Search results for: 'the works'
-
DICTIONARIES. A Dictionary of the English Language …London : 1794-95
A most attractive trio of 18th-century desk dictionaries and geographical-historical reference works, housed together in a book-form case. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 104275
-
DOOLITTLE, Rev. Justus. Vocabulary and Hand-book of the Chinese Language.Foochow : 1872
First edition of this comprehensive English-to-Chinese vocabulary phrase book. Rev. Justus Doolittle (1824-1880) was a US missionary, Chinese scholar and numismatist who was based in Fuzhou between 1850 and 1864 and who wrote extensively on Chinese culture and religion. Between 1861 and 1864, Doolittle publishee a number of popular articles in the China... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 129232
-
JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language.London : 1765
Third edition of the most famous of all dictionaries, following the first edition of 1755, in the same imposing double-folio format as its predecessor.
The creation of the dictionary was Johnson's greatest literary labour. Helped by a succession of needy amanuenses who worked in the surprisingly spacious garret of his house in Gough Square, he... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 144646
-
BARETTI, Joseph. A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages.London : 1760
First edition of this major English-Italian dictionary, inspired both by Baretti's adulation for Samuel Johnson and by his contempt for the previous English-Italian dictionary of Ferdinando Altieri, whom Baretti castigates in his preface for his ignorance and his "love of obscene words and phrases... as well as of scurrilous sayings and senseless proverbs... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 131203
-
KHANSAHEB, Ishwarlal P. & Tribhuvan J. Sheth. Hints on the Study of Gujarati.Bhaga Talao, Surat : 1913
Fourth edition, first published 1900, still in print in a tenth edition in 1938. Fairly uncommon, WorldCat locates 19 copies worldwide, but just 4 locations in the UK, BL, SOAS, Oxford, TCD. "There is no denying the fact that many forces are at work at the present day, towards the development and cultivation of Indian vernaculars. What with our significant... Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 98303
-
JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language:London : 1755
First edition. The creation of the dictionary was Johnson's greatest literary labour. Helped by a succession of needy amanuenses who worked in the surprisingly spacious garret of his house in Gough Square, he experienced the death of his mother and underwent agonies of procrastination before finally completing the task in his 46th year. Boswell called... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 90616
-
JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language:London : 1755
First edition, in entirely unrestored contemporary condition. Finding a Johnson's Dictionary that has not even been rebacked has become something of an impossible quest in the last two decades; a superior copy, this set also has sheets 19D and 24O both in the first state, which Todd notes is highly uncommon.
The creation of the dictionary was... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 149262
-
JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language:London : 1755
First edition of this most famous of English dictionaries. This work has at various times been called "the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century" (Hitchings); "the only dictionary of the English language compiled by a writer of the first rank" (Robert Burchfield); "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 87924
-
JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language:London : 1755
First edition; an excellent association copy from the library of an admirer, John Myddelton, "the only man, who, in Wales, has talked to me of literature", whose house Johnson visited on his Welsh tour. Johnson dined with Myddelton at his home on Friday, 5 August 1774, in company with Mrs Thrale, who separately noted Johnson's delight at Myddelton's... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 149799
-
DONGJIA, Mingduo. Nikan hergen i ubailiyambuha manju gisun i buleku bithe. (A Translator's Chinese-Manchu Dictionary.)China : 1869
A very scarce and attractive edition of a Manchu-Chinese dictionary published for the use of officials and scholars in the plurilingual Qing empire. After Manchu was transformed into a language of state by the Qing invasion of China, texts such as this dictionary became vital tools for upwardly-aspirational individuals to navigate between the two very... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 149935
-
ROBERTSON, William. The First Gate, or the Outward Door to the Holy Tongue, Opened in English;London : [1654-55]
First editions of both parts of this English-Hebrew dictionary and grammar, intended to make accessible the language of the Old Testament to every Christian; the first title is the secondary issue of the 1653 A Gate or Door to the Holy Tongue with cancel title page and three additional preliminary leaves, and additionally carries the additional bifolioum... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 147423
-
BOURDÉ DE VILLEHUET, Jacques. Manuel des Marins, ou Explication des Termes de Marine.Lorient : 1773
First edition. Born in St. Malo in 1732, Bourdé spent his entire career in the employ of the Compagnie des Indes based at Lorient. His reputation was made by the publication in 1765 of Le Manoeuvrier, which he had submitted for the approbation of the Academie des Sciences. An English translation was published in 1788 and Bourdé joined Hoste and... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 42930
-
BUYS, Egbert. A New and Complete Dictionary of Terms of Art.Amsterdam : 1768-69
First edition of this scarce and rather eccentric technical dictionary with definitions in English and Dutch. A broad spectrum of subjects is covered, including architecture and applied arts, botany and mathematics, law, military and naval terms, heraldry, ancient history, alongside archaisms and obscure vocabulary drawn from Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare.... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 128721
-
PERCEVAL, Richard; & John Minsheu. A Dictionarie in Spanish and English,London : 1599
First edition thus, based on two textbooks of Spanish by Richard Perceval (or Percyvall), entitled Bibliotheca Hispanica (1591), the lexicon of which John Minsheu (1559/601627) considerably augmented. Minsheu "refers to hostility towards his work in certain quarters, but ensured the grant of a licence to print by applying successfully to the archbishop... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138829
-
MANDELA, Nelson. A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles.Oxford : 1996
First edition, number 66 of 100 copies signed on the title page by Nelson Mandela, in his capacity as Founder and Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela's Children's Fund. The book is the culmination of over three decades' work towards a thoroughly historical dictionary of South African English, published by the Oxford University Press. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 105442
-
SAVARY, Jacques. Dictionnaire universel de commerce:Paris : 1723-30
First edition, complete with the supplementary volume, of the first commercial dictionary, produced by the two sons of Jacques Savary, author of Le Parfait Négociant. Savary wrote on commercial topics with considerable authority in that he made a large fortune through commerce. He suffered both politically and financially from the disgrace of Fouquet... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 89895
-
RAY, John. A Collection of English Words not Generally used,London : 1674
First edition, "the earliest attempt to gather, interpret and discuss the remnants of older and local language as a contribution not only to the better understanding of the provincial communities, but to those antiquarian studies which were leading men to a knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic tongues" (Raven). This copy of the issue with a comma... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 90721
