Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1993]. Thumb index edition, 2 volumes, large, thick 4to, pp. xxvi, 1875; viii, [1877]-3801; a fine set in original blue cloth and in fine blue printed dust jackets, all edges speckled. More
[Baltimore]: Published by the author, Reese Press, 1956. Revised edition, 8vo, pp. 882; original blue cloth gilt; upper cover fore-edge damp-stained, spine lightly browned, else a good, sound copy. OCLC locates 4 copies of this edition in the United States. More
London: Simpkin & Marshall [et al]: Edinburgh: A Rutherglen; and Manchester, 1845. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. 154; thumbnail-size piece missing from the top margin of the title page (no loss of letterpress), otherwise very good in original green cloth with gilt decoration on the front cover of a bagpipe..... More
London: Samuel Bagster, 1901. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 506; text in triple column; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; a little spotted and cloth cracking at the top and bottom of the front joint; good and sound. More
London: printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and E. Newbery, Corner of St. Paul’s, 1797. First edition, 16mo, pp. vii, [1], [456]; lexicon in double column; text in double column; contemporary full tree calf, neatly recased and rebacked, brown morocco label on gilt-paneled spine. Quite uncommon. ESTC locates..... More
London: Wilkie and Robinson, Scatcherd and Letterman; G. Robinson ; G. Kearsley ; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, [et al.], 1810. Third edition, small 8vo, pp. xxii, [514]; recent paneled tan calf (old front endpapers preserved), red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; a fine copy. Early ownership signature of..... More
Philadelphia: published by Joseph J. Woodward, no. 35 Dock Street, 1826. 8vo, pp. 615, [1]; text in double column, composite frontispiece showing portraits of 5 theologians: Luther, Calvin, Fox, Wesley and Whitfield; general wear but still a good, sound copy in full contemporary sheep, red morocco label on spine. This..... More
New York: The Kosciuszko Fountation, 1965-73. Third and fourth printings respectively, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 1037, [1]; xii, 772; lexicon in double column; near fine and sound set in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spines. More
London: printed for Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black Swan, Pater-Noster-Row, 1698. 12mo, collating A¹²-M¹² (lacking the blank leaf M12 as usual), text in double column; endpapers renewed, title tipped to front free endpaper, the whole worn and shaken; contemporary full calf, later red morocco label; the label chipped..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Advance review copy with printed slip laid in, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 200; 8 tables and figures in the text; a near fine copy with boards very slightly bowing and faint brown spotting to top edge of textblock. Ten essays on English dictionaries, from the OED..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 200; 8 tables and figures in the text; a near fine copy in the dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Ten essays on English dictionaries, from the OED to..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1914]. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. xxii, 120; text illustrations; extremities worn, else very in original illustrated paper-covered boards. Burgess is best remembered for his The Purple Cow (San Francisco, 1895). Here he defines and amplifies 100 words of his own invention from "agowilt"..... More
Metuchen, N.J. The Scarecrow Press, 1979. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 292; illustrations; mostly fine in original red cloth, lettered in white. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. 8vo, pp. xli, [1]; light spotting to the binding else a near fine copy in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. More
[Malta]: A.C. Aquilina & Co., [1971]. 8vo, pp. 384, iv; text in double column, previous owner's bookplate, lacks flyleaf, extremities a bit worn, else very good in blue printed wrappers. More
New York: printed for John Tiebout. No. 238 Water-Street, 1811. First American edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 365, [2]; unpaginated lexicon in double column; contemporary full calf, maroon morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; extremities rubbed, upper joint starting; good and sound. Bookplate of James Mead. Also published in quarto in Philadelphia..... More
Basileæ: Ludovic König, 1621. Small, thick 8vo, pp. [16], 960, [71]; full 18th-century vellum, gilt spine, black morocco spine label, manuscript imprint information added to spine foot; a number of leaves browned and/or foxed, else a very good, sound copy. Buxtorf was a leading Hebrew scholar of the late 16th..... More
Basileæ: Ludovic König, 1621. Small, thick 8vo, pp. [16], 960, [71]; contemporary full calf, joints cracked, cords holding; one-inch sliver missing from top spine panel, some worming in the margins of Q1-R2 and 2H1-2K6; a number of leaves browned and/or foxed, else a very good, sound copy. Buxtorf was a...... More
Basileæ: Ludovici König, 1631. Editio quarta & ultima, 8vo, pp. [16] 974, [78]; ):(8 A-Zz8 AA-2V8; woodcut printer's mark, initials, and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title; spine considerably darkened; slightly later (1682) ownership inscription on front free endpaper, ink notes and blots throughout, most notably to..... More
Basileæ: Francisci Plateri & Joh. Philippi Richteri, 1698. Editio decima, 8vo, pp. [16], 976, [76]; engraved frontispiece portrait by J. G. Seiller, woodcut ornaments; full contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title (faded); later (mid-19th century) ownership inscription on pastedown, occasional ink notes and underlinings in a contemporary hand; all else generally..... More
Basileæ: Ludovici König, 1640. Folio, pp. [12], 2680 columns, [63]; collating: [*1-6], *1-[*6A], A-[4Y2] in fours, 4Z-8N4, 8O1-[8O6]; signature 4Y repeated; copper-engraved portrait and title page, text in double column; full contemporary parchment (considerably soiled), blind-tooled lozenges central on both covers, spine in 9 compartments (bottom one perished), manuscript spine..... More
New York and London: The Macmillan Company and Collier-Macmillan Ltd., [1967]. First edition, 4to, pp. 160; illustrated throughout; full red cloth, dust jacket toned and edge-worn, fine/good; inscribed by Byfield on endpaper: "For John Cassteveno - Never has one man so attentively served such insatiable greed! Barbara Byfield" A fun..... More
Londini: J. Flesher, 1664. Editio novissima, 12mo, pp. [2], [16] table, 132; one folding table printed in black and red showing "De verbo paradigma explicitum conjugationum Hebraicarum;" contemporary calf with modern rebacking, title and date stamped in gilt on spine, the boards worn and stained and a few smudges to..... More
Sofia: Pecatnicata na Voenno-izdatelskija Fond, 1948. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. xvi, 1229; text in double column, toned throughout, slight abrasion on bottom edge, light wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy in original grey cloth lettered in maroon on upper cover and spine. Zaunmuller 35. More
Bassani: ex typographia Jo. Antonius Remondanus, 1718. 8vo, pp. [8], 464, 111; title page printed in red and black, woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut initials, lexicon in triple column; contemporary quarter unadorned parchment over pastepaper boards; a good, sound copy. Several editions (Labarre notes 20) of the Calepinus Parvus..... More
