Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
June 1884
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/36
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    20424 Atrrep the Great’s (King) Description of Hurope, sine THICK PAPER tissue of the preceding, red line borders, facsimiles and map (pub. £2. 2s), green cloth, 15s 1855 20425 Ancient History, English and French, exemplified in a regular dissection of the Saxon Chronicle, 12mo. cloth, 3s 6d 1839 20426 Ancrenr Laws and Institutes of Hngland, comprising Laws enacted under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, from Aithelbirht to Cuut, Anglo- Saxon and English ; the Laws called Edward the Confessor’ s, the Laws of William the Conqueror, and those ascribed to Henry the First, Latin; also Monumenta Hccle- siastica Anglicana, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Hnglish; and the ancient Latin version of the Anglo-Saxon Laws, with Glossary, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. (sells 30s), bds. 24s 1840 20427 ARCHAIONOMIA sive de priscis anglorum legibus libri, Anglo-Saxon. et Lat. interprete G. Lambardo, sm. 4to. with map of the Saxon Heptarchy, small hole in title and first leaf of Dedication wanting, old calf, £2. 2s London, John Day, 1568 In the same volume: Caii (J.) Historie Cantebrigiensis Academie ab urbe condita lib. 1—Assertatio Antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academie, incerto authore—Caii de Antiquitate Cantebrigiensis Academie lib. 11—Caius de Pronuntiatione Greece et Latins linguz. London, John Day, 1574, Willett’s copy of the ‘‘ Archaionomia”’ fetched £2. 12s 6d. 20428 Barnes (W.) Se Gefylsta, Anglo-Saxon Delectus, 12mo. cloth, 2s 1849 20429 BENSON (Thomas) Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum Lexico G. Somneri magna parte auctius, 8vo. frontispiece, old calf, 10s Oxon. 1701 20430 — the same, 8vo. front. interleaved, calf, 21s 1701 20431 BEOWULF. Poems of Beowulf, the Traveller's Song, and the Battle of Finnes-Burh, Anglo-Saxon and English, with Glossary, historical Preface, and philological notes, by J. M. Kermsuz, 2 vols. 12mo. cloth, only 100 copies printed, £2. 16s 1835-7 20432 Browutr, Poems, the Scép or Gleeman’s Tale, and the Fight at Finnesburg, with translation, notes, glossary, etc. by B. Thorpe, 8vo. cloth, 4s 6d Oxford, 1855 “The interest of the poem of Beowulf is not confined to the “Philologist ; it also interests the antiquary and the historian in a very high degree. In it we have the most lively sketches of a state of society, which our imagination could never have pictured to us without it, and we have contemporary illustrations of manners and customs, which will solve a host of doubtful questions. We never in our life met with a poem so full of beautiful and striking passages as the Romance of Beowulf.” 20433 BOSWORTH’S (J.) Hlements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, with ae and a Praxis, Saxon-English, 8vo. plate of writing, if. al gilt, 7s 20434: Anaio-Saxon Drorionary, with a Preract on the origin and connection of the Germanic Tongues, a map of Languages, the essentials of Anglo-Saxon Grammar, and an English and Latin Index, stout roy. 8vo. pp. claxvi and 721 tr eble cols. and folding table, BEST EDITION, cloth, £2. 1838 20435 -—— the same, with Preracs, stout roy. 8vo. Af. calf neat, £2. 58 1838
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