Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum … Accedunt D. Edvardi Luidii

BAXTER, WILLIAM

Verlag: W. Bowyer, Londini, 1719

Beschreibung

First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], xiv, [4], 277, [27]; engraved frontis portrait, typographical embellishments throughout, profusion of fonts, including black letter, Greek, Hebrew, Saxon and Roman; Lhwyd's appendix on the signification of British place names; and an 8-p. list of subscribers, including Sir Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, John Evelyn, William Wootton and Sir Hans Sloane; full contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; joints starting, extremities rubbed, old pencil annotations in Welsh on flyleaf; good and sound, unrestored. "In 1719 [Baxter] published his dictionary of British antiquities … an erudite work [to which is] prefixed a fine portrait of the author by Virtue after Highmore" (DNB). Kennedy 1547, noting also edition of 1731 and 1733. Scarce. Lowndes notes that only 350 copies were printed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30822

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Titel: Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive ...

Verlag: W. Bowyer, Londini

Erscheinungsdatum: 1719

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