Lexicon Aethiopicum ad eminentiss. Principem S.R.E. Card. Antonium Barberinum […] Cum eiusdem linguae institutionibus grammat. & indice vocum latinarum. by WEMMERS, Jacob - 1638

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.

2 volumes bound in one, quarto, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, scuffed and worn, contemporary red morocco label lettered gilt, (6) + (186) leaves; (1) + (153) leaves, printed in double columns, ownership inscription in ink on the first title page of J.Hamilton, with the A List of Subscribers in volume I.
Provenance: John Hamilton 1739-1821 of Sundrum Castle, Ayrshire; prominent in local politics in Ayr, he had enlightenment interests typical of his age, was a friend of James Boswell who introduced him to Samuel Johnson in 1773 which is recorded in Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THE FIRST GAELIC/ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
William Shaw 1749-1831 was born at Clachaig in the Isle of Arran and was a graduate of Glasgow University. He went to London, and there met Dr. Johnson. When he told Johnson
of his great scheme for making a collection of Gaelic words, the old Doctor approved. Sir, said he, if you give the world a vocabulary of that language, while this Island stands,… Read More

London: Longman and Rees, 1800. First Miniature Edition. Tooled leather with gilding. Very Good. Cook. 12mo, tooled and gilt-stamped leather with four hubs, engraved frontispiece of Dr. Johnson by Cook, frontis. & t.p. + [iii-iv] advert. + 284 pages. Very Rare! [Edited by Rev. Joseph Hamilton.] Handy edition of the redoubtable Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary with its marvellous definitions. Published in 1800 during the raging Napoleonic wars with France (see also the somewhat later inscription to a French ship's captain below). Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), or more commonly "Dr. Johnson" or "the Great Cham," was a brilliant English writer, devout Anglican and Tory, who made his reputation as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and most lastingly as a lexicographer. His Dictionary of the English Language is noteworthy for its extent, comprehensiveness, and use of pithy definitions. James Boswell, of course, memorialized the life and… Read More

The cover of this book has much wear. A binding was added later as well as pads for the corner's of the book. the previous owners names are written on the inside of the front cover and on the top of the third blank page. The pages are yellowing and tanning. The edges of most of the pages are worn. This is a rare book and dates 147 years old.."There are three books which ought to be found in every household - the Bible, an English dictionary, and a Bible dictionary. The necessity of the first two is universally admitted; and a moment's consideration will show the almost equal importance of the third." - Preface to the edition by the publishers

Roma: Pontifcium Institutm Biblicus, 1964. Analecta Orientalia Commentationes Scientificae de Rebus Orientis Antiqui 34/39, 1955/ 1964/1967 ( 3 volumes bound as one). Bound in handsome blue buckram gilt lettering at spine, the signature of noted Egyptologist E. Cruz. Uribe front paste down. Near Fine, faint bottom corner creases near back of book, binder's instruction slip laid in from Director's Library, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. lxxxiii, 625 pp., Paradigmen 15 pp., Register der Zitate, (1967) ix, 55 pp. Text in German. Uncommon in lovely and durable binding. A heavy book, priority and international mail will require added shipping charges - please inquire before ordering. . First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine. Thick 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Company 1913. (Limp leather) Very good. 1226, [9]pp.. Limp pebble-grained burgundy leather. Top edge gilt, index. This is a tight sound copy with the only flaws being: the bottom corners are lightly bumped and the spine is lightly faded. This yearbook was published on a one time basis, and there are no preceding or subsequent editions of its kind. It is regarded as a separate product from the Britannica Book of the Year which was first published in 1938. Photo on request. A survey of the world's progress since the completion in 1910 of the encyclopaedia britannica, eleventh edition; comprising a register and review of current events and additions to knowledge in politics, economice, engineering, industry, sport, law, science, art, literature, and other forms of human activity, national and international, up to the end of 1912. (Reference).

1656 FAMOUS Calepino Dictionary 9 Language Lexicon Gallic Hebrew Greek ENGLISH +

Ambrogio Calepino was a 15th-century Italian lexicographer who is remembered only by his Latin dictionary. It was reprinted constantly throughout the 16th-century including more than a dozen issues by the famous Aldine Press alone! Following the Aldine issues, the 17th-century printings featured many other languages including Hebrew, Greek, Gallic, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, English, and Belgian dialects.
Item number: #9761
Price: $950
CALEPINO, Ambrogio
Ambrosii Calepini Dictionarium, quanta maxima fide ac diligentia accurate emendatum, & tot recèns factis accessionibus ita locupletatum, ut iam Thesaurum Linguae Latinae..., adjectae sunt Latinis dictionibus hebraeae, graecae, gallicae, italicae, germanicae, hispanicae, atque anglicae... Prater alia omnia quae in hunc jusque diem fuerunt addita, praecipué à Joanne Passeratio,... Pro operis coronide adjictam est supplementum ex Glossis Isidori adornatum a R.… Read More

1835 Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell FAMOUS English Biography 10v SET

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
― Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson was a famous English writer and scholar most known for his 'Dictionary of the English Language' as well as a collection of biographical accounts of eminent English poets. In the mid-1700s, Johnson met James Boswell, a Scottish biographer who wrote an extensive biography of Johnson, which, according to a number of experts, is the greatest biography in the English language!

In addition to the complete eight-volumes of 'Life of Samuel Johnson' this set includes both volumes of 'Johnsoniana', a work of anecdotes collected by Johnson himself. According to Pottle,
"This version contains both the original texts, augmented by the additional writings of the biographer and his subject, and the very valuable new and related material which Croker introduced."

Item number: #13734
Price: $950
BOSWELL, James
The… Read More

1578 Pagnino HEBREW Bible Lexicon Thesaurus Linguae PLANTIN Judaica Pagninus
Xantes Pagnino was a 15th-century Dominican friar known for his studies in biblical philology. While his edition of the Hebrew Bible is considered his best work, he published a biblical thesaurus which was written to aid in the reading of the Hebrew texts. This 1578 printing of Pagnino's Hebrew/Latin "Thesaurus linguæ sanctæ" was published by Christopher Plantin.
Item number: #16064
Price: $950
PAGNINO, Santes
אוצר לשון הקדש Hoc est Epitome Thesauri linguae sanctae.
Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini architypografi regij, 1578

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [16], 447, [9]
· References: USTC 452581; Adams P 43; Voet Plantin Press 1864
· Language: Hebrew / Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4.5in (17cm x 11.5cm)
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1565 FAMOUS Calepino Dictionary Lexicon Language FOLIO Woodcuts Aldus Calepinus
Ambrogio Calepino was a 15th-century Italian lexicographer who is remembered only by his Latin dictionary. This 1565 Latin edition was published by the famed Gryphius and includes thousands of entries describing roots of words and definitions.
Item number: #17990
Price: $1500
CALEPINO, Ambrogio
Ambrosii Calepini Dictionarium, tanta tamque multa verborum, tum Latinorum, tum etiam Græcorum, quæ suis Latinis bellissimè respondent, loquendíque formularum, accessione adauctum & locupletatum, ut Thesaurus linguæ Latinæ, non injuriâ, dici possit.
Lugduni, Antonium Gryphium, 1565.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
[4], 1190, [28]
· References: USTC 65772
· Language: Latin / Greek / Italian / French / Spanish
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~15in X 10.5in (38cm x 26cm)
· Very rare and desirable
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