An introduction to the making of Latin : comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax : with proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in antoher : to which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome, intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue with rules for the gender of nouns
The sixteenth edition, revised and carefully corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges on London-Bridge,
Date of Publication
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description
xii, 297, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
"A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors, both literal and free, for the easy and expeditious attainment of the Latin tongue" (p. [277]-297) has special title page.
Signatures: A-N¹².
Bookseller's advertisement on last three pages.
Apparently from Jasper Yeates's personal libarary.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of John Yeates.
Apxaionomia, sive, De priscis Anglorum legibus libri : sermone Anglico, vetustate antiquissimo, aliquot ab hinc seculis conscripti, nunc demum, magno jurisperitorum, & amantium antiquitatis omnium commodo, è tenebris in lucem vocati
Gulielmo Lambardo interprete. Sexcentis in locis à libro ipsius castigata, quo pro exemplari utimur, cum multis aliis additionibus. Accessere in hac nostra ultima editione leges Henrici Primi nunc primùm editae, ex manuscripto in Fisco Regis habito, unà cum glossario earum antiquo ex manuscripto codice olim S. Augustini Doroborniensis. Regum qui has leges scripserunt nomenclationem, & quid praeterea tum primùm ab illo, & nunc denuo à nobis accesserit, subsequens monstrabit pagina.
Ex officina Rogeri Daniel ... : Prostant Londini apud Cornelium Bee, sub insignibus Regalibus, in vico vulgò vocato Little Britain,
Date of Publication
MDCXLIIII [1644]
Physical Description
[12], 152, [2], 153-158, 157-226, [10] pages, [2] leaves of plates : map ; 37 cm (fol.)
Notes
"This collection was originally made by Lawrance Nowell ..."--Clarke, Bibliotheca legum.
"Ad lectorum" signed: Abrahamus Whelocus ...
The "Leges Willielmi Conquestoris, et Henrici filli ejus" are in Law French with Latin translation in paralel columns, and have "Praefatio" signed: Roger Twysden.
First word in title transliterated from Greek.
Bookseller's statement follows date of publication on title page.
Title in red and black.
With final errata leaf.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates Signature at top of title page.
Book number 83 as assigned by Yeates.
Signature of R. Belwood struck out.
Wing (2nd ed.),
ESTC,
Contents
Leges Inae Regis -- Leges Aluredi Regis -- Foedus Aluredi & Guthruni Regum -- Leges Edouardi Regis -- Foedus Edouardi & Guthruni Regum -- Leges Aethelstani Regis -- Leges Edmundi Regis -- Leges Edgari Regis -- Canones editi sub Edgaro Rege -- Leges Ethelredi Regis -- Senatus-consultum de Monticolis Walliae -- Leges Canuti Regis -- Canones Aelfrici ad Wulfinum episcopum -- Leges Gulielmi Regis -- Leges boni Regis Edouardi, quas Gulielmus Bastardus postea confirmavit -- Leges Willielmi Conquestoris, et Henrici filli ejus -- Glossarium.
Samuel E. Dyke was a noted authority on the Pennsylvania rifle and wrote on this subject. Collection consists of articles, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and working papers on firearms. Also included is information on gunsmiths, the Rockford Foundation, the Heritage Center, cabinetmakers, grandfather clocks, and the Armstrong Cork Company. 1670-1985
This collection contains financial and legal papers of Joseph Simon, including a mortgage, his will, and a bill of exchange. There is also a 1768 letter of introduction from Thomas Barton, rector of St. James Episcopal Church to William Johnson, First Baronet.
Admin/Biographical History
Joseph Simon was a successful trader and owned enormous tracts of land in the West. As the head of one of the earliest Jewish families in Lancaster County, he was also a religious leader in Lancaster,Pa. See Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 3, number 7 (1899), p. 165-172.
The Dr. Elizabeth Bricker Collection contains papers from the Bricker family of Cocalico Twp., Brickerville, and Lititz. Included are genealogical charts, correspondence, family histories, wills, photographs, land surveys, legal papers, and Bricker Store account books. There are also advertising fliers, merchant catalogs, political papers and pamphlet, and two almanacs.
The Jeremiah B. Haines Collection contains papers pertaining to the establishment of a post office in Little Britain, and regulation and certification of the postmaster. There is also personal and legal correspondence, a photograph, original stock certificates, bonds, receipts, and a statement. Various legal papers include surveys and warrants, indentures and deeds, land drafts and a plan of land, and other land agreements. There is a trespass notification, a power of attorney, and a resolution passed by the Conowingo Bridge Company.
The Conestoga Church of the Brethren Records contain photocopies of the baptism records of the Conestoga Church of the Brethren from 1734 to 1849. The Conestoga Church of Brethren was founded in 1724.
This collection contains transcribed copies and carbon copies of the letters to and from Col. Henry Bouquet from 1758-1765. All of these letters are dated in Lancaster as mentioned in the 1930 letter from Lucien Brault of Ottawa, CAN, to C. H. Martin Esq., of Lancaster, also included in this collection. The letters mainly detail wants and needs of the troops and Bouquet, including the need for supplies, troops, ammunition and the case of Bouquet's personal needs, a new pair of trousers. These are recurrent in the letters as are the continuous requests for discharges and promotions.
This collection contains letters, family papers, deeds, diaries, and mill records from three generations of the Gibbons family. The collection starts with documents focused on James Gibbons, then contains papers central to Daniel Gibbons, and finally end with the third generation papers surrounding Joseph Gibbons. The letters in this collection span from 1783 until 1865. The contents within the letters describe the daily happenings within the family and on their property which was located in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The family deeds in the collection detail the exchanging of property to and from the Gibbons family mostly within Lampeter Township and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County. The deeds span from 1727 to 1879. Also included are some miscellaneous family papers that span from 1799 to 1871. The content of these family papers ranges from anonymous stories about the Gibbons family, an independent order of Good Templars of Joseph Gibbons, to a land draft of James Gibbons' Land. This collection also contains diaries from various members of the Gibbons family, spanning the three generations. These diaries detail the day to day lives of the Gibbons family and also include historical anniversaries of important events or detail the passing of members within the Gibbons family and the surrounding community. The Mill Records in the collection contain information about [ ]. Overall, the Gibbons Family collection includes the regular happenings over the family's three generations in both business and secular life.
