Rare and first edition dictionaries and encyclopedias in various languages such as Biblical Aramaic, Arabic, German, and English.
London: D. Brown, 1719. The second edition, with the addition of above three thousand words, not in the... Read More about Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary interpreting such hard words of whatever language,...
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London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1823. with 4 facsimile title-pages to earlier Slang dictionaries. Read More about Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Revised and Corrected with additions of...
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London: Printed for C. Chappel, Pall-Mall, 1811. First Edition thus (fourth overall). Francis Grose (1731-1791) was the lexicographer of the low life: his dictionary of vulgar and slang words, which appeared under several different titles, was the most complete of the eighteenth century, and appeared in numerous editions (including a...... Read More about Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence...
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London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1785. The first edition. A Wellspring of Slang and Cant. A very interesting dictionary of cant terms from this antiquary who is best remembered for his “Antiquities of England and Wales” (1783-1797) and his “Antiquities of Scotland ” and posthumously published “Antiquities of Ireland.” The..... Read More about A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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Witeberg [i.e., Wittenberg]: Ex Officina Cratoniana, 1593. Italian as a Foreign Language, Wittenburg, 1593. Rare collection of sayings, anecdotes and jokes written and compiled from Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589) by Catharinus Dulcis, for young students of Italian. Dulcis was an itinerant scholar of languages, and evidently the first professor of French..... Read More about Horae Recreationis, sive Facetiarum et Apophtegematum Centuriae II. In usum inclyta Academia...
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Halle a. S: M. Niemeyer, 1918-1922. First Edition. Read More about Historische Grammatik der hebräischen Sprache des Alten Testamentes. 1. Bd. Einleitung,...
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Tiguri [Zürich]: Typis Henrici Bodmeri, 1696. Third edition, enlarged and revised (preceded by editions of 1649 & 1659). Third edition. revised, of this polyglot thesaurus of scripture, following edtions of 1649 and 1659 . Hottinger (1620 – 1667) was a Swiss reformed theologian and philologist who taught at the Universities..... Read More about Thesaurus philologicus, seu, Clavis scripturae: qua quicquid fere orientalium Hebraeorum maxime,...
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Paris: Chez Gregoire Dupuis, 1713-14. Fourth edition. Read More about Odes de M. De La Motte…Avec un Discours sur la Poësie en général & sur l'Ode en particulier
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London: by H. Woodfall, 1741. First edition. Inscribed, Presentation Binding. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "J. Shaftesbury | Given me by James Harris 1751." James Harris (1709-1780) was the eldest son of James Harris by his second wife Lady Elizabeth Ashley Cooper, third daughter of the second Lord Shaftsbury (died 1699)..... Read More about Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar
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[Ottoman Empire: n.d., 19th century]. Handsome manscript theological and philosophical treatise in Turkish. Read More about Islamic Manuscript in Turkish
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. The original dedition was published in 1828 and revised in 1836. PRESENTATION COPY. With tipped in slip at front "From the Author/ A. B. Johnson esq./ of Utica/ N.Y."' Johnson was an Amewrican philosopher and banker. "Johnson asserted that language is “subordinate” to nature..... Read More about A Treatise on Language or the Relation which words bear to Things in four parts
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Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, 1923. First Trade edition. Read More about Doctor Johnson, A Play
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London: Rivington, 1825. Ninth edition, with corrections and additions. Read More about Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of...
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Rochester, [NY]: Marshall & Dean, 1834. 36th edition. Read More about English Grammar in familiar Lectures, accompanied by a compendium; Embracing a New Systematic...
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oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Fifth edition. Read More about The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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New York: Touchstone Book Simon & Schuster, [1971]. Third Paperback printing. Inscribed to Ashley Montagu. Inscribed to Ashley Montragu on the front pastedownOct. 1992. Read More about The Underground Dictionary
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Chicago: American Publication Society of Hebrew, 1886. First edition. Read More about An Arabic Manual
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Ringos, N.J: C. W. Larison, Printer, 1883. First edition. Account of tours by Larison and students of his Academy of Science and Art to Pickle's Mountain and sites in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The tour of Central New Jersey includes notable descriptions of Monmouth Battlefield, Squan Beach, Barnegat Bay, Manasquan..... Read More about The Tenting School: A Description of the Tours taken, and of the Field Work done, by the Class of...
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Madrid: Imprenta de D. Jose Redondo Calleja, 1844. First edition of this "Diccionario de la lengua Castellana" Read More about Un Trocito de Lengua Escabechada para la Academia española. Las patas de un pavus major para D....
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London: F.C. et J. Rivington, 1810. “Editio nova”. John Amory Lowell’s Copy. A fascinating provenance. John Amory Lowell (1798–1881), of the distinguished Boston family of that name, was a businessman and philanthropist who became the sole trustee of the Lowell Institute when his cousin John Lowell, Jr., died in 1836..... Read More about Graecum Lexicon Manuale
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Philadelphia: Finley, 1817. Second American edition. Read More about A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations, Which Are in Daily Use; taken from The Latin,...
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Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. Read More about Epeögraphy; or Notations of Orthoëpy: to which is prefixed, Lektography, in Improvement in...
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1877. First edition. Includes a Hidatsa-Engish dictionary pp. 125-239. Read More about Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians [Department of the Interior, United States...
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Hollywood-Birmingham: Pangloss Publications, 1946. Pangloss Mongolian Series #1. Read More about Introduction to Mongolian Literary Grammar
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London: Hatchrard and Co. 187 Piccadilly, 1864. Third edition. Read More about The Dean's English: A Criticism of the Dean of Canterbury's Essays on the Queen's English
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Aden: Printed at the Aden Special Prison Press, 1917. Second edition, printed same year as the first edition. Grammar ‘on the fronts where Arabic is spoken’. A practical Arabic grammar and vocabulary issued during wartime. The first edition, in 68 pages, comprises only the Grammar. This second edition is the..... Read More about An Abridged Arabic Grammar. With one hundred and fifty simple conversational sentences and a...
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