ANDROVIC, Giovanni.

Dizionario Delle Lingue Croata E Italiana. Parte II: Croato-Italiana.

Ljubljana and Milan, Ulrico Hoepli Editore, 1943 -XXI, 1943. Original red buckram, black printed title to spine and upper board, paper yellowing, inner joint cracked. 10cmX15cm. xvi+705pp. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good Printing details run: "Stamperia Popolare in Lubiana 1943-XXI (Stampato in Italia)" . Hardcover.

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Book number: 34184

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ANON.

Burt's Swedish-English Dictionary: In Two Parts. Swedish-English, English- Swedish. New Edition. Revised and Enlarged. Burt's Svensk-Engelsk Ordbok. I Två Afdelningar.

New York, Burt, n.d. Small 8vo. 11 x 16 cm. full red cloth, gilt lettered and ruled, 300pp. 435pp. 2 columns. Earlier owner's ink note loosely enclosed. A very attractive, clean tight copy. Burt's was a New York publishing house from 1883 until 1937 founded by Albert Levi Burt. While working as a travelling salesman he had come to recognise the demand for inexpensive reference works. Burt's later became known for specialising in inexpensive children's and popular fiction.

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Book number: 38017

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ANON

Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew Dictionary.

Tel-Aviv, DVIR, 1951. Pocket dictionary, cloth backed printed boards, 9x13 cm. 247+163 pp. in two columns. Ludwig Mayer's bookshop label, Jerusalem, to paste-down. Paper yellowed brittle due to paper quality of the time, light signs of wear else very good, tight and clean. Early post-war Modern Hebrew pocket dictionary.

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Book number: 38011

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BENIAC, Jan

Neues Wörterbuch Der Deutschen Und Slowakischen Sprache I Teil: [German Into Slovak. Slovakia Third Reich]. Novy Slovnik Nemeckej a Slovenskej Reci. V Dvoch Dieloch. In Zwei Teilen. I. Teil: Deutsch-Slowakisch.

Leipzig , Holtze's Nachfolger, 1943. Pocket dictionary, 11 x 16 cm. c443 pp. Cloth backed boards printed in red and black with Slovak coat-of-arms to upper board. A little pulled at spine head, paper to upper board scarred at edges. Otherwise a good, tight copy with usual browning of paper. Compiled by Jan Beniac. Preceded in 1941 by a Slovak into German dictionary. Interesting Third Reich publication giving credence to the nominally independent Slovakia by affirming its distinct language and displaying its coat-of arms. .

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Book number: 38014

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BENIAC, Jan u. SEEWARTH, Josef Maria

Taschenwörterbuch Der Slowakischen Und Deutschen Sprache I Teil: [Slovak Into German. Slovakia Third Reich] Vreckovy Slovnik Slovensko-Nemecky I. Diel... . Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung Der Neuesten Rechtschreibung, Genehmigt Mit Erlaß Des Ministeriums Für Schulwesen Und Volkskultur in PreßBurg Vom 12. Februar, Zahl 541 Präs.

Leipzig , Holtze's Nachfolger, 1941. Fünfte, gänzlich umgearbeitete Auflage. Pocket dictionary, 10 x 12 cm. c. 500 pp. Cloth backed boards printed in red and black with Slovak coat-of-arms to upper board. Round purple Third Reich rubber stamp (Gummistempel Hakenkreuz) to title page, lettering indistinct. In good condition. Lacks front free endpaper, small tie-marks to lower board. Else a very good tight copy. Slovak into German pocket dictionary (followed in 1943 by its German into Slovak counterpart). Compiled by Jan Beniac and Josef Maria Seewarth. Stated fifth edition but possibly first thus and adapted from Holtze's Bohemian/Czech editions. Interesting Third Reich publication giving credence to the nominally independent Slovakia by affirming a distinct language and displaying its coat-of arms. .

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Book number: 38013

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CERMAK, Alois. Cermák

Bohemian-English and English-Bohemian. New Pocket Dictionary. English-Czech, Czech-English Dictionary. Novy Kapesni Slovnik Anglicko-Cesky a Cesko-Anglicky. For School, Office and House. Pro Skolu, Pisarnu a Dum.

Trebic (Moravia) V Trebíci (na Morave), J. Lorenz, n.d. Two parts in one. Cloth back printed boards, 10x13x3cm. c. 800 pp arranged in two columns. Foreign Office stamps (1955) and labels neatly outside and inside. A very tight clean copy. Unmarked, no loss. The original printed price is given as Kcs.70. Lorenz's publishing house operated until 1949.

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GOELZER, Henri

Le Latin En Poche. Dictionnaire Français-Latin. Extrait Du Nouveau Dictionnaire Français-Latin Contenant Tous Les Mots Usuels de la Langue Française. Nouvelled édition Revue Et Corrigée.

