AHN, F.

A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Swedish Language After the System of F. Ahn.

London, Franz Thimm,, 1858. Original buckram boards, spine lettered gilt (Lenström's Swedish Grammar), upper cover stamped in blind. vi+149pp. publisher's lists to endpapers. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Collectable; Very Good An interesting early example of language teaching theory: "The editor of this Grammar has followed the rational System.." c.f. Direct and Natural Methods. Hardcover.

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Book number: 33484

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Keywords: Swedish|Scandinavian|Grammar|Antiquarian|Featured

ALIVA, R.

The Young Ladies' First French Book. With a Vocabulary of the French and English, and the English and French of All the Words Used in the Book.

London, Hope and Co. 1854. Original 1854 first edition. Generally scarce (see COPAC). Small 8vo. orig. cloth, blind stamped, xiv+222pp. Spine unlettered,and frayed in places, cloth bubbled and rucked, inner joint cracked, very occ. pencil annotations but on the whole, for a school primer, in good condition. Used; Good From the library of Lady Sybil Stewart. Rene Aliva also wrote 'The French Language its own Teacher' and the 'Anti-Spelling Book' ".. calculated to be of immense utility to those young people who, disgusted by the pedantic manner in which French is taught.." . Hardcover.

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Book number: 33490

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Keywords: French|Juvenalia|Antiquarian|Children's|Featured

Allan, John

Verses [by John Allan (Nalla)]

Ayr, Ayrshire Post, 1932. A very nice bright hardback copy in original cloth. Clean and tight. Pages slightly yellowing with age; lacks f.e.p. else very good. Used; Very Good By the author of "Jean Sma'" and other Scots poems. Hardback.

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Book number: 35904

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: Language|Scots|Poetry|Featured

ALLIES, Jabez

On the Ancient British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities of Worcestershire.

London and Worcester, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. and R. Groombridge, 1840. A good, tight, copy. Original printer's buckram boards, printed label to spine. Printed by Deighton and Co. Worcester. Two engraved plates, engraved tail-piece, subscribers' list. Small tear to spine head, a little loss to title label, mild internal foxing else very good. Author's presentation copy to a Mr Davidson Esq with a later owner's (Mr Frederick Houghton) neat ex-libris to paste-down. Jabez Allies (1787 – 1856) was an English folklorist and antiquarian. Born at Lulsley, Worcestershire, where his family had resided for generations. He was one of the earliest writers on folklore. In early youth he was deeply impressed by the lingering relics of Roman and Saxon days and by the pastoral life that characterised his native place and later in life and threw light upon vestiges of Roman occupation in his native county. Hardback.

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Book number: 37226

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Keywords: Roman|Antiquarian|Featured|Saxon|Worcester|Folk Lore|Ex-Libris|Ancient World

AMERY, Captain H F S (Black Watch) (A M Asquith)

English Arabic Vocabulary for the Use of Officials in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Compiled in the Intelligence Department of the Egyptian Army.

Cairo, Al-Mokattam Printing Office, 1905. Contemporary rather rough quarter leather, buckram boards. xiii+451[iv]pp. Rubbed, inner joint cracked, paper brittle and browned. Used; Good Interesting provenance: inscribed A M Asquith, Khartoum 1906. A M ('Oc') Asquith was the third son of the British Prime Minister. He served in the Egyptian Civil Service from1906–11. The author, H F Saphir Amery, younger brother of Leo Amery and uncle of Julian Amery, was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army in 1901, and remained in Egypt till 1911, acting as Assistant Director of Intelligence and Indian Agent. Amery was a gifted linguist, with an exceptional knowledge of Eastern languages. Hardback.

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Book number: 33777

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Keywords: Dictionary|Arabic|Sudan|African|Military|Antiquarian|Featured

ANON (Ex libris Hely Hutchinson)

Authentische Akten Stücke Als Beiträge Zur Statistik Der Dänischen Staaten in Den Letztern Siebziger Jahren Aus Den Papieren Eines Ehemaligen Staatsmannes Am Hofe Dieses Nordischen Reiches.

