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Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759
Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759

Rare F & I War, Revolutionary War era Latin Grammar, London: 1759

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Availability: 41 in stock
  • Binding: Leather
  • Place of Publication: London
  • Personalized: Yes
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Subject: Military & War
  • Topic: Latin Grammar
  • Signed: Yes
  • Region: Europe
  • Publisher: S. Buckley and T. Longman
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Modified Item: Yes
  • Year Printed: 1759
  • Modification Description: Signed by early owner in ink "William Raymond, His Grammar, 1765" on inside front flyleaf.
  • Language: Latin

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    A Short Introduction of Grammar, Compiled and set forth or the bringing up of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latin Tongue
    (London: Printed by S. Buckley & T. Longman, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew,1759), 32mo, leather, 196pp. Bound with
    Lily's RULES CONSTRUED: Where unto are added Tho. Robinson's Heteroclites, The Latin Syntaxis, Also There are are added the Rules for the Genders of Nouns, and Preterperfect Tenses, and Supines of Verbs, in English alone
    (London: S. Buckley & T. Longman, 1759), 94pp. Inscribed in ink on front flyleaf "William Raymond, His Grammar, 1765."
    Leather Boards and Spine are chipped and worn with age, rear board beginning to separate, but contents tight and clean. Leather remains supple.
    I'd like to claim this copy was with a British Officer serving under General Wolfe before Quebec in September 1759, or  another attacking Fort Niagara the same year. But you get the idea--these Latin Grammars were an essential part of any gentleman's education, as Latin was the required language of classical studies, and remained so well into the 19th century.