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A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage
by H W Fowler
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry W. Fowler, is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Ranging from plurals and literary technique to the distinctions among like words (homonyms, synonyms, etc. ), to foreign-term use, it became the standard for most style guides that followed — thus, the 1926 first edition remains in print despite the existence of the 1965 second edition, and the 1996 and 2004 printings of the third edition.
A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary, With Transliteration, Accentuation, and Etymological Analysis Throughout
by Arthur Anthony MacDonell
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A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage
by Fowler, H W
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry W. Fowler, is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Ranging from plurals and literary technique to the distinctions among like words (homonyms, synonyms, etc. ), to foreign-term use, it became the standard for most style guides that followed — thus, the 1926 first edition remains in print despite the existence of the 1965 second edition, and the 1996 and 2004 printings of the third edition.
A vocabulary, or collection of words and phrases which have been supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America. To which is prefixed an essay on the present state of the English Language in the United States
by Pickering, John
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1816. First complete and best edition of the first work on Americanisms, 8vo, pp. [2], [9]-206, [1]; original blue paper-covered boards, rebacked with new paper label on spine; very good copy. Pickering wrote a number of philological pieces for the periodical press, as well as an important Greek lexicon, and he was the leading authority of his time on the languages of the North American Indian. This vocabulary of the American idiom was the first of its kind, and was a...
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$862.50
The royal standard English dictionary ... to which is prefixed a comprehensive grammar of the English language ... The third Worcester edition
by Perry, William
Worcester, Mass: by Leonard Worcester, for Isaiah Thomas. Sold at his bookstore, by said Thomas, & Waldo, in Brookfield, and said Thomas, & Carlisle, in Walpole. Sold also, in Boston, by said Thomas, and Andrews, S. Hall, B. Larkin, J. White, D. West, E. Larkin, Jun., J. West, and at the Boston Bookstore, 1794. Third edition of the first dictionary published in the United States, sq. 24mo, pp. [4], 596; containing an Appendix...Containing the Proper Names of Persons and Places in the Old and New...
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$287.50
Focalóir Gaoidhilge-Sax-Bhéarla or An Irish-English Dictionary. Whereof the Irish part hath been compiled not only from various Irish vocabularies, particularly that of Mr. Edward Lluyd; but also from a great variety of the best Irish manuscripts now extant; especially those that have been composed from the ninth and tenth centuries, down to the sixteenth: besides those of the lives of St. Patrick & St Brigit, written in the sixth and seventh centuries
by O'Brien, J[ohn]
Dublin: printed for Hodges and Smith, 1832. Second edition, pp. lvi, 471, [1]; modern green cloth rebinding with gilt lettering; marbled edges; front and rear flyleaves reinforced in blank margins with archival tissue; signature on title page dated 1850, additional contemporary inscriptions on front flyleaf; pencil bibliographic notes on rear flyleaf; generally fine in a new binding. Bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. First published in Paris in 1768. John...
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$460.00
Iconographic Dictionary of the Indian Religions: Hinduism - Buddhism - Jainism
by Liebert, Gosta
Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 377 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear and smudges to covers. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition. Record # 809694
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$80.00
Beeton's dictionary of universal information
by Beeton, [Samuel Orchart]
London: S.O. Beeton, 1859. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 708; 709-1411, [1], 52; engraved folding world map frontispiece, 19 folding plates, including 13 maps and one colored chronological chart; text illustrations throughout; original three-quarter calf over marbled boards, black morocco gilt-lettered spine labels; some general scuffing, a few plate edges a bit worn, else very good and sound. Vancil, p. 23.
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$201.25
The Waverley encyclopedia. A comprehensive volume of facts about people an places ... arranged alphabetically under 16,000 headings with world atlas of 31 pages in colour..
by STOWELL, GORDON
London: Waverley Book Co., n.d., 1958. First edition, thick, large 8vo, pp. viii, 1072; color maps, plates (some in color), and illus. in the text throughout; fine copy in original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine.
