Category: Dictionaries

The Boudoir Portfolio. With Postal Regulations, Convenient Dictionary and Speller

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Keokuk, Iowa, J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co.

Seller ID: 006514

Binding: Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedowns on

Condition: Very Good

Scarce -- no copies located on OCLC or elsewhere. N.d., circa 1899. 4to. 25.5 by 21 cm. 16 pp., plus 8 pages of blank card in the center. With front pockets, one large, almost the size of the entire front board, and a smaller pocket above, to be used to store various slips of papers, notes, receipts, etc., as customary in a compact work-oriented organizer/portfolio. With an advertisement for Elastic Starch, the actual product being promoted by the issuance of this Portfolio, on the rear inside cover. Chromolithograhic cover and rear, the front depicting a pretty young woman dressed in ...
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Warner's Safe Dictionary Comprising over Five Thousand Words with Definitions and Pronunciations; Carefully Selected from Best Authorities and embracing All the More Difficult Words in General Use

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, H. H. Warner & Co. : 1889

Seller ID: 004651

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

4to. 29.5 by 15.5 cm. 32 pp. plus wraps. Versos are generally devoted to concise definition of words, and facing rectos are predominantly testimonials for the Warner & Co.'s various remedies. Inside cover features an illustration of a safe, as in a bank safe, which is meant as a metaphor for the company's "safe" cures. Warner had a diverse assortment of nostrums, including for kidney and liver, Bright's disease, female issues, malaria, and on and on. Elsewhere is a promotion for Warner's cookbook. A typical, if somewhat larger, pharmaceutical promotional flyer of the day, since these oft...
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Letter to a Lexicographer

By: Carpenter, Edwin H.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Printed by Saul Marks of the Plantin Press : 1960

Seller ID: 005825

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Fine

12mo. 17 by 11 cm. 9 pp. Described as "a fictitious correspondence between E. de Fumier and M. Cambronne", the text is actually a learned discussion of the word "shit". With a publisher's slip inserted and surviving.
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The Vulgar Tongue, A Glossary of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases, Used in London From 1839 to 1859; Flash Songs, Essays on Slang, and a Bibliography of Canting and Slang Literature

By: Ducange, Anglicus

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Bernard Quaritch : 1859

Seller ID: 004870

Binding: Blindstamped Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Only 250 copies printed. 12mo. 17 by 11 cm. iv, 80 pp. This edition not only combines two separate glossaries from the first edition, but adds many words and phrases. It also has an useful bibliography, four pages long. Particularly enjoyable are the "translations" from slang to standard English. The former are utterly opaque and foreign to modern readers, and probably to the educated classes of the day. Leaves are heavily age toned. Blindstamped red cloth with a stain on front, about one inch by an inch in size. Wear along the joints.
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Petersen's Fur Traders Lexicon

By: Petersen, Marcus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Petersen & Chandless : 1920

Seller ID: 005504

Binding: Cloth. Limp hardcover.

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 17.5 by 11.5. 90 pp. With many animal terms, and translations of animal names and other terminology from French, German and other languages. Thus a bit of a natural history or zoological reference, with some funky esoterica as well (esoteric for those not in the fur trade). Quite uncommon in its original form, as here. Light wear.
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Category: Dictionaries

The Boudoir Portfolio. With Postal Regulations, Convenient Dictionary and Speller

Warner's Safe Dictionary Comprising over Five Thousand Words with Definitions and Pronunciations; Carefully Selected from Best Authorities and embracing All the More Difficult Words in General Use

Letter to a Lexicographer

The Vulgar Tongue, A Glossary of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases, Used in London From 1839 to 1859; Flash Songs, Essays on Slang, and a Bibliography of Canting and Slang Literature

Petersen's Fur Traders Lexicon