Dictionaries and Lexicons
a collection, including
£500
Auction: 6 October 2021 at 10:00 BST
Description
Estienne, Charles Dictionarium Historicum Geographicum Poeticum. Geneva: Jacob Crispin, 1633, 4to (in eights), title within typographic border, contemporary calf, some spotting and marginal staining, rubbed; Skinner, Stephan Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae. London, 1671, folio, later calf gilt; Sewel, Willem A Large Dictionary English and Dutch. Amsterdam: J. ter Beek, 1754. 2 volumes, 4to, frontispiece with substantial loss laid down, contemporary tree calf gilt; Morell, Thomas Robert Ainsworth’s Dictionary English and Latin, 1773. 4to, title slightly dampstained and frayed, some spotting, boards detached, contents leaf supplied in pen facsimile, Riddle, Joseph E. A Copius and Critical Latin-English Lexicon. 1849. 4to, contemporary calf gilt; Liddell, H.G. & R. Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford, 1849. 4to, contemporary calf gilt; Jamieson, John An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. Edinburgh, 1808, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half calf; Jamieson, John Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary. Edinburgh, 1825. 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary quarter calf, uncut, head of spines worn; Highland Society of Scotland Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum, a Dictionary of the Gaelic Language. Edinburgh, 1828. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half calf gilt; Bell, J., publisher Bell’s New Pantheon, or Historical Dictionary 1790, 2 volumes in one, 4to, plates, contemporary half calf; Watt, Robert Bibliotheca Britannica. Edinburgh, 1824, 4 volumes, 4to, contemporary embossed calf; and several others, sold not subject to return (quantity)