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$40.25
![高阳县地名资料汇编 / Gaoyang Xian diming ziliao huibian [= Compliation of place name information for Gaoyang County]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/536/756/1590756536.0.b.jpg)
高阳县地名资料汇编 / Gaoyang Xian diming ziliao huibian [= Compliation of place name information for Gaoyang County]
by Heibei Province Gaoyang Place Names Office
[Gaoyang]: Heibei Province Gaoyang Place Names Office, 1984. 7.25 x 5 in., pp. [4], 2, 7, [5], 210; two folding maps, text illustrations; blue printed paper wrappers; staples starting to rust, text clean and sound, near fine. Place name dictionaries, also called gazetteers, were produced by local governments to normalize terms, provide etymological information, and usually included demographic and historical information as well, as this one does. Harvard only in OCLC.
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$172.50
NASIONALE WOORDEBOEK
by De VILLIERS. M & SMUTS, J & EKSTEEN, L.c
All pages yellowing equally: small yellow stain marks on back & front eps: 636pp
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$7.28
An universal etymological English dictionary ... The thirteenth edition, with considerable improvements
by Bailey, N[athan]
London: printed for R. Ware, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton [et al.], 1747. 8vo, [16], [944]; lexicon in double column, one page of publishers' ads at the back; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf; slight cracking at the ends of the upper joint, else a very good, sound copy, unrestored. Alston V, 105: No copy of a "Twelfth" edition has been discovered, and it is very probable that this edition has been misnumbered the "Thirteenth"; Kennedy 6233, calling it the "12th or 13th ed."; Vancil, p. 13.
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$345.00
The Student's Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Containing Appendices on Sanskrit Prosody and Important Literary and Geographical Names in the Ancient History of India
by Apte, Vaman Shivram
Shantilal Jain, 1970. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Reprint. The boards are rubbed, marked and edge worn, but remain square. The corners are knocked inwards, and the spine is faded to the point where the text on it is difficult to read. Internally, there is a previous owner's inscription on the front end page, but the rest of the pages within are clean, crisp and complete. The binding is strong. JV.K. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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$24.00
Novyj nemetsko-russkij slovar-spravochnik. Bolee 50 000 slov i slovosochetanij / Новый немецко-русский словарь-справочник. Более 50 000 слов и словосочетаний
by A. Gorlatov, G. Kulikov, N. Kuryanko, V. Martinevskij / А. Горлатов, Г. Куликов, Н. Курьянко, В. Мартиневский
ЧеРо, Модерн-А, Асар, 2001. Hardcover/Hardback. Good. Словарь включает более 50 тысяч наиболее употребительных слов и словосочетаний, при отборе которых авторы пользовались новейшими справочными изданиями, отражающими состояние современного немецкого языка. Словарь имеет много...
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Vertalende en Verklarende Woordeboek vir die Wolbedryf : Engels-Afrikaans - Met Verklarings in Afrikaans
by Hanekom, A. J
Suid-Afrikaanse Wolraad, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 362 pages (complete). A bi-lingual (English/ Afrikaans) dictionary for the wool industry. In general fair condition. The book has at some stage been subjected to damp condition which has stained the inside covers. The book has been recovered in thick plastic with front printing that is marked but supple and sound. The contents are clear, assured and tidy. The frontis and title pages have previous owner signatures. The pages are...
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$85.00
A treatise on language. Edited, with a critical essay on his philosophy of language, by David Rynin
by Johnson, Alexander Bryan
Berkeley & L.A.: Univ. of California Press, 1947. First edition thus (Johnson's Treatise was originally published in 1828 and revised in 1836); 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 443; frontis portrait, 2 facsimiles; separately printed corrigenda laid in; dust-jacket reinforced on verso and with piece missing at the top of the spine and pp. a bit browned, else very good. Johnson's Treatise "anticipated by 100 years the most important results of modern semantics as well as the main theses of the school of logical...
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$86.25
A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals ... abstracted from the folio edition by the author ... to which are prefixed a grammar of the English language, and the preface to the folio edition
by Johnson, Samuel
Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1813. 8vo, 2 parts in 1, as issued, pp. 40, 385, [1]; 341, [1]; text in double column; full contemporary sheep, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; text lightly toned, but generally very good and sound. With an early ownership signature on the front free endpaper of "E, Jones" who has sophisticated this copy by inking the fore-edge with place marks for each letter of the alphabet, and with his or her name "E. Jones" at the bottom. The patent for the thumb-index,...
