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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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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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Dictionnaire international français-anglais : comprenant tous les mots de la langue usuelle et de la langue littéraire ... la prononciation du français figurée pour les anglais / par H. Hamilton et E. Legros.
Legros E.Date: 1876- Books
New English - Tibetan dictionary / Norbu Chophel.
Date: 1985- Books
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The new pocket-dictionary of the French and English languages. In two parts. I. French and English. II. - English and French. Containing All the Words in General Use, And authorized by the best Writers. The several Parts of Speech-The Genders of the French Noung-The Accents of the English Words, for the Use of Foreigners-An alphabetical List of the most usual Christian and Proper Names; and of the most remarkable Places in the known World. By Thomas Nugent, LL.D.
Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
A dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language. Containing the accentuation - the grammatical inflections - the irregular words referred to their themes - the parallel terms, from the other Gothic languages - the meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English and Latin - and copious English and Latin indexes, serving as a dictionary of English and Anglo-Saxon, as well as of Latin and Anglo-Saxon / By the Rev. J. Bosworth.
Bosworth, Joseph, 1787 or 1788-1876.Date: 1808 [i.e. 1838]- Books
An etymological dictionary of the English language / by Walter W. Skeat.
Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912.Date: 1882- Books
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A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: the whole laid down in the most plain and familiar manner, and calculated for the use, not only of schools, but of private gentlemen. By D. Fenning, author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority). - The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling-Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. - The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's Complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. - And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: The Whole Laid Down In The Most Plain And Familiar Manner, And Calculated For The Use, Not Only Of Schools, But Of Private Gentlemen. By D. Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority). - The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor; or, A New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready Reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. - The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's Complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English, with propriety and correctness. The whole laid down in the most plain and familiar Manner, and calculated for the Use not only of Schools, but of private Gentlemen. By D. Fenning. Author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority.)-The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready Reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready east up-The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. - And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1800- Books
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The complete French master, for ladies and gentlemen; containing I. A new methodical French grammar. II. A well-digested and copious Vocabulary. III. Familiar Phrases and Dialogues on all Manner of Subjects. IV. The elements of French conversation, with new and easy Dialogues of the Grammar of M. Perrin. By Mr. A. Boyer, Author of the Royal Dictionary, French and English.
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: 1795- Books
A Greek-English lexicon of the Septuagint / T. Muraoka.
Muraoka, T.Date: 2009- Books
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A new grammar of the English language; or an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: The whole laid down in the most plain and familiar manner, and calculated for the use, not only of Schools, but of private Gentlemen. By D. Fenning. Author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority)-The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - --The Universal Spelling-Book. --- The New Spelling-Dictionary. - --The British Youth's Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - --The Ready Reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. And the Young Man's Book of Knowledge.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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French rudiments: consisting of a grammar of the language, every-way better than any, and more comprehensive than All; - A Vocabulary of the most usual Words; - A Sententiae of the most familiar Phrases; - A Dictionary of the most beautiful Idioms; and - A Florilege of the most celebrated Pieces, from the best Writers, both Ancient and Modern. To which are added tables of corresponding terminations, and words of similar sound; in English, French, Latin, Greek, &c. by way of Key to the Etymology. A List of Words, the same (or nearly so) in Sound; but different in Sense, and Spelling; cast into short Sentences, for the Ease of the Memory. AN Explanation of Idioms; with divers other Curious and Useful Particulars. The whole dispos'd in the most easy and instructive method; and Printed in the most Commodious Manner; as well to strike the Eye and Imagination, by a proper Distinction of Letter and Situation; as for the readier Turning to, or Learning of any Particular: And, SO, Fitted for the Use of Ladies as well as Gentlemen (whether French, or English) and even brought-down to the Capacities of little Children. By Solomon Lowe.
