Karmannyi russko-persidskii slovar'
Moskva: Gos. izd-vo inostrannykh i natsional'nykh slovarei, 1959. Hardcover. 796p. Cloth. 13cm. Name on endpaper. No Jacket. Russian text. Added title-page in Persian. Russian-Persian dictionary. More
Linguistics
Kelen-u Cimeg; Mongol'skoe Grammaticheskoe XIX veka: Mongol'skii Tekst, Svodnyi Tekst i Perevod, Vvedenie i Primechaniia
Ulan-Ude: Buriatskoe knizhnoe izd-vo, 1962. Paperback. 134p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Light cover wear. Mongolian text (with an appendix: Grammatika Tibetskogo Iazyka). More
Turkisch fur Schulen und Gelbstunterricht
Wien: 1948. Paperback. 48p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. Pages printed on one side only. Backsrip worn. Text browned. German Text (with lots of Romnized Turkish). More
Lessons in Elementary Wen-Li
Shanghai: The China Inland Mission, 1924. Hardcover. index, ix, 128p. Original 1/4 leather (with dark cloth). 24 cm. Leather backstrip dry and somewhat scuffed. Text in Wen-Li (Literary Chinese) and English. More
Sammlung und Bearbeitung Central-Afrikanischer Vokalularien. Zweite Abtheilung. Einleitung, Kap. 7-12: Analyse der Fulfulde-, Songyai-, Logone-, Wandala-, Bagrimma-, und Maba-Sprachen = Collection of Central-African Languages. 2d Part. ... Analysis of the Fulfulde-, Songyai, Logone-, Wandala-, Bagrimma-, and Maba-Languages [2nd part]
Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1863. Paperback. This part only. pp.cc-cccxxxiv. Wrapper. 27cm. Lacks back cover and most of backstrip. Shaken. Mostly light foxing. A few stains. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate. German text and English translation on facing pages. Second of three parts. More
La Langue Berbere: Morphologie, le Verbe, Etude de Themes
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1929. Paperback. [vii]-lii, 268p. Original wrapper. 24cm. Backstrip browned. Former owner's name. Light foxing. Collection du Centenaire de l"Algerie, 1830-1930: Vie Intellectuelle et Artistique. (series). More
Notes d'Ethnographie et de Linguistique Nord-Africaines Publiees par L. Brunot et E. Laoust
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1924. Paperback. iv, 272p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Cover rather foxed and worn (chipping, cellophane tape reinforcement around front joint, etc.). Former owner's name. Moderate browning. French text. Publications de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Marocaines, tome XII. More
The Gospel of Matthew in Arabic, Printed with All the Vowels, According to the Simplified Method of the Revd. Jules Ferrette ... with an Introductory Explanation of the Method, Both in Its Mechanical and Philological Part
London: Samuel Bagster, n.d. [1863?]. Hardcover. viii, 118p. Original cloth. Titled in gilt on front cover. 16 cm. Modest fading on backstrip and around edges of front cover. Library stamping on front free endpaper indicating that this was owned and discarded by Redemptorist Communities in Ireland. Arabic text with Introduction..... More
Ethiopia & Amharica: A List of Works in the New York Public Library
New York: New York Public Library, 1928. 1st ed. Paperback. index, 87p. Wrapper. 26cm. More
A Course in the Analysis of Chinese Characters
Shanghai: The Commerical Press, Limited, 1935. Hardcover. frontis, chart, vii, 384p. Original blue cloth. dj. 23cm. Former owner's red stamp in upper right corner of front free endpaper. Light blue ink stain on edge of first few pages. Cover sightly warped at top. Backstrip of jacket scuffed, partly where a...... More
Dictionnaire Universelle de la Langue Francoise, avec le Latin et les Etymologies; Manuel de Grammaire, d'Orthographe et de Neologie; Extrait Comparatif, Concordance et Supplement de Tous les Dictionnaires....
Paris: Chez Verdiere Libraire, Quaides Augustins, 1819. Hardcover. 2 vols. large folding table (at end of 2nd vol.), xxviii, [2], 892, [893]-1416, [2], 314p. plus [2]p. publisher's advertisements. Contemporary marbled boards backed in leather. Oblong (13 x 21cm.). Joints partially split (also evidence of some later gluing). First dozen leaves..... More
A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Language
Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1850. 32nd ed. Hardcover. x, 294, 173p. Contemporary leather. 19cm. Cover scuffed (missing several thin strips at edges). Ink and pencil markings on endpapers and adjacent blank leaves. More
Praktische Grammatik der bengalischen Umgangsprache, mit Einem bengalisch-deutschen und deutsch-bengalischen Glossar
Wien und Leipzig: A. Hartleben's Verlag, n.d. [1920s?]. Hardcover. 90p. Original cloth. 17 cm. Former owner's name stamp. No jacket. German text. More
Neoellenike philologia, etoi katalogos ton apo ptoseos tes Byzantines Autokratorias mechri enkathidryseos tes en Helladi basileias: typothenton biblion par' Hellenon eis ten homilumenen, e eis ten archaian Helleniken glossan....
