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.

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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.

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.

Bruxelles, Belgium: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1949. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok, his signature in ink title page. A Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Sebeok was among the founders of biosemiotics and editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica, the leading periodical in the field. Very Good, also from the collection of noted anthropologist, linguist, and ethnomusicologist George Herzog, his signature in ink "Herzog" top of front cover, stamped Herzog Collection at title page, missing the rear cover. 119 pp, with 3 foldout tables of gong types at rear, the foldouts are Fine. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Uppsala, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksel Intl., 1941. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok, his signature in ink title page. A Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Sebeok was among the founders of biosemiotics and editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica, the leading periodical in the field. Very Good Plus, small stain at bottom edge, toning and faint prior owner name top edge front wrapper. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

Paris: V. Baudry's European Library , 1857. Title page states "thirty-first, edition revised, corrected and improved". ix, 428 pages. Bound in full contemporary vellum, back with red morocco label lettered in gilt on a field of repeating gilt stamped decorations, ribbon marker. Near Fine, light soiling to boards, period inscription at half-title page. A SCARCE edition, handsomely bound. . Revised Edition, Corrected and Improved . Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: William Tegg, 1860. liv, (2), 739, (1) pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Finely bound in contemporary full polished calf, the back intricately tooled in gilt with black morocco label gilt, end papers and page edges marbled, Near Fine, slight rubs to calf, shadow of engraving to title page. " With numerous additions from the copy prepared by the author for republication: to which is annexed his letter to John Dunning, esq. Rev. and cor., with additional notes, by Richard Taylor." A quite handsome copy of this rather uncommon edition of Tooke's great philological work. . Later Edition. Full Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bloomington, Indiana: The Mongolian Society, Inc. , 1978. RARE. Part One published 1978, Parts Two and Three, 1984. Fine, two words with highlights noted in Part One. Publications of the Mongolian Society. . First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Gramática de la lengua castellana. Compuesta por la Real Academia Española. Quarta edición, corregida y aumentada. Con superior permiso por la viuda de Joaquín Ibarra, impresora de la Real academia. Madrid 179612mo, 479 pp. encuadernadas en plena piel de época, tejuelo con títulos y ornamentos dorados al lomo, cantos de color rojo, guardas marmoleadas con etiqueta de la librería Dávila. Ex libris caligrafiado de Romualdo Poncelis, Palencia. Cubierta un poco rozada, interiores impecables, texto totalmente limpio. Muy bonito ejemplar.

New York: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1870. x pages, 1 leaf, 253 pages, 6 pp. adverts. RARE in the First Edition, 1869 cp, 1870 tp. In original brown cloth, gilt lettering at spine, Very Good, a few widely scattered spots of toning, pages uniformly browning at edges. From the collection of noted medieval scholar James W. Marchand, his name stamp front end page. Francis A. March was on the faculty of Lafayette College for 50 years, where he became the first individual to hold the title "Professor of English Language and Literature" anywhere in the United States or Europe. Considered March's masterpiece and a classic linguistics text. a book that was reprinted as recently as 2020. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.