Alford, Henry

The Queen's English: A Manual of Idiom and Usage

London, England, George Bell and Sons, 1900. Reprint of the Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Stated reprint of the seventh edition of this uber-popular The author was then the Dean of Canterbury. Short hardcover format, blue cloth over boards, black and red lettering, ruling and illustration to front panel. Light bumping to spine head and foot. Very dark blue cloth over boards, toning to endpapers, else clean, tightly bound and unmarked of interior. 228 pp., 32 pp. of Bohn Library tomes also published.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Henry Alford The Queen's English language usage linguistics English language

Castelli (Castell), Edmundi (Edmund)

Lexicon Syriacum Ex Eius Lexico Heptaglotto Seorsim Typis Describi Curavit Atque Sua Adnotata Adiecit Joannes David Michaelis

Goettingae/Gottingen, Jo. Christian Dieterich, 1788. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stout, Imperial octavo hardcover in format, viii [3], 2-980 pp. Parts 1 and 2 each with their own title pages. Untrimmed copy. Front pastedown has note saying that the brown buckram cloth binding was done in 1916. Also there is a note on a tab just prior to the title page which reads as follows: â€oeImported by Schoenhof & Moeller, Boston, Jan. 24, 1872 $10.72.â€� This publishing firm was known as Schoenhof’s and was and is one of the most important importers of books in most of the languages of the world that have an emphasis on language tools such as dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, etc. There is an old stamp on the bottom of the title page which reads Schoenhof & Moeller, 40 Winter Street, Boston. Deaccessioned from the New Church Theological Seminary. Library stamps of The New Church Theological School on title page. 980 pp. Internally quite fine of appearance, waffly text-block, rag-paper is extra soft and lovely, but neither odor nor signs of damp-staining, neither underlining, marginalia, nor highlighting. Latin language text, Syrian language text, and edited by and heavily annotated by Joannes David Michaelis. Complete with Castelli’s Index Compensiorum Scriptionis, beginning at final Roman numeral-numbered page. New endpapers bound in front and rear.This is the Second Edition of this important, early Orientalist work, the First Edition having been published in 1669. According to a Wikipedia article about him, the author, the Brit, Edmund Castell, was born in Tadlow in Cambridgeshire, in 1606 and died in 1686. He entered college at the age of 15 when he matriculated to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining first a B.A. in 1624-25 and then his M.A. in 1628, becoming eventually Professor of Arabic in 1666. He taught Arabic and other â€oeOrientalâ€� languages for a number of years at Cambridge University. He and his colleague Dr. Brian Walton produced Lexicon Heptaglotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Aethipocum, Arabicum, et Persicum, also known as The Polyglot Bible (1657), a remarkably successful undertaking. The current work is alleged to have taken them 16 years to complete and was designed to augment The Polyglot Bible.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Edmundi Castelli|Edmund Castell|language|linguistics|Syrian|Latin|dictionary|Schoenhof & Moeller|Johann Christian Dietrich|Orientalism

Glaire, J[ean] B[aptiste]

Lexicon Manuale Hebraicum Et Chaldaicum in Quo Omnia Librorum Veteris Testamenti Vocabula Necron Linguae Sanctae Idiomata Explanantur

Paris, Lutetiae Parisiorum, Ex Typis Eberharti, Via Dicta du Foin S.-Jacques, 1830. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A very handsome little tome, virtually certainly rebound, gussied up in brown marbled paper over boards, a fine red Morocco leather over boards, gilt titling and flourishes to spine, and with newish blue marbled endpapers. Scuffing to tips and edges, bumping to spine head and foot, some very light soiling to and foxing to endpapers, else a clean and unmarked, tightly bound interior, quite bright and attractive. Double-column text, in Hebrew and Chaldian (Latin). The author was a professor in Paris's Societate Asiatica and full Professor of Hebrew language in the University of Paris Faculty of Theology. 372 pp., final two pages of blanks now stuck together.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Hebrew language|Latin|Chaldaicum|Hebraicum

Haidari, Mohamed Akbar Khan

The Munshi: A Standard Urdu Grammar, with Exercises and Full Vocabulary, Which Was Officially Recommended for Examinations in Urdu

Islamabad, Karachi, Pakistan, Haidari's Oriental Book Depot, 1961. Eighteenth Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still fairly sturdy. Fine glue-repair between boards and spine, holding strong. Bound in thin gray cloth over boards, with previous owner's name penned to front cover below author's name. Forward cock to spine, bumping to spine head and foot. Contains full exercises and vocabulary, xx + 262 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Sonstige Stichworte: Mohamed Akbar Khan Haidari |The Munshi|Urdu language|Urdu grammar|vocabulary|linguistics

Hannah, Herbert Bruce

Grammar of the Tibetan Language: Literary and Colloquial, with Copius Illustrations, and Treating Fully of Spelling

Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Dedicated to E. Denison Ross, "to whose interest in Tibetan it is due that this language has for the first time been introduced into the curriculum of a university. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed. That page suffers a short closed tear. Unfortunately missing the title page, but the book has been collated fully and is otherwise complete. Bound in olive-drab cloth over boards, and then a heavy craft paper thereover, exposing only the spine. A few dings to boards, else sturdy, and with a remarkably bright, unmarked interior. Published in Calcutta by the Baptist Mission Press, 1912. Herbert Bruce Hannah (1862 - 1930), a British lawyer in India and studied Tibetan in Darjeeling under Kazi Dawa Samdup. Lived in Calcutta as High Court Judge. xx [2], 2-396 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Tibetan language|English language|Herbert Bruce Hannah

N. Helsloot

Malay-English-Dutch Pocket Vocabulary of 20,000 Words (Compiled by )Published by Melbourne; Nd

Melbourne, Australia, F W Cheshire Pty Ltd, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Compiled by N. Helsloot, Head Mlay Department at the Netherlands Indies Government Information Service in Melbourne, Australia. Trilingual, large, pocket-book-sized dictionary designed for use presumably by English and Dutch expatriates throughout Malaysia. No date of publication, but appears to be circa 1930s. Simple brown softpaper wraps, lightly soiled and worn, clean interior. 142 pp., arranged in three columns for easy use.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Dutch language English language dictionary Southeast Asia

Johnson, Samuel

Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language in Miniature

London, Printed by C. Whittingham for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme et al., 1805. Nineteenth Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Stated Nineteenth Edition of Johnson's magnificent work of intellect and language, published a half-century after its first appearance in 1755. Rebound in white cloth over boards, gilt lettering and ruling to spine. New endpapers, the result being stiff, sturdy. Extensive penned inscription from former owner, verso of title page, thus leading to shadowing thereof. The iconic black-and-white engraving of Samuel Johnson opposite title page, soiled and toned a bit. Moderately toned of interior, double-column text for ease of reading, and with simple, short entries. Measures 5 3/4" x 3 7/8" wide and tall, respectively. First published as, colloquially, Johnson's Dictionary, it quickly became among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language; the story of Johnson's contracting by a group of London booksellers to write and have published, a dictionary, is a long and complicated, fascinating story; he earned, says his Wikipedia entry, "the sum of 1,500 guineas (£1,575), equivalent to about £260,000 in 2024." It took him seven years though he promised he could finish it in three. "He did so single-handedly, with only clerical assistance to copy the illustrative quotations that he had marked in books. Johnson produced several revised editions during his life." "J.H." (the Reverend Joseph Hamilton) provides a two-page advertisement up front and a list of abbreviations, then 276 pp. of double-column text including a chronological table. Most entries are a single line in length.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Samuel Johnson dictionary English history English culture language linguistics

Kachru, Yamuna

Aspects of Hindi Grammar

New Delhi, India, Manohar Publications, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities, slightly forward cocked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Edition, First Printing. The author was then Professor of Linguistics and Literature University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 161 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Sonstige Stichworte: linguistics Yamuna Kachru Hinid language Hindi grammer

Mathews, M.M., ed.

The Beginnings of American English: Essays and Comments

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good looking, structurally sound copy bound in black paper over boards, white cloth-backed, with bumping to spine head and foot, sunning to spine, slight fraying to spine head, published in First Edition state by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1931. ix + [1], 181 pp. A number of essays on important linguists and bibliographers such as Reverend John Witherspoon, David Humphreys, John Pickering, Mrs. Anne Royall, John Russell Bartlett, Noah Webster, Western and Southern vernacular, and James Fenimore Cooper. Previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, else clean and bright.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: M.M. Mathews|American English|linguistics|language|Noah Webster|vernacular language|James Fenimore Cooper|Southern vernacular

Vaziri, A.

Persian for You

Saadi Tehran, Hobbehaidar's Press, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Skinny little pamphlet instructing in Persian language, brown printed wraps, dampstained along spine, rubbing to spine, else clean of interior. 48 pp. and complete with English to Persian, Persian to English dictionary and simple phrase construction.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Sonstige Stichworte: Persian language A. Vaziri

Arrowsmith, William and Roger Shattuck, eds.

The Craft & Context of Translation

Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Personal copy of the long-time Director of the University of California Press, August Fruge. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Remainder mark along bottom edge, else clean, tightly bound and unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. First Printing of the First Edition of this influential work in the humanities. Contributions by the two editors and by D.S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Rexroth, Smith Palmer Bovie, Jean Paris, Werner Winter, Peter Arnott, Robert W. Corrigan, Sidney Monas, William Arrowsmith, Denver Lindley, Richard Howard, Frederic Will, George D. Schade and others. [2], 3-206 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,

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Sonstige Stichworte: translations|William Arrowsmith|Roger Shattuck|social sciences|humanities|poetry