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

by William Baxter

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Londini: W. Bowyer, 1719. First edition, 8vo, pp. 6 , xiv, 4 , 277, 27 ; engraved frontispiece 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

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