Dictionaries

Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard 1954. (4to) 1030pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Decorated cover, decorated endpapers. Minor edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. Time Period. Text in French Language. Locale:. (Dictionary).

Printed for J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. C and J. Robinson, etc......London. 1799. TWO VOLUMES. 4to. (11.3 x 9.8 inches). Eighth edition, corrected and Revised. Portrait frontispiece in volume one engraved by Heath after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds and dated January 1st, 1799. A very good clean set. Finely bound in period style mid twentieth century full brown calf. Boards with single gilt ruled borders. Spines with double ruled gilt bands and lettering. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers with a neat previous owners bookplate mounted in each volume. All edges marbled. An attractive copy.

Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1803. Thirteenth Edition - 1803. An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking. Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. And Also to Instruct Them in the Geography, History, and Politics of the United States. To Which Are Prefixed, Rules of Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind. Being the Third Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language. To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing Several New Dialogues. Published Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1803. 12mo., 4 1/4" x 6 3/4", 238pp., quarter leather and paper coverd boards, shelfworn, rear cover worn, inner paper covered hinges split, loss at the corners of last page affecting a few lines of text, several pages have marks in the margins, name in ink on front f/l and pastedown. Binding tight, text good. Good.. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.

London: Oxford University Press 1970, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 1003pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Brown leather decoratively stamped in gilt and brown. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon page markers, indexes. A few small stains (coffee splashes?) on the fore-edge. A handsome book. . Suitable as a gift. (Reference, Quotations).

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An American Dictionary of the English language : exhibiting the origin, orthography, pronunciation, and definitions of words / by Noah Webster ; abridged from the quarto edition of the author, to which are added, a synopsis of words differently pronounced by different orthoëpists ; and Walker's Key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture proper names. (New York : S. Converse, 1829), by Noah Webster. First abridged edition. Octavo. 1,011 pages,Complete.
Produced a year after Webster's original two-volume edition, this abridgement was edited by Joseph Emerson Worcester. Worcester had been Webster's assistant on the two-volume edition and would later become a competitor, producing his own dictionary in 1830. This rivalry led to what has become known as the "dictionary wars."
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Gregg Publishing, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Previous owners inscriptions: No. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: 1971 1st Edition: No. Pages: 959. Description: Reprinted from an original in the India Office Library. Additional postage outside UK.

First edition. Interesting former owners name Leandros Viky in greek. With 8,000 keywords, 650 fig. In the text and 64 boards, including 32 in color (Mit 8000 Stichwörtern, 650 Abb. im Text und 64 Tafeln, davon 32 in Farbe).

A very good hardcover, First edition. Interesting former owners name Leandros Viky in greek. With 4,500 keywords, 600 musical examples, 1000 pictures and 32 title pages (Mit 4500 Sichwörtern, 600 Notenbeispielen, 1000 Abbildungen und 32 Tafelseiten).

London: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1811. Hardcover. Good. 124 p.; 31 cm. Contemporary brown cloth spine with plain brown paper over boards. In Good Condition: front board is detached but present; lacking most of cloth over spine; edges are rubbed; pages are clean and bright.

Two volumes. i-xij, 774 pages (1st volume) and 784 pages (2nd volume).

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. 3/4 bound morocco with raised bands and gilt ornaments. Published Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, reprinted with corrections, 1983. 8vo., xx+1260pp. Bound in 3/4 morocco with marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilting. Near fine. . Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

NY: Random House, 1993. Second Edition, thumb indexed. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1993. Thick folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/2", xxxix+2478pp., plus 32pp. of full color maps, illustrated throughout with b/w reproductions. Grey cloth with silver titles. Fine, crisp in fine dust jacket. . Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

1766 Japanese Chinese Dictionary Wakan Onshake Shogenjiko Setsuyoshu JAPAN
A rare, 18th century woodblock print dictionary bound in the "fukurotoji (variously translated as "bound-pocket," or "pouch" binding)" style (Keio). Setsuyoshu was a true Japanese language dictionary and entered vocabulary current during its prime in the muromachi period. Each entry gives the kanji (Chinese characters), Japanese pronunciation in katakana on the right, and occasionally adds etymologies and comments on the bottom.

This rare, 1766 dictionary is an early inui (乾) edition which are usually printed in movable type and have more entries and corrections and is comprised of 10 volumes!

Item number: #7229
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和漢音釋書言字考節用集 /
Wakan onshaku shogenjikō setsuyōshū.
Japan: Meiwa 3 [1766]

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 10 volumes
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References: Keio University, Japanese culture through rare books.
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Language: Japanese
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This is a First edition thus of the "Quatrième Edition, revue & considérablement augmentée", printed in 1780. New articles are starred (*) to differentiate from those which had appeared in previous editions of this momumental work. This a complete 12-volume set, with each volume between 500 and 600 pages. Later bindings are still tight and text remarkably free from foxing, fading or other blemishes, BUT it is in places rather heavily underlined in pencil and/or ballpoint. This concerns maybe 1% of the text and does not impact its readability. See photos.

By F. E. A. Gasc. 618 pp. Book: 2,8x2 cm. Box: 3,1x2,6 cm. David Bryce and Son, Glasgow, n.d. (c.1890-1900)
--- Soft leather binding, gilt lettering. Some wear at the bottom of the spine and a mark at the cover from the magnifying glass. At the back cover, with gilt lettering, is written: Savon Pears' Soap. Original metal box, with embossed decoration, magnifying glass window and a loop at the top.