Jenkins's vest-pocket lexicon. An English dictionary of all except familiar words; including the principal scientific and technical terms, and foreign moneys, weights, and measures. Omitting what everybody knows, and containing what everybody wants to know, and cannot easily find
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1863. Electrotyped edition of a pocket dictionary measuring 3.2 x 2.25 inches, pp. 563, [1] (ad); publisher's full black blind-tooled morocco lettered in gilt on spine, a.e.g.; two contemporary gift inscriptions on front free endpaper; near fine. First published in 1861; there were at least seven editions up to 1890. This edition not in Kennedy or Vancil (but see Kennedy 6496). Item #44373
Price: $350.00
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