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A Dictionary of the English Language compiled from Dr Johnson With the Addition of Words since Familiarized to us. Also a Dictionary of Heathen Mythology to which is added a complete list of all the Cities, Boroughs, Towns and Remarkable Villages in England and Wales. And a Comprehensive view of English Grammar.
London: Peacocks and Bampton, 1811. An attractive pocket edition of Johnson's Dictionary. Recent leather spine with label. Original boards with gilt edging. Frontis of the statue of Dr Johnson in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Mostly unpaginated. Spine and boards are in excellent condition. Internally, the book is in very good condition, but with some foxing, particularly to the initial pages. Three contemporary signatures to the end paper, and an inked 'D' to the title page. 150 x 100 mm (6 x 4 inches).
Book ID: 2217More details Price: £150.00 -
Amadis de Gaule. Le tiers livre de Amadis de Gaule, contenant les guerres & dif.
Book ID: 3227More details Price: £2,050.00 -
Cassandra: The Fam'd Romance. The Whole Work in Five Parts Written originally in French, and Now Elegantly rendred into English by Sir Charles Cotterell, Master of Ceremonies to His Late Majesty of Blessed Memory, and to our present Soveraign Charles II....
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1958More details Price: £360.00 -
Contes et nouvelles en vers. Two Volumes
Book ID: 2736More details Price: £550.00 -
De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni Cum Supplementis Freinshemii. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Michael le Tellier e Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum Serenissimi Delphini
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1375More details Price: £220.00 -
DE VERBORUM SIGNIFICATIONE. LIB. XX. NOTIS ET EMENDATIONIBUS ILLUSTRAVIT ANDREAS DEACERIUS IN USUM SERENISSIMI DELPHINI Accedunt in hac Nova Editione Notae integrae Josephi Scaglieri, Fulvii Ursini, & Antonii Augustini, cum Fragmentis & Schedis, atque Indice novo.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1374More details Price: £150.00 -
Dombey and Son. Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.
Book ID: 2070More details Price: £225.00 -
Galerie des Personnages de Shakspeare reproduits dans les Principales scenes de ses pieces
Book ID: 3837More details Price: £100.00 -
Gallery to Shakspeare's Dramatic Works in outlines. Complete in One Volume. Erlaeuterungen der umrisse von Moritz Retzsch von C.A. Boettiger & Carl Borromaeus von Miltitz.
Book ID: 3483More details Price: £250.00 -
Graecum lexicon manuale. Primum A Benjamine Hederico Institutum Mos Assiduo Labore Sam. Patricii Auctum Myriade Amplius Verborum Postremo Innumeris Vitiis Repurgatum Plurimisque Novis Significatibus Verborum Locupletatum Cura Io. Augusti Ernesti...
London: C. & J. Rivington et al, 1825. Editio Nova in original nineteenth century brown calf binding. The spine with six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title to russet label in second compartment, reads: Hederici Lexicon Graecum. Gilt tooled decoration to edges of boards. Text in Greek and Latin presented in three columns. Boards are a little rubbed. Front board very slightly bowed. Spine delicate at tail. Front and back free endpapers have a light water marks, rest of book clean and unmarked. 270 x 215 mm (10¾ x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3393More details Price: £50.00 -
Index verborum ac phrasium Luciani sive Lexicon lucianeum ad editiones omnes maxime novissimam Westenianam concinnatum a Car. Conr. Reitzio
Book ID: 2799More details Price: £150.00 -
L'Hermite de Londres ou Observations sur les Moeurs et Usages des Anglais au Commencement du IXIe Siecle, Fasiant Suite a la Collection des Moeurs Francaises De M. De Jouy, membre de L'Acadamie Francais
Book ID: 1537More details Price: £40.00 -
Les Comedies de Shakespeare. Les comédies traduites par Suzanne Bing et Jacques Copeau, illustré de nombreux dessins dans et hors texte par Charles Berthold Mahn.
Book ID: 2955More details Price: £150.00 -
M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammatum libros XV: interpretatione et notis illustravit Vincentius Collesso J.C. jussu christianissimi regis, ad usum serenissimi Delphini
.Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1372More details Price: £220.00 -
Madame De Maintenon, Peinte Par Elle-Même.
Book ID: 2959More details Price: £60.00 -
Marion Faliero, (A Tragedy) / The Prophecy of Dante
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. Newly bound in grey boards, and light brown spine with paper label. xxi, 261 [2] pp. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches). Test body is clean. Binding is tight. Moderate foxing throughout. Edges slightly browned.
Book ID: 2062More details Price: £280.00 -
Métamorphoses d'Ovide, traduites en françois, avec des remarques et des explications historiques par M. l'abbé Banier, de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de la Vie d'Ovide.
Paris: Chez Hochereau, 1768. First edition Thus. A lovely three volume set of this work. Complete in three volumes. Gilt decoration to spines and edges of boards. Marbled end papers. Attractive title cartouche. There is a little rubbing to the edges of the boards and slight bumping but an attractive set. Internally clean and tidy throughout. (2), LXXXIV, (24), 287. (2), 422. (2), 363, (8). pp Un bel ensemble en trois volumes de cet ouvrage. Première édition donc. Complet en trois volumes. Décor doré aux dos et tranches des plats. Feuilles de garde marbrées. Cartouche de titre attrayant. Il y a un peu de frottement sur les bords des planches et de légers chocs mais un ensemble attrayant. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé. (2), LXXXIV, (24), 287. (2), 422. (2), 363, (8). pp
Book ID: 1798More details Price: £290.00 -
Select Fables; with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and others, previous to the year 1784; together with a memoir; and a descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick.
Newcastle: S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1820. First edition. A nice copy of this collection of fables with the attractive Bewick engravings. Frontis portrait of Thomas Bewick, title with engraved vignette. Half leather with marbled boards and gilt titles to spine. Slight rubbing to the edges. of the binding. Internally clean and tidy, with just a little darkening to the page edges. [4]; xl; 332 pp. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3879More details Price: £200.00 -
Tales of Mean Streets. Lizerunt, Squire Napper, Without Visible Means, Three Rounds, and Others.
London: Methuen & Co, 1895. Second edition. 301 pages followed by 32 pages of publisher's advertisements dated January 1895. From the library of the author Maarten Maartens. He has written his real name inside on the FFEP. Boards are bumped and rubbed, and there is sun fading to the spine. Page edges are spotted, but inside not so much. 190 x 135 mm (7½ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 2858More details Price: £30.00 -
The History of King Henry the Eighth [VIII]. The text of the First Folio edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjean. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Eric Gill. Together with Shakespeare. A Review and a Preview. (A Prospectus)
Book ID: 3754More details Price: £60.00