Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1782-02-26
In the forenoon Mr. D. went to take a walk. After dinner I went to a booksellers and bought a Latin and French Dictionary.1 Cloudy weather.
110 109This is possibly Jean Boudot, Dictionarium Universale
Latino-Gallicum, Paris, 1774, or his third edition, Paris, 1775, both of which
contain JQA's earliest bookplate, but no date of purchase. During his first
month in St. Petersburg, he bought for “8 RLe Grand dictionnaire royale en trois
langues, savoir, la françoise, la latine et l'allemande, 2 vols., Augsburg, 1767
(
Catalogue of
JQA's Books
).