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A Little Book Of Toasts And Maxims

By: A.H.D. (compiled by)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, George Harrap:

Seller ID: 63217

Binding: Publisher's Leather

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, brown leather with gilt designs, some wear to spine edges and some small marks internally.
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Dictionnaire Complet Francois et Russe : Compose sur la Derniere Edition de celui de l'Academie Francoise... In two volumes

By: Academie Francoise

Price: £450.00

Publisher: St. Petersbourg, De l'Imprimerie Imperiale 1786: 1786

Seller ID: 60882

Binding: 1/4 Calf

Condition: Good

(viii), 693; 694 pp. Contemporary quarter calf over patterned boards. Spines creased & worn with loss at spine ends. Lacking spine labels. One joint split. Boards clean. Internally clean. Bindings firm. Russian and French text.
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Image for A Gaelic Dictionary. In Two Parts: I. Gaelic and English. II. English and Gaelic; In Which the Words, in Their Different Acceptations, are Illustrated by Quotations From the Best Gaelic Writers...With a Short Historical Appendix of Ancient Names...To Which is Prefixed, a New Gaelic Grammar.

A Gaelic Dictionary. In Two Parts: I. Gaelic and English. II. English and Gaelic; In Which the Words, in Their Different Acceptations, are Illustrated by Quotations From the Best Gaelic Writers...With a Short Historical Appendix of Ancient Names...To Which is Prefixed, a New Gaelic Grammar.

By: Armstrong, R. A.

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Printed for James Duncan 1825: 1825

Seller ID: 51585

Binding: Original Boards

Condition: Good

Presentation copy from the author with ink inscription to front endpaper stating: 'as a trifling testimony of respect & gratitude, from the Author.' lxx, 1030 pp. Original dark green cloth spine over grey paper-covered boards. Original paper title label to spine. Recently sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards marked and extremities and corners worn. Binding firm. This is the first Gaelic dictionary published. Good condition.
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An Universal Etymological English Dictionary : Comprehending the Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern ...

By: Bailey, N.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Printed for T. Osborne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al. 1759: 1759

Seller ID: 62787

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Seventeenth edition. Unpaginated. Bound in recent full brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. New endpapers. Damage to title-page with loss at edges. Internally generally clean. Binding firm.
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A Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish: Containing the Signification of Words, and Their Different Uses; Together with the Terms of Arts, Sciences and Trades...Part I: Spanish and English

By: Baretti, Joseph

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, F. Wingrave, J. Johnson, et al. 1807: 1807

Seller ID: 5451

Binding: Full Tree Calf

Condition: Good

New Edition, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged. Full tree calf with leather title label to spine. Front board marked and front joint weak and splitting. Slight wear to extremities. With the bookplate on front pastedown of Frederick Paul Irby. Irby was a Rear Admiral and a member of the 'Order of the Bath.' Binding tight.
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A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare

By: Bartlett, John

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, United Kingdom, Macmillan Publishers Ltd 1979: 1979

Seller ID: 50670

ISBN: 0333042751

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1910 pp, a reprint of the 1984 classic price clipped dustwrapper, slight sunning to the spine 0333042751
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.

By: Bartlett, John

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company 1897: 1903

Seller ID: 57587

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

Ninth edition. xv, 1158 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and maroon & green leather title labels. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to boards. Early ink name to first blank. Internally clean. Binding firm.
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.

By: Bartlett, John

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co. 1902: 1902

Seller ID: 59736

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Ninth edition. xv, 1158 pp. Contemporary full morocco. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Some fading to spine. Boards clean. Internally clean. Binding firm.
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Beeton's Dictionary of Universal Information : Comprising a Complete Summary of the Moral, Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences; A Plain Description of the Arts ...

By: Beeton

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co. N.d. [c. 1880's]: 1880

Seller ID: 56942

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

1664 pp. Very thick octavo. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing to spine ends and boards. Tear to one leaf with some loss of text. Internally clean. Two plates. In-text illustrations.
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Beeton's Dictionary of Geography. A Universal Gazetteer.

By: Beeton, S. O.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Tyler:

Seller ID: 44034

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

898, 6 pp. Brown cloth. Leather title label. Cloth slightly rubbed and worn. Hinges cracked. Textblock a little loose. Numerous maps, plans and woodcuts.
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A Dictionary Tamil and English, Based on Johann Philip Fabricius's Malabar-English Dictionary

By: Beisenherz, H. and Johann Philip Fabricius

Price: £350.00

Publisher: Tranquebar, Printed by E. Maennig at the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Press 1897: 1897

Seller ID: 62813

Binding: Full Sheep

Condition: Very Good

First edition. viii, 656 pp. Contemporary dark brown full sheepskin. Gilt ruling & lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to boards & spine ends. Internally clean. Tamil to English dictionary. British colonial administrator Andrew Caldecott's copy, given to him on his arrival in Malaya in November 1908. After 25 years in the Straits he became Governor of Hong Kong & later Ceylon.
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 14 Volumes [ English Edition ]