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$517.50
Logat Ketjil Bahasa Indonesia
by Poerwadarminta, W. J. S
Djakarta, Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1954. Fifth printing; 12mo, pp. 150, [2] ads; very good and sound in original limp red cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine. Dictionary of Indonesian.
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$40.25
Ægidii Gutbirii...Lexicon syriacum, continens omnes N.T. syriaci dictiones et particulas
by Gutbier, Aegidius
Hamburgi: Typis & Sumptibus Gutbirianis, 1667. Novâ hac Editione prioribus à mendis expurgatum, nonnullis etiam accessionibus locupletatum a Johanne Michaele Gutbirio, small 8vo, pp. [8], 146, [60], lacking last leaf O8 (blank), see Zaunmüller, p. 372; bound with: Gutbier, Aegidius, Ægidii Gutbirii...Notæ Criticæ in Novum Testamentum Syriacum, Hamburgi: Typis & Sumptibus Gutbirianis, 1667, "Ex optimis quibusque exemplaribus olim collectæ, & in gratiam studiosæ Juventutis editæ," pp. [8], 55;...
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$575.00
A dictionary of British surnames
by Reaney, P[ercy] H[ide]
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958. First edition, imperial 8vo, pp. lix, [3], 366; the dictionary proper in double column; original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; but for some water staining and fading to spine and front cover, a very good copy.
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$51.75
A glossary of scientific terms for general use
by Henry, Alexander, M.D
London: Smith, Elder & o., 1861. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 202; text in double column; top of spine rubbed,else very good in original green cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Not in Vancil or Zischka.
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$97.75
The royal standard English dictionary
by Perry, William
Boston: published by Thomas & Andrews, West & Blake, Eben. Larkin, & John West & Co., Manning & Loring Printers, 1810. Sq. 24mo, pp. xii, [13]-491; contemporary full sheep, label partially chipped, the whole rubbed and worn, but sound. The work is taken from the fourth English edition (1786), and was reprinted in America as late as 1813. It was in this form that the rights to Perry's Dictionary were acquired by Charles and George Merriam, who published it as their first book in Brookfield, Massachusetts...
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A dictionary of clichés with an introductory essay
by Partridge, Eric
London: George Routledge & Sons ltd, 1947. Third edition revised, 12mo, pp. ix, [3], 260; green cloth gilt; near fine in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Partridge to Laurie Atkinson, contributor of a number of terms and phrases to his projects, and with a peppering of annotations by Partridge, noting on the list of his works which titles are out of print and which are in later editions and crossing out the price on the dust jacket.
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$115.00
The Russell English dictionary. A simplified, self-pronouncing dictionary for everyday use in school, home and office
by Mitchell, Robert C
London: Universal Text Books, Ltd., n.d. [ca, 1940. 8vo, 466pp., text in double column; previous owner's name in pencil on fore-edge, else very good in original red cloth.
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$43.70
A dictionary of the English language... With numerous corrections, and with the addition of several thousand words... By the Rev. H.J. Todd
by Johnson, Samuel
London: printed for Longman, Rees [et al.], 1818. First edition, first issue, of the first revision of Johnson's Dictionary, 5 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait of Johnson by Hollar after Reynolds, text in double column; full contemporary polished tan calf, black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; slight cracking at spine ends, some scuffing to a couple of the boards, and the joints, while without gaps, are becoming tender; a very good, attractive set, with all the half-titles present (see below)....
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$2,875.00
A grammatical dictionary of Sanskrit (Vedic), I. phonetics. With a complete index to Wackernagel's Altindische Grammatik and Macdonnell's Vedic grammar
by Sūrya Kānta Sastri
Delhi: Moolchand Khairātī Rām Trust, 1953. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 290, [2]; original printed boards; a couple of small stains on the spine, bottom of spine chipped; all else near fine throughout. Volume I is apparently all that was ever published.
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$143.75
A Complete Dictionary Of The English & German Languages For General Use
by James, William
Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1880. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards are worn and marked.A bit stained on front end page,not affecting text.Foxing.Previous ownership stamp.Well bound.Compiled with especial regard to the elucidation of modern literature,the pronunciation and accentuation after the principles of Walker & Heinsius.Twenty-eighth stereotype edition.Thoroughly revised.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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$20.00
