44
Spelmanni Glossarium.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 79. no. 183, as above.
SPELMAN,
Sir Henry.
Glossarium Archaiologicum: continens Latino-Barbara, peregrina, obsoleta, & novatæ significationis vocabula; quæ post labefactatas
a Gothis, Vandalisq; res Europæas, in ecclesiasticis, profanisq; scriptoribus; variarum item gentium legibus antiquis municipalibus,
chartis, & formulis occurrunt. Scholiis & commentariis illustrata . . . Authore Henrico Spelmanno Equite, Anglo-Britanno . . .
Londini: apud
Aliciam Warren Anno Domini
mdclxiv
. [1664]
PA2889 .S7
Folio. 294 leaves in fours, double columns, title printed in black and red.
Lowndes V, 2474.
STC S4925.
Sir Henry Spelman, 1564?-1641, historian and antiquary. This is the
first edition of the whole book, of which the first part, to the letter L, had been published in 1626.
[1809]
J. 45
Termes de la ley.
Fr.
Eng.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 80. no. 21, as above.
RASTELL,
John.
[
Les termes de la ley; or, certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now
in use, expounded and explained. Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed
in any other impression . . .
London: Printed by
W. Rawlins,
S. Roycroft and
M. Flesher, Assigns of
Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For
G. Walbanke,
S. Heyrick,
J. Place,
J. Poole, and
R. Sare,
1685.]
Law 317
8vo. Imperfect copy lacking the title and all before B
3, sheets C, Y, Z, Aa and leaf Bb
1;
Anglo-Norman and
English text printed in parallel columns, the latter in black letter the former in roman. The address to the Reader, missing in this
copy, is signed
T. B. [i.e. Thomas Blount.]
Cowley 177.
STC R292. According to the STC, this was the 24th edition.
Rebound in calf; some leaves stained. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T; a few manuscript notes in different hands.
John Rastell, d. 1536. This was the first law-dictionary proper to be printed in England, and was originally issued with a different title,
circa 1525, and frequently reprinted. The first edition with the title
Termes de la ley appeared in 1624.
Thomas Blount, 1618-1679, English lawyer[,] brought out three editions of the
Termes de la ley, in 1667, 1671 and 1685.
[1810]
J. 46
Blount’s Law dict.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 75. no. 184, Blount’s Law Dictionary, fol.
BLOUNT,
Thomas--
NELSON, William.
A Law-Dictionary and Glossary, interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms, as are found either in our Common
or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Laws . . . By Tho. Blount, of the Inner-Temple, Esq; The
third edition. To which are added near three thousand words, collected from all the Laws, of the Saxon, Danish and Norman Kings:
and from all the ancient books of the Common
