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A catalogue of the genuine library of John Watson Reed, Esq. F. S. A. Late of Ely-Place, deceased, containing, amongst other curious articles, Shakespeare's Works, first Edition-Many of Shakespeare's Plays, the Original Quarto Editions,-Domesday Book, 2 vol. - several of the English County Histories-Madox's Works,-Dufresne, Carpentier, Skinner, Spelman, Junius and Chambers's Dictionaries-Hearne, Byrne and Watts's Views-a Receipt for Boydell's Edition of Shakespeare, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction by J. Egerton, Bookseller, At the room in Scotland Yard, on Monday, March 1st, 1790, And the following Day. To be viewed on Saturday, February 27th, and to the Sale, which will begin each Day punctually at Twelve O'Clock. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. L. Davis, Holborn; Mr. Owen, Temple-Bar; Mr. Sewell, Cornhill; and of Messrs. Egerton, Whitehall.
Egerton, John, -1795.Date: 1790]- Books
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The new pocket-dictionary of the English and German languages. In two parts, I. English and German - II. German and English. Composed chiefly after the dictionaries of Adelung, Johnson, and others of the best authorities. In which the parts of speech, and the Genders of the German Nouns, are properly distinguished; each Word accented according to its just and natural Pronunciation; and the Irregularities of the English and German Verbs duly marked. With an alphabetical list of the most usual Christian and proper names, and of the most remarkable Places in the known World.
Date: 1800- Books
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The standard French and English pronouncing dictionary; in two parts. Part I. French and English. Part.II. English and French. Containing several thousand words not inserted in any folio or octavo dictionaries now extant, many of which have been introduced, and sanctioned by the Members of the Constituent and Conventional Assemblies of France; and a greater number of Synonyma, in the signification of Words, than are to be found in any Work printed in the same Size. - The French, as well as the English Words are rationally divided into Syllables, accurately accented, and the various Sounds of the Vowels and local Powers of the Consonants precisely determined by Characteristic Types,-by which, from an Explanatory Key prefixed to each Part, the true Pronunciation of both French and English, is clearly demonstrated by apposite Words, whose Vowels have similar Sounds to those in the other Language, with which they are there contrasted. By W. Perry, Author of the Royal Standard English Dictionary, a General Dictionary of the English Language, &c. &c.
Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A catalogue of the libraries of the late Nicholas Munckley, Esq; of Hampstead, and several other gentlemen: Containing upwards of twenty thousand volumes of valuable books, and in fine Condition, many of them elegantly bound in Morocco, with a large Collection of modern French Books, and a good Collection of Law. Amongst which are the following, Folio. Rapin and Tindal's Continuat. 5 vol. with all the cuts Sir James Ware's Works, 2 vol. Whitlock's Memorials, best edit. State Tryals, 6 vol. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Journals H. Commons, with Indexes, 31 vol. Clarendon's Hist. and Continuat. 4 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. l. p. - Warwickshire, 2 vol. Mortan's Northamptonshire, l. pap. Thoresby's Leeds, l. pap. - small paper, in russia leather Religious Ceremonies. 6 vol. Antient and modern Hist. 23 vol. Le Brun's Voyages, 3 vol. Wheeler and Spon's Travels, Hackluyt's Voyages, 3 vol. Voyages de Norden, 2 tom. - de Thevenot, 2 tom. Locke, 3 vol. Bacon, 3 vol. Boyle, 5 vol. Picart's Ovid, fine cuts, large and sm. pap. Dictionaries, viz. Ainsworth, 2 vol. Bayle, 5 vol. General, 10 vol. Chambers and Supplem. 4 vol. Collier, 4 vol. Miller's Postlethwayte, 2 vol. Portuguese and English Dict. Bible, l pap. by Buck and Daniel - with fine cuts, in turkey leather, printed by Watson, - - Edinb. Patrick, Lowth and Whitby, 6 vol. Bp. Stillingfleet's Works, 6 vol. Dr. Clarke's Works, 4 vol. