Từ điển and more từ điển

It seems that there are always surprises hidden in the Internet Archive. Other than the previously mentioned Budge's Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, there are other dictionaries and language related material, for instance, the rare Nam-Hoa Từ điển (南華字典), published in 1940 in Hanoi, and edited by Nguyễn Trà̂n Mô. The title page of the dictionary contains the title in Chinese scripts and the Quốc Ngữ scripts, and also an incomplete hand written title in French, persumely Dictionnaire Chinois-annam(ite). The dictionary is arranged by Chinese radicals, the Sino-Vietnamese reading is given, followed by the meaning in Vietnamese.

For a more antique polyglot Vietnamese dictionary, there is Dictionnaire Etymologique Chinois-Annamite Latin-Français (增補漢字西譯), found in scribd.com. Edited by G. Pauthier and printed in Paris in 1867, and as its title implies, this dictionary gives the pronunciation of the Chinese characters in both Chinese and Vietnamese, and the meaning in Latin and French. In the introduction, Pauthier gave the readers a short history of Chinese dictionaries.

And for a modern, convenient online Vietnamese dictionary, there is always the very usable Vdict.com.