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Levins, Peter & Henry B. Wheatley. MANIPULUS VOCABULORUM A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language, 1570, with an Alphabetical Index. NY: Greenwood Press, 1969.
Medium brown cloth, black lettering. REFERENCE. This book, with its added alphabetical index by Henry B. Wheatley, was first published in 1867 for the Early English Text Society, London. "Not very long ago the reprinting of an old English Dictionary would have been considered absurb, but now the great value of these works has become more fully recognized. They are the rocks in which the old words of our language are found fossilized...A Dictionary arranged according to endings is especially likely to contain a number of words which are otherwise unregistered, for the rhyme must have naturally brought to the recollectioi n of the compiler many words of frequent use in conversation, which had not found their way into books. " The title page of the 1570 edition is included, along with Levins' Preface and Dedication. ; 8-3/4" Tall; 368 pages.

Reprint; First Printing, Hardcover, Very Good-; Very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Brown stain along the gutter of the front and back endpapers. Contents, 'tho very lightly age-yellowed, are clean and unmarked. Very slight musty smell..

[KW: Old English; Olde English; Rhyming Dictionary;,]

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Kent, James. Kent, William, Editor. Memoirs and Letters of James Kent. ISBN 1584771003. 2001

Kent, James. Memoirs and Letters of James Kent, L.L.D. Edited by William Kent. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898. x, 341 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 00-026688. ISBN 1-58477-100-3. Cloth. * Kent's great-grandson William has collected James Kent's memoirs and selected letters in one of "the chief sources of information on James Kent." Hicks, Dictionary of American Biography V:347. His own words reveal Kent as a man of wide learning and literary acumen, gathered here in his views on the Federalist cause, secession, the political situation in Europe, his love of literature, his admiration for Alexander Hamilton and Washington Irving, his career before and on the bench, his life as chancellor, and his correspondence regarding the Commentaries. "Next to my wife, my library has been the source of my greatest pleasure and devoted attachment," he wrote in 1828. (DAB V:347). Included here are notes penned in some of his volumes. Of special interest are the notes that he wrote in Wollstonecraft's Rights of Woman and Tucker's Life of Jefferson. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1103.

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Society of Gentlemen in Scotland: Encyclopaedia Britannica; or a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Compiled Upon a New Plan. In 3 Volumes. A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar
Published: 1771. Hardcover. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Very Good condition, showing little signs of wear. A Complete set of three Volumes, A-B, C-L, & M-Z. Covers are dark brown and are in very good condition. Pages has minor age spots, but are still in good condition.

Collectible/Very Good

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Jacobs, Frederic & Frederic William Doring. THE LATIN READER, PART FIRST AND PART SECOND, FROM THE SEVENTH GERMAN EDITION With Notes and Illustrations, Partly Translated from the German, and Partly Drawn from Other Sources, by John D. Ogilby.. NY: W. E. Dean,
The leather covering the back cover's joint is split the entire length of the joint but the cover is held on by the sewing. Moderate edge wear (actually, minor for its age! ) , with a small piece of leather missing from the bottom of the spine. The spine is rubbed but the gold lettering is still bright, although parts of some letters are missing; the gold bands are still bright, although parts are missing, especially the bottom band. Moderate binding soil. Endpapers are stained (probably a reaction to the glue) and foxed. Some sections of the book are moderately age-browned and heavily foxed, others much less-so, and some hardly at all with the paper in those sections remaining quite white . Condition: COLLECTIBLE. ; Full medium brown leather, bright gold lettering in maroon spine panel. FOREIGN LANGUAGE. Part First, dated 1836, has 198 pages; Part Second, dated 1835, has 126 pages. They are bound together, in one volume. Dean's Stereotype Edition. Seventh New York Edition. "This little book is intended merely to give the learner such an acquaintance with the fundamental priciples of the Latin language as will enable him to enter with advantage upon the study of the preparatory course for our College. " Some Contents: Introductory exercises; Fables from Aesop; Roman history; Notes; Dictionary; Regnum Assyriorum; Res Atheniensium; Res Siciliae; Breves e Ciceronis viat Narrationes; Narrationes quaedam varii generis; Notes. ; 7-1/2" Tall.

Hardcover, Poor.

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