En Athenai: 1854-1857. 173. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound in 1. 29, 272, 16, 366p. Old binding backed in leather. 21 cm. Greek text. Cover somewhat worn. Former owner's name on title-page. A few slips with notes laid in. Greek text. More
Swahili Grammar and Vocabulary
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1930). Later printing of the 2nd ed. Hardcover. vii, 263p. Original cloth. 18cm. Fraying at head of backstrip. No jacket. More
Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Bound volume containing two early issues (January, 1849 and January, 1850)
Bombay: 1849, 1850. Hardcover. First issue: caption title, 9 plates (3 folding), errata slip, 191p. Second issue: caption title, folding map (Sketch Map showing the Position of the Mud Craters of Hinglaj), 4 plates, 148p. Original wrappers were not preserved when this volume was originally bound. Now in an attractive..... More
[Grammatica Busbeiana Auctior & Emendatior, i.e. Rudimentum. Grammaticae Graeco-Latinae Metricum. In Usum Nobilium Puerorum in Schola Regia Westmonasterii]
[Londoni]: [Ex officina Eliz. Redmayne], [1702?]. Hardcover. [2], 214p. Old leather. 19cm. Minor worming on front cover. No titling on cover. Somewhat misaligned stamping on front and back covers. Front joint tender. Lacks title-leaf. Contents sound with extensive foxing and browning. Our pagination fits the 1702 edition; the 1689 ed..... More
Die Lautveranderung Aztekischer Worter in den Sonorischen Sprachen und die Sonorische Endung AME
Berlin: Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Hardcover. [433]-557p. Boards. 29cm. Hinges reinforced with paper tape. Ex lib. Mostly unopened. Reprinted from Abhandlungen der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1856. German text. More
Lyra prophetica Davidis Regis, sive, Analysis critico-practica Psalmorum. In qua omnes & singulae voces Hebraeae in Psalterio contentae ... in super Harmonia Hebraei textus cum paraphrasi Chaldea, & versione Graeca LXXII interpretum, in locis, sententiis discrepantibus, fideliter confertur: cui ad calcem addita est Brevis institutio linguae Hebraeae & Chaldaeae. Londini: Typis Eliz. Flescher: Prostat vero vanalis apud Gul. Morden
Cantabrigiae: 1679. Hardcover. [8], 352, [2], 69, [9], 46p. plus [1]p. publisher's advertisement.Old, but not original, 1/2 leather, recently rebacked. 23 cm. Cover sound but quite heavily rubbed and the extremities are worn. Two bookplates (Bristol Education Society and A. Gifford, D. D. of the Museum). Some foxing and browning;..... More
Initiation a l'Enquete Linguistique
Abidjan: Universite d'Abidjan, Institut de Linguistique Applique, (1971). Paperback. 142p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29cm. Text printed on one side. French text. First published in 1968 by the Section Linguistique Appliquee de l'Universite Federale du Cameroun. More
Methodo Practoco para Fallar a Lingua da Lunda contendo Narracoes Historicas dos Diversos Povos
Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1890. 1st ed. Hardcover. xv, [8], vii, 391p. Contemporary Portuguese quarterbinding. 23cm. Backstrip worn at ends and wormed. Light marginal stains on last 50 (or so) leaves. "Munger Africana Library" embossed lightly on title-leaf. Portuguese text. At head of title: Expedicao Portugueza ao Muatianvua. More
Enquete et description des langues a tradition orale
Paris: SELAF, 1971. Paperback. 5 softcover volumes in slipcase, as published. 26cm. French text 1. Introduction; Questionnaires grammaticaux; 3. phrases; 4. Techniques; and 5. Questionnaires thematiques. More
An Early Irish Reader
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927. Hardcover. index, vi, 75p. Original red cloth. 23 cm. No jacket. More
Easter Island: The Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia
Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1912. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, (5), 340p. Original cloth. 26 cm. Cover scuffed and somewhat worn. Minor fraying at ends of backstrip and at cover corners. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on title-page by Churchill ("To ... with the best love of the biggest of her boys")..... More
Sissano: Movements of Migration within and through Melanesia
Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. color frontis (folding map), maps (some folding), index, 181p. plus (8) leaves of plates. 25cm. Extremities rubbed. Title lettering dull. Endpapers browned. Minor foxing. No Jacket. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 244. An attempt to determine migration-routes based on evidence..... More