Paris, Garnier, 1940. Reprint. Original limp red cloth printed and ruled in black. 10.5 x 16 cm. 733 pp. in two columns. In very good condition despite some browning of paper. Very clean and tight. Prof. Paul S Falla's copy with his name in ink to f.e.p. Pocket French into Latin dictionary first published thus in 1929.

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Book number: 38012

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GORANOFF, K. N. et POPOFF, J. P.. GORANOV.

Français-Bulgare: Contenant Tous Les Mots Usuels Avec Leur Prononciation Figurée. Petits Dictionnaires Garnier.

Paris, Librarie Garnier Frères. 1926. Pocket edition. 8.5 x 13.5 cm. limp red cloth (stiffened later). Printed in black to covers. 471 pp. in two columns. Generally good condition. Clean and tight but paper browning. Corner chipped, spine sunned and just a little creased. French into Bulgarian pocket dictionary.

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Book number: 38088

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GORANOV', K. H..

Maljk' B'Lgarsko-Frenski Rijechnik. Bulgare Français. Petits Dictionnaires Garnier.

Paris, Librarie Garnier Frères. 1938. Pocket edition. 8.5 x 13.5 cm. Usual limp red cloth printed in black. 450 pp. in two columns. In very good condition. A very slight fraying to edges. Cloth bright and clean. Professor P. S. Falla's copy with his name neatly in pencil to f.e.p. Bulgarian into French pocket dictionary.

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Book number: 38087

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KARIM, M. A..

Malay - English and English - Malay Dictionary. (Malaysian). Kamus Melayu - Inggeris Inggeris - Melayu.

Kuala Lumpur, Abdul Hamid, 1957. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. 10cm x14cm. 311pp. Pocket dictionary. Used; Very Good "The utmost value in a pocket dictionary". Published in the year Malaysia became the Independent Federation of Malaya (later to become Malaysia). Hardcover.

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Book number: 29241

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KOSTALLARI, A. (Ed.)

Karmany Russko-Albansky Slovar'. Russian Into Albanian Pocket Dictionary.

Moscow, Gos. Izdat. Inostrann'kh i Natsional'n'kh Slovarei, 1959. Original red Soviet cloth lettered in red. Very attractive small pocket dictionary, 9 x13 cm. 428pp. Paper yellowing as is usual. Used; Very Good Russian into Albanian pocket dictionary (8200) words. An important reminder, not only of the politics of the time, but the extent to which linguistic research, and consequently publishing, in the Soviet Union developed at the time. Hardcover.

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Book number: 30590

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RICHARDS, W..

A Pocket Dictionary Welsh - English and an English and Welsh Dictionary. Geiriadur Llogeli Cymraeg a Saesoneg Wedi Ei Adolygu, Ei Ddiwygio, a'i Helaethu

Wrecsam Wrexham, Hughes and Son, 1861. 2 vols. in one. 316+432pp. A very good, tight and clean copy in original cloth. Chunky 12mo. spine lettered gilt, boards blind stamped. A little rubbed at edges. First edition thus. Collectable; Very Good By William Richards (1749 - 1818 ), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary. First edition thus, and first complete edition. Although the English into Welsh part was published by Hughes of Wrexham during Richards' lifetime, the Welsh into English part was left in MS. Hughes & Williams, 1988. Oddy, 1959. Hardback.

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Book number: 31653

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WASSILIEFF, A.. [Assoc. LIBRAIRIE INTERNATIONALE XEN. SERGHIADES]

Deutsch-Russisch: Praktisches Taschenwörterbuch Der Umgangssprache Mit Der Aussprache SæMtlicher Woerter Und Einem Verzeichnis Der UnregelmæSsigen Haupt- Und Zeitwoerter. Gearbeitet Von... Garnier'Sche Wörterbücher.

Paris, Librarie Garnier Frères. 1921. Pocket edition. 8.5 x 13.5 cm. limp red cloth. Printed in gilt and black to covers. 394 pp. in two columns. Garnier advertisements to endpapers. 'Librarie Internationale' Xen. Serghiades, Pèra stamp to title page. Cloth quite sunned, a little wear to leading corners, very slightly warped from holding but a solid, tight copy. Clean throughout. German into Russian pocket dictionary. Old Russian orthography.

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Book number: 38091

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WESSELY, J. E.. (Tolhausen, Payn, Heymann)

Pocket Dictionary of the English and French Languages. Dictionnaire de Poche. Anglais-Français Et Français-Anglais. Thirty-Second Edition. Re-Written, Improved, and Greatly Enlarged by L. Tolhausen and G. Payn in Collaboration with M Eug. Heymann.

Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1909. Small 8vo. original red cloth, gilt lettered, brown endpapers,vi[ii]+272+231pp. John Gretton's neat bookplate to paste-down. A very nice, clean, tight copy but spine very sunned and a little marked. By the 1900s, Tauchnitz were generally better known to the English reading public as publishing inexpensive paperback British and American literature. Sales were limited to the continent of Europe. Hence the well-known statement: "Not to be introduced into England or into any British colony".

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Book number: 38009

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