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WALKER, J[ohn]. A rhetorical grammar, or course of lessons in elocution. London. Printed for the Author, And Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinson...and T. Cadell, 1787. Second edition. 12mo. vi, [6], 348pp. Contemporary sheep, gilt. Extremities worn, joints split, surface loss to boards. Hinges exposed, recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, FFEP torn. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20322

RASK, Erasmus. A grammar of the danish language for the use of englishmen, together with extracts in prose and verse. Copenhagen. Printed by J. H. Shultz, 1830. First edition. 8vo. xii, 184pp. Uncut in original publisher's powder blue paper boards. Extremities worn, loss to spine, boards held by cords only. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, very occasional short tears to margins, foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 20304

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SISSON, J[oseph] L[awson]. The elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar: to which are added a praxis and vocabulary. Leeds. Printed by Benjamin Dewhirst, 1819. First edition. 12mo. 84pp. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece, recently rebacked to style. Boards rubbed and marked. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, very occasional light spotting. More > £ 275.00 Antiquates Ref. 20298

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[WARD, John]. De Ordine, Sive De venusta & eleganti tum vocabulorum, tum membrorum sententiæ collocatione. His quædam adjiciuntur de vitiis ordinis: Item De variis modis, quibus, pro verborum numero, ordo sententiae transponi potest. Londini [i.e. London]. Apud R. Robinson, 1712. First edition. 8vo. v, [1], 7-39pp, [1]. Disbound. Foxed, damp-staining to title page, leaves shaved at foot with occasional loss of catch-word. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 21340

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[EPIGRAMS]. The pickwick treasury of wit, joe miller's jest book: comprising rich gems of humour and the most spirited witticisms. London. Published by J. Barr & Co. [printed by J. S. Pratt], 1842. 12mo. 352pp. With a half-title and a woodcut frontispiece. Contemporary green half-morocco, marbled boards, spine richly gilt. Rubbed and toned, some surface loss to upper board. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, light offsetting to title page. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21571

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[WAGSTAFFE, William]. A comment upon the history of Tom Thumb. London. Printed for J. Morphew, 1711. First edition. 8vo. 24pp. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 21616

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LONGINUS, [Cassius] Dionysius. Dionysiou Longinou rhetoros Peri hypsous logou biblion. Dionysii Longini rhetoris præstantissimi liber De grandi loquentia sive sublimi dicendi genere Latine redditus hypo thesesi synoptikais et ad oram notationibus aliquot illustratus. Edendum curavit et notarum insuper auctarium adjunxit. G.L. Cum indice. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]. Impensis Gulielmi Webb, 1638. 8vo. [42], 176, [2], 117pp, [3]. First seven words of title and 'hypo thesesi synoptikais' transliterated from the Greek. Parallel Latin and Greek text. Without the index (gathering Z) and the folding table. First and final leaves are blank. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, later contrasting black calf lettering-pieces. Extremities discoloured, lightly rubbed, and bumped. Manuscript annotations to FFEP, occasional underlining, title page a trifle stained, else internally ... More > £ 300.00 Antiquates Ref. 19555

[ODDS AND ENDS]. Odds and ends, or, a groat's-worth of fun for a penny. Being a collection of the best Jokes, Comic Stories, Anecdotes, Bon Mots, &c. [s.i., Glasgow?]. Printed for the booksellers, [s.d., c.1830-50] 12mo. 24pp. Single uncut folded sheet. A trifle marked, dust-soiled, and creased. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 20988

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TOCQUOT, J. F.. The royal pocket dictionary, french and english, and english and french; containing the signification of words in all their different acceptations; the terms of arts, sciences, and trades. The whole extracted from the best writers french and english... London. Printed [by T. Curson] for Jos. Johnson et al., 1808. New edition. 8vo. [4], viii, [524]pp. With a French title on the verso of the initial leaf. Contemporary panelled burgundy straight-grain morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Slight shaving to lower margins of leaves K3-6 and L3-6, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 16971

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KER, John Bellenden. An essay on the archaiology of popular english phrases and nursery rhymes. Southampton. Fletcher and Son, 1834. First edition. 8vo. viii, 163pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's brown buckram boards, later naively rebacked preserving original publisher's printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, splitting to joints. Occasional light spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 17564

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[VIRGIL]. Clavis Virgiliana: or, a vocabulary Of all the words in virgil's Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid...For the Use of schools, And the Improvement of those who have made but a small Progress in the Knowledge of the Latin Tongue. London. Printed for T. Astley, 1742. First edition. 8vo. [4], 191pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep. Extremities worn, some surface loss, small holes to spine, boards a trifle bowed. Slight damp-staining to lower margins, occasional short tears/holes to gutter. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 16215

