Cazenovia: Mills, Crandall, & Mosely, 1852. Stereotype edition of a pocket dictionary ("pocket dictionary" in gilt on upper cover); measuring 3¼ x 2"; publisher's full black straight grain morocco, gilt fillets on otherwise unlettered spine; minor foxing, some rubbing and wear, front flyleaf excised, else good and sound. First published..... More
St. Petersburg: Kaiserlichen akademie der wissenschaften, zu beziehen durch Eggers & comp. 1879-89. 4to, 13 original fascicles bound in 2 vols., 4to; pp. vi, 299; 160; iv, 161-301; 120; iv, 121-265; 160; [2], iv, 161-302; 160; [2], ii, 161-264; 160; [4], 161-306; 160; [2], ii, 161-390; original pale blue printed..... More
London: Gibbings and Company, 1901. 8vo, pp. viii, 278; text printed in triple columns; original black cloth (soiling), gilt-lettered spine; extremities bumped and worn, spine toned; contemporary ownership inscription on ffep, pages uniformly toned. Anastatic reprint of this abridgement of the author's Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, originally published in..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. First English edition, 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 438; original cloth in blue dust jacket printed in red and white; fine. More
Londres: D. Midwinter [and 30 others], 1742. Nouvelle edition, revüe, corrigée, & augmentée d'environ trois mille deux cens nouveaux mots, ou nouvelles phrases; thick 4to, 2 vols. in 1, second volume with separate title page in English; engraved folding portrait frontispiece, title pages printed in red and black, text in..... More
Londres: W. Meadows [and 31 others], 1759. Revu & augmenté d'un grand Nombre de Mots & de Phrases, tant Angloises que Françoises; et d'une Dissertation sur la Prosodie, 2 volumes in one, large 4to; *A4 a-b4 A-3Y4 [*2] 4A-[5Q4] 5Q4-6D4 [*6D]2 6E-7H4; woodcut printer's device, title page printed in red..... More
Lyons: Bruyset freres, 1792. 4to, 2 vols., text in triple column, second volume with separate title in English; full contemporary speckled calf, red and black morocco labels; extremities rubbed, joints a little cracked but the binding is sound, a large portion of the half title missing but text is preserved;..... More
Amsterdam: Pierre Humbert, 1719. Nouvelle edition, revûë avec soin & considerablement augmentée, 4to, 2 volumes in one; title page printed in red and black, text in triple columns; contemporary full blind-tooled reverse calf, brown gilt-lettered morocco spine label; extremities quite scuffed and worn, hinges cracked, small losses to spine ends;..... More
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, [1971]. First edition, later printing, 8vo, pp. xii, 887; corner bumped, else fine in original cloth, very good dust-jacket with light edge wear. Descriptions of major individuals, events, facts, and movements in the history of Christianity. More
Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1986. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 335; charts and facsimiles throughout, text printed from typescript; original brown wrappers printed in black and white; near fine. Lexicographica Series Maior 15. Biographical study of the editor of the first French language dictionary, the Dictionnaire françois, Geneva, 1680. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 405, [1]; original cloth in blue dust jacket printed in white; near fine. More
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, n.d., [ca. 1870s]. 8vo, pp. [iii], viii, 979, [1]; text in double column; later half red morocco over marbled boards by Macdonald, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g.; fine, bright copy. Originally published in London in 1870, this American issue..... More
London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Co., n.d., [ca. 1900.]. Thick 8vo, pp.viii, 1061; text in double column; nice copy in later half black morocco over green pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettered direct on spine; spine slightly faded, else about fine. Brewer (1810-1897) was a man interested in lists..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. Small 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 376; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges red, peach floral endpapers; small damp stain to upper cover, spine ends quite chipped, edges and corners a bit rubbed and worn; joints cracked, small tear to bottom of gutter edge..... More
Exon [i.e. Exeter]: A. Brice and B. Thorn, 1771. Seventh edition, "wherein are now first added such marginal notes, and a vocabulary or glossary, at the end, as seems necessary for explaining uncouth expressions, and interpreting barbarous words and phrases." Slim 8vo, pp. [2], iv, 3-60; original drab paper-covered boards..... More
Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1888. First edition, 4to, pp. vii, [2], 10-236; frontispiece, index; full red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g.; previous owner's name on upper corner of half-title page, extremities a bit worn and soiled, else very good. Volume 1 in "The Pennsylvania Student's Series." More
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Washington: American Anthropological Association, January, 1888. Octavo offprint from the first volume of the American Anthropologist, pp. 77-96 (i.e. 20 pages); bound into old library boards, Ayer accession label at base of upper cover. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with their release stamp at the bottom of the first leaf; no..... More
Paris: chez Desray libraire, quai des Augustins, n°35. Avec approbation, et privilege du Roi, 1790. 3 volumes, 4to, 90 full-page copper engravings; bound with, as issued: Observations sur les nouvelles découvertes aërostatiques, et sur la probabilité de pouvoir diriger les ballons (title and 34 pages), Paris: Boucher, Lamy, 1784. Full..... More
Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by T. and J. Hodgson, for E. Charnley, 1825. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxxvi, 243, [1]; engraved dedication-p. dated Dec. 31, 1824; 19th-century marbled boards neatly rebacked in calf, preserving the original red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine. With the ownership signature of William James Barrock..... More
Newcastle upon Tyne: Emerson Charnley and Baldwin and Cradock, 1829. 8vo, pp. xii, 343, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait by Collard after Nicholson, engraved dedication page; bound in after the preliminaries is a Biographical Sketch of the late John Trotter Brockett [by John Fenwick], Newcastle: printed by T. & J. Hodgson..... More
London: Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scholartis Press, 1931. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 383; original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; 2 ink stains on fore-edge extending slightly into the margins, else very good. The first of Eric Partridge's slang dictionaries. The first through third editions of this popular volume..... More
London: Eric Partridge Ltd at the Scholartis Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 383; original red cloth; corners bumped, spine sunned with a small stain, joints starting, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on upper pastedown, very good. Inscribed by Partridge to..... More
London: printed [by C. Jephson] for J. Wilcox, at Virgil’s-Head, opposite the New Church in the Strand, 1740. First edition of the first dictionary of music in English, 8vo, pp. [2], xii, 347, [1]; 4 folding plates, printed music notation in the text; full contemporary sheep nicely rebacked to match;..... More
Llundain: William Mackenzie, [1870]. Large 4to, pp. iii, [1], 594; steel-engraved frontispiece, 21 plates of maps and illustrations, additional text illustrations throughout, lithographic decorative title page printed in yellow and blue; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over cloth, gilt spine; edges a bit rubbed, cloth unevenly faded, textblock fine. 4 copies..... More
London: Thomas Kelly, 1828. 4to, pp. [2], xi, [1], 3-4, v-vi, [3]-746; engraved title-p. (dated 1823) and frontispiece, 13 engraved plates; full contemporary diced calf by Pittman of Salisbury, with his stamp in gilt on front free endpaper, decorative gilt border enclosing an elaborate central panel decorated in blind, spine..... More
