Military Operations, of Ships and Vessels of all Descriptions. Improved from an
English work. Illustrated with Copperplates, Descriptive of all objects appertaining to Seamanship.
Washington City: Printed and Published by
William Duane, and Sold by him, at his Book-Stores, at
Washington City and
Philadelphia.
1805.
V32 .M83
First American Edition. Sm. 8vo. 132 leaves including 1 blank, 8 engraved plates.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Cushing,
Anonyms, page 83.
Sabin 50410.
Jefferson bought his copy from William Duane; it appears on his bill to Jefferson, under date December 14, 1805, price $
1.50
. The entry is marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815 and is omitted from the subsequent catalogues.
The title is entered in the list of books missing from the Library of Congress made at a later date.
J. J.
Moore, of the Royal Navy, published this work in 1801, with the title
The British Mariner’s Vocabulary. William Duane dedicated his revision of the English work to Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy of the United States.
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Etymologicon linguae
Anglicanae Skinner.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 155, Etymoligicon
[
sic
--
Ed.
] linguae Anglicanae Skinneri, fol.
SKINNER,
Stephen.
Etymologicon Linguæ
Anglicanæ, Seu Explicatio vocum
Anglicarum Etymologica ex propriis fontibus, scil. ex Linguis duodecim;
Anglo-Saxonica seu
Anglica prisca, notata AS.
Runica,
Gothica,
Cimbrica, seu
Danica antiqua,
Danica recentiori, notata
Dan. rec.
Belgica, notata
Belg.
Teutonica recentiori, notata
Teut.
Cambro-Britanica, notata
C. Br.
Franco-Gallica, notata
Fr. Italica, notata
It.
Hispanica, notata
Hisp.
Latina, notata
Lat.
Græca, notata
Gr. . . . Authore Stephano Skinner, M. D.
Londini: Typis
T. Roycroft, & prostant venales apud
H. Brome sub signo Bombarde ad occidentale Sancti Pauli latus,
R. Clavel,
B. Tooke sub signo Navis Cœmeterio Divi Pauli, &
T. Sawbridge sub signo trium Iridum in Parva Britannia.
m dc lxxi
. [1671.]
PE1580 .S6
First Edition. Folio. 400 leaves, the first blank on the recto, License to print, dated Sept. 7, 1668, on the verso, text in double
columns, leaves unnumbered.
Lowndes V, 2411.
This edition not in Hazlitt.
STC S3946a.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
21.0.
Stephen Skinner, 1623-1667, English physician and philologist, died of a malignant fever, leaving his works in manuscript.
Thomas Henshaw, 1618-1700, English barrister, published this work from Skinner’s manuscripts.
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Johnson’s
English dict.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 166, no. 125, Johnson’s English Dictionary, 2 v 4to.
JOHNSON,
Samuel.
A Dictionary of the
English Language: In which The Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples
from
