Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916. 1st ed. Hardcover. color frontis (folding map), maps (some folding), charts, tables, index, 181p. plus (8) leaves of plates. Dark blue cloth. 25cm. No Jacket. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 244. An attempt to determine migration-routes based on evidence from the vocabulary of..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hardcover. index, xxi, 316p. dj (price-clipped). 22cm. Jacket lightly scuffed and has some edge-wear. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953. 1st ed. Paperback. map, [4], 290p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Modest wear including a small chip along fore-edge on front cover. University of California Publications in Linguistics (series). Language spoken today by about 14,000 Hanunoo, one of about eight indigenous groups (which are..... More
Lyon: Chez B. Cormon et Blanc, 1804. Hardcover. [6], 422p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 20cm. Binding solid. Extremities worn. Backstrip heavily chipped at ends and has many small cracks. Text has some browning but is otherwise sound. French text. More
Bogota: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1959-1987. Paperback. Tomo 3, fascicules 1, and 3-21 only. Original wrappers. 29cm. Fasciculo 1 darkened. Unopened. Spanish text. Covers most of the letter "E": ea-empeorar, en-extremo. More
New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1970. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Dalby, David, editor. Language and History in Africa: A Volume of Collected Papers Presented to the London Seminar on Language and History in Africa (Held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1967-69). NY: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1970. 1st..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (c. 1990). Hardcover. frontis, index, xix, 480p. Hardcover. dj. 23cm. Review slip laid in. More
Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics, n.d. [1968 or earlier]. unnumbered [we counted 281 leaves printed on one side]. Unbound photocopy on standard inexpensive paper sheets in old unmarked file folder. 28cm. Reproduction is not fabulous but certainly quite legible -- probably a photocopy of a photocopy. Introductory and explanatory material..... More
Paris: J. Andre, 1900. Hardcover. folding map, xiv, 226, [2]p. Rebound in modern light brown buckram. 27cm. Contents moderately browned. French text. More
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1982. Hardcover. 392p. Hardcover. 23cm. No Jacket. More
London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1945. Paperback. index, 199p. Softcover in original blue wrapper. 25cm. Backstrip chipped at top and has some cellophane tape reinforcement. Former owner's name. More
Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand Press, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. photos, folding maps, viii, 298p. 24cm. Light cover spotting. A couple of purple library stamps (Bible Institute of South Africa) and a former owner's name. Minor foxing (mostly on endpapers). No Jacket. More
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University, 1969. Paperback. index, 129p. Wrapper. 25cm. Former owner's name. Minor foxing. More
Moskva: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1960. Paperback. 82p. Wrapper. 22cm. Name on half-title. A few ink annotations. Russian text. Dari is the Afghan dialect of farsi (Persian). More
[Abidjan]: Universite d'Abidjan, Institut de Linguistique Appliquee, 1971. Paperback. maps, 323p. plus brief Table des Matieres followed by [2]p. errata. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm. "Nouveau Tirage" stamped on front cover. French text. Atlas Linguistique de Cote d'Ivoire, XIX (series). We don't know whether any further volumes were published in..... More
Washington, D.C. 1922. Paperback. 30p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Lower right corner tip chipped on text leaves. More
Baghdad: Government Press, 1920. Hardcover. index, [4], 86, iv(p.). Original mustard-colored boards narrowly-backed in red cloth. 19 cm. Former owners's name (HM. Jackson) on front cover. Stamped on title-page: Chief Education Officer GHQ. P.A.I.F. No jacket (did it ever have one?). Rusted areas around rusty staples (which seem to be..... More
Istanbul: Ucler Basimevi, 1947. Paperback. 160p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Cover somewhat soiled. Istanbul Universitesi. Edebiyat Fakultesi No. 367. Turkish text. More
New York: Mamasian, 1949. Paperback. 137, 186p. Wrapper. 22cm. Cover soil. Contents moderately browned but otherwise sound and clean. Armenian text followed by an Armenian-English dictionary. Added title-page in English: Gathnaghbur: Mangavarzhagan Keragan-Unthertzaran with Armenian and Latin Characters. This item was printed in Venice, Italy. More
The Hague: Mouton, 1974. Hardcover. 169p. dj. 24cm. More
Bogota: 1984. Paperback. 463p. Original wrapper. 23cm. Spanish text. Publicaciones del Instituto Caro y Cuervo;; 69. More
Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1959, 1950. Paperback. 92p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Some foxing. Cover edges browned. "Personal Copy" and a difficult-to-decipher signature (Frei's?) on first blank page. More
Halis Saxonum: Schwetschke et Filium, 1837. Hardcover. 694p. Attractive modern quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in brown leather. 29cm. Two circular stains on title-page. Scattered foxing. Abridged from his similarly-titled four volume work published 1830-1837. More
Zurich: Heinrich Bodmer, n.d. [early 18th century]. Hardcover. 2 vols in 1. 755, 366p. Later, but old, marbled boards. 19cm. Binding sound but worn. Spine concave. Lacks several pages, mostly at the ends, including the frontis, title-page and quite a few other early pages in Vol. I. Also appears to..... More
London: Kegan Paul, (1988). Hardcover. index, xxxi, 282p. 22cm. More
