This book itself is just an old volume on Germanic philology and is of no special value, but it has a small sheet of paper with an inscription by the author, Joseph Bosworth, himself, which makes it much more interesting than otherwise. According to the inscription, Bosworth, who lived and wrote this book in Rotterdam (so the dedication at the beginning of the volume is dated Rotterdam August 1836), gave this copy to a Dr Lee with his best regards on 11 March 1837.
Dr Lee left his own signature 'J. Lee' in this volume, and judging from the bookplate, it seems that he is John Lee LLD (1783-1866), an English lawyer, antiquarian, philanthropist, astronomer, mathematician, and numismatist.
Dr Lee seems to have lent it almost immediataly after he got it (even before he had it bound in the present binding) to someone whose initials are A. G. S.; this person, very much impressed by Bosworth's great scholarship, left a short but very formal thank-you note in a neat hand, dated 28 April 1837. The note is on a sheet of paper apparently different from the rest of the volume, and it seems that Dr Lee decided to include it when he had the volume bound in London in June 1837.
Dr Lee later gave the copy to J. Y. Akerman (perhaps John Yonge Akerman (1806-73), an English antiquarian and numismatist), who left his (not very impressive) signature and a short note reading 'Ex dono J. Lee' on the flyleaf.
Still later it came into possession of someone called W. H. May, who left a signature on the title page (I do not know who this person is but I have two or three other books with his signature).
Thus this volume carries much information about its provenance and is quite interesting in this respect.