Lübeck, 1795. 8vo. half calf marbled boards, 326 pp. No publishing details. Possibly printed in Lübeck. Text in German and in French. 10 folding tables. In very good condition internally. Crisp and clean. Neatly re-backed in ruled calf, contemporary marbled boards. With John Hely Hutchinson's armorial bookplate to paste-down. THAARUP 629 (1825).

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Book number: 38083

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Keywords: Antiquarian|Featured|Central Europe|Economics|History|Denmark|Ex-Libris

ANON (Madame N. L. )

La Bagatelle. Intended to Introduce Children of Four or Five Years Old to Some Knowledge of the French Language. A New Edition Embellished with Cuts, Entirely Revised

London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Company. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder, 1855. New edition. Small 8vo. full green soft leather (sheep?), title to upper board, untitled spine ruled gilt. iv+162pp. Very attractively illustrated throughout with in-text woodcuts and colophons. Much rubbed at edges, upper board creased at corner, modern tape repair to inner joints, may lack front-free end-paper and half title. However complete and mainly clean. Woodcuts reprinted from early nineteenth century. This primer, was frequently reprinted by different publishers but is nevertheless scarce. The COPAC earliest listed edition (referenced by Alston) is a two-volume work published between 1779 and 1789. No author is given.

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Book number: 37267

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: Antiquarian|Children's|Illustrated|French|Featured

ARMSTRONG, Robert and ARMSTRONG, Thomas.

English Etymology: For the Use of Schools. Fifth Edition. By Robert Armstrong of Madras College, St Andrews and Thomas Armstrong of Heriot Foundation School Edinburgh.

Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, n.d. Small 8vo. original green buckram, title in gilt to upper board. 166pp. 24pp publisher's lists. Advertisement bound into title page. In good condition, clean and tight but mild signs of age and usage. Spine head and tail nicked, contemporary ink inscription to endpapers and occasionally within. The first owner, Alexander D. Adamson also of Madras College (see Robert Armstrong), living at 2 Howard Place, St Andrews, dated 1879, has practised his attractive copperplate inscription in a youthful hand a number of times on the endpapers. An unusual edition. Not in COPAC in this format. The 'Introduction to English Etymology' was first published in 1858.

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Book number: 38128

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Keywords: English|Featured|Philology|Dictionary|Antiquarian|Etymology

ATKINS, H. G.. (Talwin Morris design)

A Skeleton French Grammar: With Exercises.

London, Glasgow and Bombay. Blackie and Son, n.d. Original decorated red cloth, viii+80 pp. Boards a little marked, internally tight and clean. Scarce with Talwin Morris design to upper board. "Talwin Morris (1865 – 1911) prominent graphic artist in Charles Rennie Mackintosh circle. His innovative book cover designs, introduced the "Glasgow Style" to a wider audience.

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Book number: 38040

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Keywords: French|Grammar|Featured|Book-Cover-Design|Art

Audot [July (French) Revolution].

Evenémens de Paris, Des 26,27,28 & 29 Juillet 1830: Par Plusieurs Témoins Oculaires. Quatrième édition, Continuée Jusqu'Au Au Serment de Louis-Philippe 1er, Et Augmentée de la Chartre, Avec L'Indication Comparée Des Nouvelles Modifications, de Plusieurs Articles Intéressans, Et de la Marche Parisienne, de M. Casimir Delavigne, Avec la Musique.

Paris, Audot, 1830. Original blind-stamped morocco, 16 mo. 135x85 mm, all edges gilt, 215pp./ Strikingly printed on paper coloured blue, white and red - with 1p. music. Upper board starting but generally strong, spine head pulled a little, lacks front free end-paper and one blank at rear. Otherwise a very good tight copy. Fourth edition. Les soixante-douze premières pages imprimées sur papier bleu; pp.73-144 sur papier blanc et pp.145 jusqu'à la fin sur papier rose. COPAC gives one copy of 5th edition.

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Book number: 37518

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Keywords: Featured|Revolution|Antiquarian|History|France

BALMER, W. T.. and GRANT, F. C. F..

