Dictionary old spanish terms (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xxxviii, 110 pages. Series: Spanish series (Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies) ; no. 24. Publisher's binding sturdy and fresh, gold-stamped lettering and devices to front panel and to spine bright; contents unmarked and attractive. 400 grams.

Hardback. Zustand: Good+. clature of the Proper Terms (in all the four) belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided into Fiftie two Sections; with another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in all the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes) and the English translated into the other Three, to take off the reproch which useth to be cast upon Her, That She is but barren in this point, and those Proverbs She hath are but flat and empty. Moreover, there are sundry familiar Letters and Verses running all in Proverbs, with a particular Tome of the British or old Cambrian Sayd-Sawes and Adages, which the Author thought fit to annex hereunto, and make Intelligible, for their great Antiquity and Weight: Lastly, there are five Centuries of New Sayings, which, in tract of Time, may serve for Proverbs to Posterity. Half-title and title printed in red and black. Engraved frontis. Full tan calf. Orig. leather to boards, with double frame in black. Early 20th-century (?) near-matching spine, raised bands, double ruling in black, red gilt label. Hinges externally cracking, but only slightly slack. All edges red. Inscribed 'Titterhanger Library' to inside front board, with library plate of Eric Stanley. Mild browning to text, also scattered spotting. Pagination collated complete, though there may have been a blank between the engraving and the title page: (8), 4, (598), 24, 10 (really 12), (8), 28, (8), 24, (6), 32, (6), 40, (4), 10 pp. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Size: 22.5 x 34 x 7cm.…

[968]pp unpaginated double-column text. 8vo. Lacking endpapers, front inner hinge reinforced with paper strip. Contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked but firm, corners bumped, lacking label. ESTC T87493. At the end of the Introduction is the name in manuscript, N. Bailey, probably his signature to ensure copyright. On the verso of the titlepage the name of Gulielimus Embrey, with calendar dates on the inner front pastedown, pen-trials on the rear, together with Joseph Bonaparte, Jerome Bonaparte, Neopolia Bonaparte. Bailey, who died in 1742, was the most important predecessor of Samuel Johnson, with 30 editions of this dictionary up to 1802. His other major work, the expanded Dictionarium Britannicum, was published in 1730, and revised in 1736. Johnson made extensive use of this, and in return editions of Bailey published after his death borrowed from Johnson. Bailey was the first to include the Anglo-Saxon four-letter words C*** and F*** in a dictionary. Johnson has nothing on genitals, male or female, and although Ash (1775) also defined them in the 18th century, nobody else put the 'C' or 'F' words in general English dictionaries until 1965. In this copy a prudish early owner has inked out the two words. The definition of cricket is very basic, and as usual the game is the third definition of cricket after the insect and the stool. It is odd that cricket is defined as 'a sort of play with a ball' (no mention of a bat), whilst bat is defined as 'a club to strike the ball with, at the play called cricket'. Bailey is the only dictionary compiler to have Trull as 'to trundle'. Every other dictionary appears to have 'trull' as a whore or strumpet. Editions from 1755, after Bailey's death, remove the connection with trundle.…

pp. Unpaginated in double column. Contemporary panelled calf, the spine ends worn, the boards holding by the cords, ms. inscription by Edward Lea, 1739, Price 6:0 shillings, text clean with last leaf adhering along the inner edge to the rear free end-paper not affecting text, overall a nice, unsophisticated copy. *The Dedication, by Bailey, is in Latin, his lengthy Introduction in English - 'The Faculty of Speech, which makes so considerable a Difference between a Man and a Brute, is of excellent Use, as it renders Mankind conversible one with another.'. The purchase price of 6 shillings, in 1739, would today be equivalent to : Real price of that commodity is £51.09 - labour value of that commodity is £644.90 - income value of that commodity is £871.80 - economic share of that commodity is £8,058.00. …