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  • The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].
  • 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 / by Samuel Johnson.
  • The gardener's dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet. With the addition of a great number of plants / [Philip Miller].
  • 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 / by Samuel Johnson.
  • 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 / by Samuel Johnson.
  • The gardener's dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet. With the addition of a great number of plants / [Philip Miller].
  • The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].
  • The Royal dictionary, in two parts. First, French and English. Secondly, English and French. The French taken out of the dictionaries of Richelet, Furetiere, Tachart, the great dictionary of the French-Academy and the remarks of Vaugelas, Menage, and Bouhours. And the English collected chiefly out of the best dictionaries and the works of the greatest masters of the English tongue such as Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Sprat, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Mr. Dryden, Sir William Temple, &c. For the use of His Highness the Duke of Glocester / [Abel Boyer].
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • 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 / by Samuel Johnson.

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    Vaidyakaśabdasindhuḥ : āyurvvedīya-śabdauṣadha-nāma-nirṇayako br̥hatkośa-granthaḥ / Kavirāja-śrī Umeśacandra-gupta-kaviratna saṅkalitaḥ.

    Gupta, Umeśacandra. | Date: 1894
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    Mīramīrasutas Asālatiprakāśa : ein synonymisches Wörterbuch des Sanskrit aus der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts / Claus Vogel.

    Vogel, Claus. | Date: [1993], ©1993
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    Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarvm sive originvm libri XX / recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instrvxit W.M. Lindsay.

    Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636. | Date: [1985]
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    Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi / Gerardus Dorneus. Onomasticon Theophrasti Paracelsi / Adam von Bodenstein.

    Dorn, Gerhard, active 16th century. | Date: 1981
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    Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 / Neil Jeffares ; introduction Pierre Rosenberg.

    Jeffares, Neil. | Date: [2006], ©2006
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