A Grammar of the Fante-Akan Language:

London, The Atlantis Press, 1929. Small 8vo. hardback. Original cloth lettered gilt. 224pp. Contemporary owner name neatly in ink to f.e.p. - Sekondi, 1938. Cloth damp marked, with occasional insect holes to cloth and inner joint. Spine ends a little pulled. Internally clean and tight. Fante (Fanti), also known as Fanti, Fantse, or Mfantse is one of the four principal members of the Akan dialect continuum, along with Asante, Bono and Akuapem, the latter three collectively known as Twi, with which it is mutually intelligible.

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Book number: 38509

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: Africa|Featured|Philology|Twi|Fante|Akan

BARNABAS HERMAS James Ussher, Edward Bernard

Epistola: [Tou Hagiou Barnaba Tou Apostolou Epistole Katholike]. ??? ????? ?a??aßa T?? ?P?St???? Ep??T??? ?a??????. Sancti Barnabae Apostoli, Epistola Catholica. Accessit S. Hermae Viri Apostolici Pastor. Oxoniae : E Theatro Sheldoniano 1685

Oxford Oxoniae, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1685. 12 mo.(74x128mm), 2 parts in one.Contemporary full calf, ruled and decorated in blind, raised bands to spine, no label. Title vignette depicting the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. [36], 115, [29], 200, [4] p. Last leaf blank. Text printed in red and black. Includes index. Complete with all pages. Internally in very good condition, tight and crisp. No annotations. Spine head chipped, upper hinge a little fragile, paste-downs unstuck. Text of Barnabas' Epistle printed in red and black. Includes index. The so-called Epistle of Barnabas was probably written by a Christian at Alexandria ca 70-100 A.D. S. Hermae Pastor has divisional title page. Greek text with Latin translation on parallel pages; S. Hermae Pastor in Latin only. Wing B849. ESTC R1408.

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Book number: 38078

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Keywords: Classics|Classical Greek|Latin|Religion|Featured|Antiquarian|Bible |Theology

BARRETT, David Dean.

A Primer in the Writing of Chinese Characters: Second Edition, Revised.

Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, Limited. 1936. 8vo. original black cloth, printed paper label to upper board, spine lettered gilt. 98pp. A very nice, clean tight copy. Best edition. Ernest Wignall's name neatly to endpaper. First edition published in Tientsin in 1934. In the preface it is mentioned that Dr. Ingram, to whom the author was indebted for etymological explanations, was murdered by bandits in the Western Hills near Peking! .

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Book number: 38111

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Keywords: China|Featured|Alphabets and Scripts

BASS, J. H..

A Greek and English Manual Lexicon to the New Testament: With Examples of All the Irregular and More Difficult Inflections.

1820. 12 mo. (9x14cm.). Original full calf, morocco label, spine blind tooled, embossed boards, gilt dentelles, marbled fore-edges and endpapers. Engraved vignette to title. 183 pp. in two columns. J D Rodgers, Clare Hall contemporary name neatly in ink to front endpaper. Spine head a little pulled, a little rubbed at edges else a very crisp, clean and tight copy. Unusual. "This little volume is confessedly a manual Lexicon for young students of the Grock Testament. Its author has carefully abridged the more diffuse explanations of other Lexicons; but it is noticed here, principally because it contains nearly fifty articles commonly omitted in other Lexicons of the New Testament, and which are supplied from the fourth edition of Schleusner.." Hartwell Horne (1825).

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Book number: 37973

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BECKER, W. G.. (Ed. Friedrich Kind)

W.G. Becker's Taschenbuch Zum Geselligen Vergnügen. 1827. Herausgegeben Von Friedrich Kind Auf Das Jahr 1827. Mit Königl. Sächsischem Allergnädigstem Privilegio.

Leipzig, Georg Joachim Göschen, 1827. Original engraved paper covered boards, 9 cm.x12 cm. all edges gilt, morocco and gilt library number to spine (2552), xxxviii+424pp. c. 7pp. publisher's advertisements, engraved frontis. engraved half-title and some 11 other copper engravings. Dance music and notation. A very nice bright copy. Tight and clean. A little chipping to spine. With Felix Schwab's engraved bookplate Ex-libris by Seligman to paste-down.

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Book number: 38076

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Keywords: German|Featured|Literature|Illustrated|Ephemera|Ex-Libris