BRUCE, John (Editor).

Letters and Papers of the Verney Family down to the end of the year 1639 ... [Camden Society No. LVI.]

London: printed for the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1853. 4to. xiii[v], 308pp, text pedigrees (one double-page). Original blind-stamped green cloth gilt, yellow eps, uncut. Extremes rubbed with wear to lower joint and spine tips; hinges pulling

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Book number: 38565

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LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER.

Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Second Series. Volume VIII. [Including:] I. On some of the Microscopical Objects found in the Mud of the Levant ... with remarks on the mode of formation of Calcareous and Infusorial Silicious Rocks. By W. C. Williamson. III. On the Origin of Coal [and] IV. Sketch of the Drift Deposits of Manchester and its Neighbourhood. [and] XVIII. A Glance at the Geology of Low Furness, Lancashire. By E. W. Binney. X. Notes on the employment of Electrical Currents, for ascertaining the Specific Heat of Bodies. By J. P. Joule.

London: John Weale, 1848. 8vo. ix[i], 8, 476pp, 5pp list, plates, multi-folding map, text illustrations and figures. Original mauve cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut. Extremes lightly rubbed; spine browned; scattered light stains to cloth. * Contains 3 articles on the Aurora Borealis.

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Book number: 38205

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Keywords: Learned Society Transactions Coal Mining Geology Mathematics Meteorology Science Agriculture

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER.

Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Third Series. Sixth Volume. [Including] A Descent into Elden Hole, Derbyshire. By Rooke Pennington.

London: H Bailliere, 1879. 8vo. vii[i], 278, 12pp, portrait frontis, text illustrations and tables. Original mauve cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut. Extremes lightly rubbed; spine and part of boards browned and sun-faded; label browned and chipped. * Much on Mathematics and Chemistry.

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Book number: 38207

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LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER.

Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Third Series. Eighth Volume. [Including] On the Manufacture of Salt in Cheshire. By Thomas Ward. On the Development of the Common Frog [Illustrated by 20 plates]. By Thomas Alcock.

London: Taylor and Francis, 1884. 8vo. vii[i], 229[1], 10pp, 20 pltes, text tables. Original mauve cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut. Extremes rubbed with wear; spine faded; label browned and chipped; staining to lower part of spine and associated parts of boards.

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Book number: 38209

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1854. [Including among 18 articles] A search in some European Languages after the representatives of the Greek preposition ava as prefixed to verbs; by T. Hewitt Key ... On the Semitic Languages, and their relations with the Indo-European Class; by the Rev. John Davies ...

London: published for the Society by George Bell, 1854. 8vo. iv, 7[1], 303[1]pp, folding engraved plan. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30679

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1856. [Including among 22 articles] On the Languages of Northern, Western, and Central America; by R. G. Latham ...

London: published for the Society by George Bell, 1856. 8vo. iv[ii], 362pp. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence. * Also includes 'On the Nasalization of Initial Mutes in Welsh; by Theodore Aufrecht ...'

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Book number: 30680

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1856. [Including among 12 articles] On the Connexion of the Keltic with the Teutonic Languages, and especially with the Anglo-Saxon; by the Rev. John Davies ...

London: published for the Society by George Bell, 1857. 8vo. iv, 142pp, text illustration. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30681

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1855. [Including among 17 articles] On the Races of Lancashire, as indicated by the Local Names and the Dialect of the County; by the Rev. John Davies ...

London: published for the Society by George Bell, 1855. 8vo. iv, 7[1], 316pp. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; a scattering of small white spots to front board; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30682

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1877-8-9 [Part I.] [Comprising] Sixth Annual Address of the President ... Henry Sweet. Accadian Phonology. By Professor A. H. Sayce. On "Here" and "There" in Chaucer. By R. F. Weymouth.

London: published for the Society by Trubner & Co, 1879. 8vo. iv, 142pp, 45[3]pp, text tables. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30683

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1877-8-9 [Part II.] [Including among 5 articles] The Grammar of the Dialect of West Somerset. By Frederick Thomas Elworthy. The Malgasy Language. By the Rev. W. E. Cousins. The Anglo-Cymric Score. By Alexander J. Ellis ...

[London: published for the Society by Trubner & Co, 1879.] 8vo. Pp 143-455, text tables. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30684

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1877-8-9 [Part III.] [Including] Sounds and Forms of Spoken Swedish [and] Russian Pronunciation. By Henry Sweet. Collation of the Durham Ritual, with notes, etc., by the Rev. Professor Skeat

[London: published for the Society by Trubner & Co, 1879.] 8vo. Pp 457-624, appendices, folding plate. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence. * Also includes the indenture between the Society and the Clarendon Press for a dictionary contract (with multi-folding example leaf.)

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Book number: 30685

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1880-1 [Part I.] [Including among 10 articles] Remarks on some Phonetic Laws in Persian. By Charles Rieu. Notes on the Makua Language. By Chauncy Maples. On the Distribution of English Place Names. By Walter R. Browne.

London: published for the Society by Trubner & Co, 1880. 8vo. vi[i], 8, 176pp, 89pp appendices, folding table. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear to spine head; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence. * Includes 3 appendices including 'An Early English Hymn to the Virgin (15th century) and a Welshman's phonetic copy of it soon after.' By F. J. Furnivall. Together with Notes on the Welsh Phonetic Copy by Alex. J. Ellis.

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Book number: 30687

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1880-1 [Part II.] [Including] Sound Notation. By Henry Sweet. Distribution of Place-Names in the Scottish Lowlands. By Walter R. Browne.

[London: published for the Society by Trubner & Co, 1881.] 8vo. 8[2]pp, pp177-346, [2]pp, 38pp supplement 'Partial Corrections of English Spellings', 66pp monthly abstract of proceedings, 20pp memorandum of articles of association, 2 folding tables. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear to spine head; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30688

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1888. [Including] Notes on English Etymology. [and] A Second List of English Words found in Anglo-French. By the Rev. Prof. Skeat. On the conditions of a Universal Language ... By Alexander J. Ellis

[London: published for the Society by Trubner & Co, 1890.] 8vo. viii, 135pp, xx pp Abstract of Proceedings. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear to spine head; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 30694

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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Transactions of the Philological Society 1890. [Including] The Language of Mexico; and Words of West-Indian Origin [and] Notes on English Etymology. By the Rev. Prof. Skeat. Loan Words in Latin. By E. R. Wharton.

[London: published for the Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1890.] 8vo. viii pp, pp [137]-203, cxxvi pp appendix. Contemporary green pebble-grained cloth gilt, sprinkled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with slight wear to spine head; spine browned; ex-reference library with usual evidence. * The appendix is 'Caxton's Syntax and Style (with an account of the MSS. and prints of the romance of "Blanchardyn and Eglantyne.")' by Dr. Leon Kellner.

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Book number: 30695

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