Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Handlung, 1784. 2 volumes. 2496 columns: 2364 columns. Quarter Parchment over marbled boards. First volume covers A and B and is printed in 1784. The second volume covers C through I and is printed in 1787. The original edition of Adelung's continuation of Joecher's critical bio-bibliographical.....
Contemporary calf with a gilt ruled spine. Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743) which was the end result of about twenty years work. This later edition was enlarged and improved by the classical scholar Thomas Morell (1703-1784) and is referred to in Dibdin 1808; II p413, as the "edit. opt of this very.....
St. Petersburg, Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1870. xvi, 436p; 511p: viii, 650p. Early 20th century blue cloth over boards with titles lettered in gold on the spines. Second edition. Much improved. Otto von Böhtlingk (1815-1904) was a Russian-German Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. Old signature of Paul E. More on the.....
Upsala: Kongl. Academiska Bokhandeln, 1801. 670p, 175p. Later brown wrapper. Untrimmed edges and almost entirely unopened. The author mentions in his preface that he used the ninth edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary for adding the most common English words as well as definition and pronunciation. Title page a little spotted.....
Upsala: Zeipel Och Palmblad, 1815. 402p, 84p, Contemporary marbelised boards with a gilt leather spine. Headband dry and with general wear along the hinges. Title page a little spotted. This is the third edition which, according to the preface is almost an exact reprint of the second. 8vo - over.....
Delmenhorst: Georg Jonzen, 1810. 2 volumes lxxxi, 368 columns: 369 - 2208 columns. Not uniform. First volume; contemporary parchment over marbled boards and end papers. Second volume; large paper copy in paper covered boards. Third volume of the original edition covering letters K-Kipping. Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund (1761-1848) was a Protestant.....
Linköping: Björckegren, 1747. [8], 874p, 172p, 636p. Contemporary calf. Gilt spine. Headband worn and boards rubbed. Lower hinge on front board cracked. A well appreciated Latin-Swedish lexicon bound together with a lexicon on mythology. Contemporary signature of a Nicolaus Nordberg dated 1790. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Regensburg: Regensburg: Verlag Von Alfred Coppenrath, 1886, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 627p, 36p. Early 20th century half leather over marbelized boards. Contains 36 blank leaves bound in the end for notes and commentaries. From the library of the Swedish collector Thore Virgin with.....