Lowe, Solomon, -1750.Date: [1740]- Books
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A concise spelling book, for the use of children. In three parts. I. The letters, with tables of words, from one to eight Syllables; and Four Tables of Proper Names. I. Practical Lessons, in Prose and Verse, with Tables interspersed, collected from the Lessons. - Also, A Table of Words having Silent Letters, and other difficulties in reading. II. Some Observations on the Principles of the English Language. - Words changed in Sound and Sense by e final. - A few Contractions explained. - A small Collection of Words, the same in Pronunciation, but different in Spelling and Signification. - Numbers expressed by Letters and Figures. - To which are subjoined, the Old English Characters. By James Gray, Master of the English School of Peebles.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The young man's new universal companion; or, gentleman's pocket intelligencer. Containing, I. The Principles of the English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II. Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels and Book Debts, with many other mercantile Matters, as Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports. III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure. IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps; Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards, and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods of surveying Land-Cask Gauging. Information to Custom-House, Military, and Engineer Officers. VI. Several valuable and approved Receipts in Physic and Surgery. Method of avoiding infectious Diseases; of Consumptions of the Lungs. Fly-Fishing and Angling. Directions for Swimming. Recovery of drowned Persons. On the Barometer, Thermometer, and Hygrometer; the Aurora Borealis. To estimate the Value of Life and Leasehold Estates upon two or three Lives, &c. &c. Begun by the late Mr. D. Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary, Universal Spelling Book, Ready Reckoner, Young Man's Book of Knowledge, New Grammar of the English Tongue, &c. and continued by the Rev. J. Malham. Author of the Scholar's Plain and Familiar Guide to the Knowledge of Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic, Pocket Card-Dial, &c.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1788- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: M
Date: 1820-1951Reference: MS.8878- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Lagrange-de Lazen
Date: 1800-1965Reference: MS.8890- Books
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The companion to the play-house: or, an historical account of all the dramatic writers (and their works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions, down to the present year 1764. Composed in the form of a dictionary, For the more readily turning to any particular Author, or Performance. In Two Volumes. ... Contains, A Critical and Historical Account of every Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, &c. in the English Language. The respective Merits of each Piece; and of the Actors who performed the principal Characters, are particularly examined and pointed out. ... Contains, The Lives and Productions of every Dramatic Writer for the English or Irish Theatres, including not only all those Memoirs that have been formerly writeen, but also a great Number of new Lives and curious Anecdotes never before communicated to the Public. - Also the Lives of our most celebrated Actors, who were likewise Authors of any Theatrical Composition from Shakespear and Johnson, down to the present Times.
Baker, David Erskine, 1730-1767.Date: 1764- Books
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Sael's catalogue for 1792, consisting of twenty thousand volumes; including two libraries lately purchased; and many rare and curious books, collected from various Parts of the Kingdom; with a choice Collection of the most esteemed modern Publications: The whole forming an extensive Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature; many of which are in elegant Bindings. Among others equally valuable are Speculum Ecclesiae, Liber Edwardi Confessoris, MS. Biographia Britannica, 4 vol. Blair's Chronology, best edit. Borlase's Cornwell. Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani, a Gibson, 2 tom. