James Orchard Halliwell

Letters of the Kings of England

AvJames Orchard Halliwell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

447 kr

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Letters of the Kings of England

AvJames Orchard Halliwell

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

336 kr

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Dictionary Of Archaic And Provincial Words Volume A-I

AvJames Orchard Halliwell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

461 kr

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Dictionary Of Archaic And Provincial Words Volume A-I

AvJames Orchard Halliwell

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

350 kr

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John Dee's Diary, Catalogue of Manuscripts and Selected Letters

AvJohn Dee,James Orchard Halliwellm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

468 kr

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John Dee (1527-1608), popularly remembered as an alchemist and spiritualist, was an enthusiastic scholar specialising in mathematics and astronomy, and collected manuscripts, early printed books and scientific instruments. Despite meeting Elizabeth I in person, he never progressed in the Church, and died in poverty. The four selections from his writings reissued here show Dee painstakingly listing his books before a journey to Europe, and appealing to the Queen for help when, after a catastrophic burglary at his library and the destruction of his laboratory equipment, his pay also failed to arrive. J. O. Halliwell (1842) reproduces the full text of Dee's diaries with an index; James Crossley (1851) transcribes Dee's appeals to the Queen; Bailey's book (1880), of which only 20 copies were printed, contains a full commentary on the last five years of the diaries; and M. R. James (1920) researches the fate of Dee's books over the centuries.

Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words

Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the XIV Century

AvJames Orchard Halliwell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

3 698 kr

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So far I may be permitted to speak without intrenching on the limits of criticism. A work containing more than 50,000 words, many of which have never appeared even in scattered glossaries, and illustrated, with very few exceptions, by original authorities, much contain valuable material for the philogist, even if disfigured by errors. With respect to the latter contingency, I am not acquainted with any glossary, comprising merely a few hundred words which does not contain blunders, although in many instances the careful attention of the editor has been specially directed to the task. Can I then anticipate that in a field so vast that no single life would sufice for a minute examination of every object, I could have escaped proportionate liabilities? That such may be pointed out I have little doubt, notwithstanding the pains to prevent their occurrence, but it will be manifestly unfair to make them the test of merit, or thence to pronounce a judgement on the accuracy of the whole.

Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words

Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the XIV Century

AvJames Orchard Halliwell

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

634 kr

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So far I may be permitted to speak without intrenching on the limits of criticism. A work containing more than 50,000 words, many of which have never appeared even in scattered glossaries, and illustrated, with very few exceptions, by original authorities, much contain valuable material for the philogist, even if disfigured by errors. With respect to the latter contingency, I am not acquainted with any glossary, comprising merely a few hundred words which does not contain blunders, although in many instances the careful attention of the editor has been specially directed to the task. Can I then anticipate that in a field so vast that no single life would sufice for a minute examination of every object, I could have escaped proportionate liabilities? That such may be pointed out I have little doubt, notwithstanding the pains to prevent their occurrence, but it will be manifestly unfair to make them the test of merit, or thence to pronounce a judgement on the accuracy of the whole.