Rare and Antiquarian Books
Dictionaries
In addition to rare novels, autobiographies, and non-fiction academic books, Biblio also features a wide variety of rare and antique dictionaries. Many of the rare dictionaries that are featured in the Biblio Rare Book Room are old foreign dictionaries, and others are multi-volume sets of original American English dictionaries and encyclopedias. Some of the rare dictionaries also include little-known grammatical details that would be sure to thrill any linguist.
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A DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES
by Silva, Penny (ed.) Nelson Mandela
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Lexicon Tetraglotton, An English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a large Nomenclature of the proper Terms (in all the four) . . . With another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in all the said Toungs. . .
by Howell, James
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The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo (Complete Text in 5 volumes)
by Thompson, G.A.; De Alcedo, Colonel Don Antonio
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1ST ABRIDGED AMERICAN DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE
by Webster, Noah
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JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, IN MINIATURE; To which are added, an Alphabetical Account of the Heathen Deities; a List of the Cities, Boroughs and Market Towns, in England and Wales; a Copious Chronology; and a concise Epitome of the Most Remarkable Events during the French Revolution
by Johnson, Dr. Samuel [Miniature: Dictionary]
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Grammatica Graeca, sive Educatio Puerilis Linguae Graecae
by Golius, Theophilus
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Encyclopædia, or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems, comprehending the history, theory, and practice of each according to the latest discoveries and improvements; and full explanations given of the various detached parts of knowledge, whether relating to natural and artificial objects, or to matters ecclesiastical, civil, military, commercial, &c.; including elucidations of the most important topic relative to religion, morals, manners, and the oeconomy of life : together with a description of all the countries, cities, principal mountains, seas, rivers, &c. throughout the world; a general history, ancient and modern, of the different empires, kingdoms, and states; and an account of the lives of the most eminent persons in every nation from the earliest ages down to the present times; compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages; the m: 18 volumes.
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An American Dictionary of the English Language
by Webster, Noah
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A Chinese-English Dictionary
by Giles, Herbert A.
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Trinity TB, Newfoundland
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Ambrosii Calepini Dictionarium, tanta tamque multa verborum, tum Latinorum, tum etiam Græcorum, quæ suis Latinis bellissimè respondent, loquendíque formularum, accessione adauctum & locupletatum, ut Thesaurus linguæ Latinæ, non injuriâ, dici possit.
by CALEPINO, Ambrogio
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations By Examples from the best Writers. To Which are Prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar. In Two Volumes. The Fourth Edition, Revised by The Author [2 volumes]
by Johnson, Samuel
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Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English-Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary
by Wm. Y. Turner
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Le grand dictionaire historique, ou, Le mélange curieuz de l'histoire sacré et profane, qui contient en abrégé les vies et les actions
by MORERI, Louis
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COLUMBIA, Missouri
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שילוש לשונות = Dictionarium trilingue, in quo scilicet Latinis vocabulis : in ordinem alphabeticum digestis respondent Graeca & Hebraica
by MUNSTER, Sebastian
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Hutton's Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary in Two Volumes.
by Charles Hutton
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire
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