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vols. large paper. Camden's Britannia, by Gough, 3 vols. Nash's Worcestershire, 2 vols. Dee, Bramhall, Saunders, Agrippa, Hopkins, &c. on Witchcraft. King's Vale Royal, eleg. MS. notes. Dictionaries, by Chambers, Johnson, Ainsworth, Baretti, Motherby, Miller, &c. Leicester's Cheshire. Earl of Oxford's Col. of Voyages, 2 vols. Holy Bible, by Field, Wilson, Gill, Brown, Doway, Coll, &c. Morant's Essex, 2 vols. large paper. Peck's Stamford, large paper. Tanner's Notitia, by Nasmith. Scriptores Historiae Romanae, 3 tom. Plukenetti Opera, 4 tom. Homerus Gr. Hodierna, cum multis fig. Newton's Milton, 3 vols. eleg. Ferguson's and Gibbon's Rome, 9 vols. Pennant's Wales, London, and Scotland, 6 vols. New Test. by Tyndale, first edit. Vaughan's Antiquities. Fenn's Letters, 4 vols. Horae ad Usum Sarum, cum fig. MS. on vellum - 1498 Mountenay's Emblems, in seven languages. Gentleman's Magazine, 68 vols. Bell's Poets, 109 vols. Dodsley's Register, 31 vols. Gibbon's and Hook's Rome, 23 vols. eleg. Shakspeare, by Johnson, Stevens, Bell, Capel, and Malone, 51 vols. Ancient and Modern Universal History, 60 vols. Johnson's Poets, 75 vols. Hume's and Smollet's England, 13 vols. portraits. Voltaire's Works, 36 vols. Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian, 14 vols. British Classics, 40 vols. Which are now selling, for ready Money only, at the exceeding low Prices printed in the Catalogue. by G. Sael, Bookseller, at the English Library, Newcastle Street, Strand, London, Who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books, or Books exchanged. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; of Mr. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange; Messrs. Merrills, Cambridge; Prince and Co. Oxford; Mr. Poole, Chester; and of the principal Book sellers in every County Town in England. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who are desirous of G. Sael's future Catalogue, in either Town or Country, may depend on receiving it, by favouring him with their Address before the Publication. Country Dealers, and all Public Schools, &c. supplied with all Publications whatever, on the lowest Terms, and with the utmost Dispatch. Orders for Exportation punctually executed.
Sael, George, 1760 or 1761-1799.Date: 1792]- Books
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Bibliotheca curiosa. Or a catalogue of a select parcel of books, in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French and English, being the library of Mr. Edward Hunt, deceased. N. B. The Books are in Excellent Condition, many Curiously Bound, and all Gilt on the Back and Letter'd. Among which are the following in Folio. Bayle's Dictionary, 4 vol. compleat Large and small Paper. Pool's Annotations, 2 vol. Giannone's Hist. of Naples, 2 vol. Vertot's Knights of Malta, 71 fine Heads. Tillotson's Works, 3 vol. Burnet's Hist. of his own Time, 2 v. Machiavel's Works, best. Lives of the Painters, 120 fine Heads Sir John Norris's Maps. Prior's Poems, large Paper. Hall's Chronicle. Voyages de Thevenot, 2 vol. Etat. de la France, par Bouillainvilliers, 3 tom. Livii-Vasc. De Chales Cursus Mathemat, 4 tom. Crusius Turco-Graecia. Virgilii Opera, fine Cuts. Demosthenis, Gr. - Benenat. Dryden's Virgil, fine Cuts. Quarto. De Moivres Chances. Emblemata Mich. Majori, fig. Voyages de Labat, 2 tom. fig. Perspective des Jesuites, 3 tom. fig. De Cameron di Boccace, per Rolli. Verona illustrata, par Maffei, fig. 4 tom. Cellarii Geograph. 2 tom. - Cant. Marianae de rebus Hisp. XXX. 2 v. Callimachus - H. Steph. Octavo. Clarendon's Hist. 6 vol. Cuts. Fleetwood's Chronicon. Annals of Q. Anne, 11 vol. compl. Vida del Don Quixot, 2 tom. Greek Test. R. Steph. 1549, beautifully bound. Several good Variorums. Hearn's Camden, 3 vol. Spectators, 16 vol. Many of the rest equally good. To be sold very Cheap, on Wednesday the 27th instant, 1735, and to continue Selling Daily 'till all are Sold, by Olive Payne, Bookseller, At Horace's Head in Round-Court, in the Strand. Catalogues to be had gratis, with the Prices printed, at the Place of sale. Where may be had the full Value for any Library or Parcel of books in any Language. N. B. At the said O. Payne's continues the Sales of the Libraries of Peter Baudoin, Esq; the Rev. Mr. Brown, and J. Tyrrel, Esq; all deceased. Being Two Catalogues of upwards of Ten Thousand Volumes, with the Prices printed. Baudoin's and Brown's Catalogue being very large 1s. Tyrrel's 6d.
Payne, Olive, active 1731-1739.Date: 1735]- Archives and manuscripts
Babbage, Charles (1791-1871)
Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.Date: 25 August 1829-31 January 1896Reference: MS.8648