By: BENEZIT, E. ; Various Contributors

Price: £425.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions Grund 2006: 2006

Seller ID: 48867

ISBN: 2700030702

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: As New

14 volumes. Illustrated with facsimiles of some artists signatures. The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, published since 1911, is a landmark reference work in Art History, a magnificent 14 volume biographical dictionary of painters, sculptors, draftsmen, and engravers from around the world and across history. Previously it had only been published in French, but this edition of the 'New' Benezit, is the first time this cornerstone work has appeared in English. With entries on over 175,000 artists, the Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists. Unique features i...
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Benham's Book of Quotations : Proverbs and Household Words

By: Benham, Gurney

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap and Company Ltd. 1949: 1949

Seller ID: 59022

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Near Fine

viii, 1384 pp. Publisher's half maroon leather over maroon cloth. Gilt decoration & lettering to spine and top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very clean copy. Neat ink name to first blank. Internally clean and unmarked.
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The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture

By: Chittenden, Fred J. (Ed)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press 1981: 1981

Seller ID: 62777

ISBN: 0198691068

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Second edition reprint assisted by Patrick M. Synge. Four volumes in publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering. Previous owner bookplate on first pastedown. All volumes are in very good condition. 0198691068
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A New French-English and English-French Dictionary. Composed on a New Plan. In two volumes

By: Clifton, E. and A. Grimaux and remodelled and increased by J. Mac Laughlin

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Garnier Freres 1923: 1923

Seller ID: 52639

Binding: Leather Spines

Condition: Very Good

In 2 volumes. (xiii), 1341; xxiv, 1237 pp. Original brown leather spines over blue cloth. Gilt decoration and lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. Slight wear to corners. Leaves age-darkened. Hinges somewhat weak. Bindings firm. A VG pair.
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica

By: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Oxford, Blackwell Publishers 1992: 1992

Seller ID: 47947

ISBN: 0631166157

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

xvi., 2 maps, 597 pp. The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica contains more than seven thousand concise entries and nearly half a million words on every aspect of Jewish history, civilization, and religion. It will prove invaluable not only for students and teachers, but also for anyone who is interested in the fascinating richness of the Jewish tradition. In a single volume the wealth of the Jewish heritage is uncovered in direct and simple words. 0631166157
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David According to the Use of the Episcopal Church . 1979 Edition

By: COMMON PRAYER

Price: £30.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press 1990: 1990

Seller ID: 32733

ISBN: 0195287738

Binding: Vivella Crush

Condition: Fine

1002 pp. Printed on delicate india paper, all edges gilt. Bound in a lovely blue soft deluxe imitation leather (Vivella Crush is the brand name) with a blind-stamped cross on the front cover and two satin ribbon page markers. This is a 1990 reprint of the 1979 edition. 0195287738
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

By: Cousin, John W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1910: 1910

Seller ID: 62637

Binding: Full Limp Leather

Condition: Very Good

viii, 455 pp. Publisher's maroon limp leather with gilt decoration to front board & spine. Top edge gilt. Minor wear to spine. Ink owner's name to front endpaper. Internally clean. Gilt bright.
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Fun Ancient and Modern

By: Davies, Dr Maurice

Price: £48.00

Publisher: London, Tinsley Brothers 1878: 1878

Seller ID: 47919

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

327, 308 pp, 2 volumes bouns as 1, marks to spine cloth and foxing to front and back pages, damage to top of spine, possibly a secondary binding.
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Image for Index Kewensis, an Enumeration of the Genera and Species of Flowering Plants from the Time of Linnaeus to the Year 1885 Inclusive Together with Their authors' Names, the Works in Which They Were First Published, Their Native Countries and Their Synonyms (2 volumes + 10 supplementary volumes 1886 - 1940)

Index Kewensis, an Enumeration of the Genera and Species of Flowering Plants from the Time of Linnaeus to the Year 1885 Inclusive Together with Their authors' Names, the Works in Which They Were First Published, Their Native Countries and Their Synonyms (2 volumes + 10 supplementary volumes 1886 - 1940)

By: Daydon Jackson, B & Joseph D Hooker

Price: £250.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1946: 1946

Seller ID: 35665

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

.........."compiled at the expense of the late Charles Robert Darwin under the direction of Joseph D Hooker" 1946 reprint of the 1895 work in two volumes, Vol 1 1268 pp, Vol 2 1299 pp, + 10 supplementary volumes in various paginations. Vols 1 and 2 are bound in a black half morocco with green morocco effect boards. TEG. Slight creasing to the first few pages of Vol 1, a few minor scuffs to the bindings of both volumes. The supplementary volumes which are dated between 1886 and 1940, are bound in green gilt lettered cloth, they are very good clean copies with slight shelf wear here and there, m...
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