames] and christogram in the center of both covers"--dealer's description. Blue paste-paper endpapers; all edges gilt. Has bookplate:  [Ex libris?] B. Schmid; has inscription: Benedict Schmid, candidatus theol., 1832.