Bonhams 1793 : BARCLAY (JAMES) A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1812; and 5 others (6)

A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language... [with] a Descriptions of the Counties, Cities & Market Towns of Great Britain, engraved frontispiece and title, 26 engraved plates, 21 hand-coloured engraved maps (including twin-hemisphere world and North America, a few folding), light dampstain on title frontispiece and a few plates, early ownership inscription on several leaves (including in pencil of verso of maps), contemporary calf, rebacked, Bungay, Brightly and Child, 1812--SCOTT (WALTER) The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem, contemporary calf gilt, Longman, 1808, 4to--BROOKES (RICHARD) The General Gazetteer: or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary, second edition, 9 engraved folding maps (5 laid down), contemporary calf, rebacked, J. Newberry, 1766--WOODHOUSE (ROBERT) An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy, Cambridge, Black, Parry, 1812--BRENTON (EDWARD PELHAM) The Naval History of Great Britain, 2 vol., half-title in volume one, 23 plates (one misbound), spotting, Henry Colburn, 1837, last 3 mentioned modern half calf, 8vo (6)

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