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vol. Viner's Abridgment, 24 vol. Cases in the House of Lords, 18 vol. Coke's Institute, 2, 3, 4, last edit. Reports, by Croke, 3 vol. Raymond, 2 vol. Leonard, Bulstdoe, Shower, 2 vol. Siderfin, Hardress, Ventris, Vernon, &c. Bracton de Legibus Selden's Works, 6 vol. Le Grand Coustumier de Normandie Plinius Harduini, 3 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Diod. Siculus, 2 tom. Herodotus Wesselingius Thucidides Duckeri Strabo, 2 tom. Thuanus, 7 tom. Gale Scriptores Ang. 3 tom. Twysden, Script. Ang. Anderson Diplomat. Scotiae Kircheri Oedip-Aegypt. 4 tom. Hill's Nat. Hist. 3 vol. coloured - Fossils, l. p. coloured Hortus Elthamens, 2 tom. Gualtieri Index Testac. Hippocrates & Galeni Opera a Chartatis, 9 tom. cum fig. Wood's Palmyra and Balbec Stuart's Athens Rossi's Statues Campbell's Vitruvius Brit. 3 tom. l. pap. Vitruve, par Perrault L'ediffices de Rome, par Desgodeta With many Hundreds more equally good. Which will begin to be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on August 5th, 1765. and continue on Sale till all are sold, By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6d) Mr. Brotherton's Cornhill; at Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Owen's, Temple-Bar; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Walter, Charing-Cross; Ridley, St. James's-Street; Shropshire, New Band-Street; Mr. Merrie, at Cambridge; and at the Place of Sale.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1765]- Books
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A catalogue of a large collection of the best books, in all parts of learning, in Greek, Latin, French, Italian and English; containing Several Curious Libraries, Lately purchased. Amongst which are the following: Folio. Buck's Views of Ruins, &c. 4 v. russia leather Journals of the H. of Commons, 27 vol. Teniers Gallery Patrick and Lowth, 4 vol. Bible, with cuts, in morocco. Another, large paper, by Basket James's Medicinal Dictionary, 3 vol. Dugdale's Baronage, 2 vol. Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2 vol. Hen. Stephani Thesaur. Ling. Gr. 5 tom. ch. max. Heads of Illust. Men, l. pap. 1st impress. Rushworth's Collections, 8 vol. Dugdale's Monasticon, 3 vol. Rapin and Tindal's Continuation, 4 vol. Gibson's Cambden, 2 vol. Temple's Works, 2 vol. l. paper Platonis Opera, Gr. Lat. Serrani, 3 vol. Polybius, Casauboni Euripides. Barnesii Plutarch. Xylandri, 2 tom. Demosthenes, Wolsii Josephus, Havercampi, 2 tom. Diodorus Siculus, Wesseling, 2 tom. Dion. Cassius, Reimari, 2 tom. Aristophanes, Kusteri Athenaeus, Casauboni Pausanias, Kuhnii Boyle's Works, 5 vol. Folio. Bacon's Works, 3 vol. Harris's Voyages, by Campbell, 2 vol. Norden's Travels, 2 vol. Pocock's Travels, 2 vol. russia leather Antiquit. par Montsaucon, 15 t. gr. pap. L'art de Guerre, par Puysegur, 2 t. Par. Davila Hist. Civil di Francia, 2 tom. Dictionaries, viz. Ainsworth, 2 v. Bayle, 5 vol. Chambers and Supplem. 4 vol. Postlethwayte, 2 vol. Johnson, 2 vol. Calmet, 3 vol. Miller's - Bailey, by Scott - Somner's Saxon - Davis's Welsh Du Fresne Glossar. Lat. 6 tom. Pitischi Lex Antiq. Roman. 2 tom. Hoffmanni. Lexicon, 4 tom. Dictionaire de Bayle, 5 tom. Par. Dictionaire de Moreri, 8 tom. rel. in russ. Dictionaire de Richelet, 3 tom. Dictionaire de Menage, 2 tom. Vocab[u]lario della Crusca. 6 tom. Clarke's Works, 4 vol. Cay's Statutes at Large, 6 vol. Cay's Abridgm. Statutes, 2 vol. Mac Dowal's Institutes, 3 vol. Peere Williams, 3 vol. Caresby's Carolina, 2 vol. Hippocrates & Galen, a Charterii, cum fig. 13 tom. Which will be sold (for Ready Money only) the Prices printed in the Catalogue, on Monday, July 14, 1760, and continue on Sale till all are sold. By Thomas Payne, Bookseller, Next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, St. Martin's. Catalogues to be had (price 6 d.) at the following Booksellers, viz. Mr. Ward's, Cornhill; H. Payne, Pater-Noster Row; Lewis, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Owen, Temple-Bar; Robson (late Brindley's) New Bond-Street; Jackson, St. James's-Street; Walter, Charing-Cross; Mess. Merril and Matthews, at Cambridge; at Child's Coffee-House, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and at the Place of Sale.
Payne, Thomas, 1719-1799.Date: 1760]