A Dictionary of the English and German Languages, with a Synopsis of English Words Differently Pronounced by Different Orthoepists/ Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch mit einer Tabellarischen Ubersicht der von den Neueren Englischen Orthoepisten Verschieden Ausgesprochenen Wörter (2 vols.)
Philadelphia: John Weik, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (lxxxiii) 1155pp. & (xxiii) 1187pp. Black leather over marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering on spine with raised bands. Decorative marbled endpapers. First American stereotyped edition. Supplementary text by J.C. Oehlschläger has been included with the main text of the dictionary. One of the texts added by Oehlschläger details a history of influences on the English language from the time of the Romans to the contemporary period. First published in England, the work was considered a definitive reference text in its day. Binding with scratches, rubbing and bumping along corners, edges, hinges of spines, heads and tails of spines, front and back boards. Ex-library. Library stickers at tail of spines. Interior with ex-libris stickers to interior front covers and front endpapers. Vol. 1 with book block detaching at interior front cover. Foxing and some water stains to corners and edges of title page, and sporadically to bottom right corner of first 143 pages. Vol. 2 with some tearing to marbled endpapers along spine at interior front cover. Some smudging and water stains to free front endpapers, title page and first pages of foreword. Some sporadic minor foxing and water stains throughout. Minor age toning to pages throughout. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ condition. g- to g+. Item #40892
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