Catalog Record: Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East

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Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East / by Lorenzo Altisonant [pseud.] an emigrant to the West, for the benefit of the inquisitive young, by a lover of the studious.

Main Author:	Hoshour, Samuel K. 1803-1883 .
Language(s):	English
Published:	Cincinnati : Applegate and Co., 1856.
Edition:	2d ed., enl. and improved.
Subjects:	English language > Foreign words and phrases. English language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Note:	Pref. signed: S. K. Hoshour. Spine title: Altisonant letters. "Vocabulary of the unusual words contained in the Altisonant letters": p. [55]-120.
Physical Description:	120 p. ; 18 cm.
Original Format:	Book Dictionaries
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