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PERRIN, Jean. Fables amusantes: avec Une Table Generale & Particuliere des mots, & de leur Signification en Anglois, Selon l'Ordre des Fables, Pour en rendre la Traduction plus facile a l'Ecolier. A Londres [i.e. London]. Chez B. Law...T. Cadell...P. Elmsly, 1781. Troisieme edition [i.e. third edition]. 12mo. xvi, 220pp, [4]. With an engraved frontispiece and two terminal publisher's advertisement leaves. Contemporary sheep. Heavily rubbed, some surface loss to boards, loss to head and foot of spine. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, several gatherings protruding slightly from text-block. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17453

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PORNY, [Marc Antoine]. Grammatical exercises, english and french...to which is added, An introduction to french poetry. Brussels. Printed by Adolphus Stapleaux, 1815. Fourth edition. 8vo. [8], xxxv, [1], 170pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Paper repair to gutter of title-page, first four leaves of text mounted on stubs, small paper repairs to lower corners of leaves M2 and N1. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 18801

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DUVERGER, William. A comparison between the idioms, genius, and phraseology, of the french and english languages; illustrated in an alphabetical series of examples... London. Printed by R. Juigne...and Darton and Harvey [s.d., c.1809] First edition. 12mo. [6], 405pp, [1]. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep.Extremities rubbed and marked. A trifle creased/spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17462

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HOOLE, Charles. Terminationes et exempla Declinationum et Conjugationum, itemque propria quae maribus, quae genus, et as in praesenti, englished and explained for the use of young grammarians. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. 12mo. 124pp. Contemporary calf. Extremities marked and worn. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to FFEP, leaves lightly toned. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 16414

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[PORQUET, Louis Philippe R. Fenwick de]. De porquet's first italian reading book: or, Raccolta di Storie e di Novelle, veramente morali. London. Published for the Author, by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1853. New edition. 8vo. xix, 189pp, [3]. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight marking to extremities. First gathering protruding from text-block, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title-page. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16413

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GILES, James. English parsing; comprising the rules of syntax, exemplified by appropriate lessons under each rule. With an index, containing all the parts of speech in the different lessons unparsed. For the use of schools, private teachers, and elder students. London. Thomas Allman and Son, 1854. New edition. 12mo. viii, [1], 10-120pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine rubbed, some discolouration. Contemporary ink inscription to head of title-page, slight tear to C8 - just clipping text, small hole to text of C10 - with slight loss of sense. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 16412

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RERESBY, Tamworth. A collection of letters, Extracted from the most Celebrated French authors. Viz. The Chevalier de Mere, Boursault, Fontenelle, Balzac, Count Buffy, Voiture, Costar, Boileau. Adorn'd with that Variety of Subjects, as will not serve only for the entertainment of those who have made some advances in the French Language, but also for their Instruction in a polite manner of writing. Made English by Tamworth Reresby, Esq. London. Printed by T. Howlatt, for J. Graves, 1715. First edition. 8vo. [16], 309pp, [10]. With five preliminary contents leaves (Aa-5) bound at end. Contemporary panelled sheep. Rubbed, with some surface loss, short split to upper joint at head of spine. Early ink inscription 'Glynn' to FEP, some browning/marginal staining to text. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 17083

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[AUCTION CATALOGUE]. A catalogue of a valuable Collection of Prints, Recently Imported from the Continent, consisting of rare british portraits, and historical subjects...which will be sold by auction, by Mr. c. dubois. [London]. [s.n.], [1823]. 12mo. 11pp, [1]. Disbound. Title-page a trifle toned, small hole to text of p.5-6 - without loss of sense, light spotting/creasing. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 13971

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[SPARVENFELD, Johan Gabriel]. Catalogus centuriae librorum rarissimorum manuscript. & partim impressorum, Arabicorum, Persicorum, Turcicorum, Graecorum, Latinorum &c. Quo anno MDCCV Bibliothecam Publicam Academiae Upsalensis auxit & exornavit. Upsaliae, [i.e. Uppsala].. Typis Joh. Henry. Werneri S:ae R:ae M:tis & Acad. Upsal. Typographi, 1706. First edition. Quarto. [6], 74pp. With text in mixed Latin and Arabic type. Uncut and largely unopened, in later paper wrappers. Ink inscription to head of upper wrapper. More > £ 350.00 Antiquates Ref. 15446