INGLE, JAMES ADDISON:

... Hankow Syllabary. With References to Giles' Dictionary. Prepared for use in the American Church Mission. Hankow, Printed at the N.B.S.S. Mission Press, 1915.

. Pp. (ii), iv, 195. One page with small stain. Slightly later half cloth. Old ownership signature. Second edition, reprint of the first 1899. The characters are written in four columns giving the sounds and tones as heard in Hankou (Hankow). Ingle was an American missionary to China and first bishop of the Missionary District of Hankou. Provenance: Richard S. Björkdahl (1888-1980), Swedish missionary in China 1913-45.

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Book number: 120739

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, linguistic, hankow, missionary,

ISHIZUKA IOZO (Publ.):

The Scenery of Four Seasons. Osaka, I. Ishizuka, 1902.

. A complete set of twelve coloured lithograph cards (13 x 19 cm) with illustrations and curious sentences in English related to each month. Accompanied with a small booklet with the text in both English and Japanese. The original woodblock printed envelope (torn) attached. A charming set of teaching material which seems rare.

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Book number: 120988

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, illustrated, colour, plates, språk, language, teaching

JARRING, GUNNAR:

The Uzbek Dialect of Qilich (Russian Turkestan) with Texts and Glossary. Lund & Leipzig 1937.

. Pp. 56, (1). Original printed wrappers. With dedication by the author. Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002), renowned Swedish diplomat and linguist, compiled this work during a stay in Srinagar, Kashmir in 1935 with the help of Ahmad Jan, an Uzbek refugee living there at the time. (Lunds Universitets årsskrift. N.F. Avd. 1. Bd 33. Nr. 3.).

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Book number: 100474

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, russai, russian, kashmir, turkestan, language, linguist, langue, uzbek, uzbec,

JAUSSEN, FLORENTIN-ÉTIENNE:

Grammaire et dictionnaire de la langue Maorie. dialecte Tahitien. [Paris, St.Germain-en-Laye, imp. Toinon, 1861].

. 12mo. Pp. 56, 78, 1 blank leaf, pp. 92. Contemporary marbled paper boards, some paper loss, cloth spine, rubbed. No endpapers, pencil scribbles on paste downs. Exceedingly rare first edition published by the Catholic mission of Tahiti.Jaussen, French-born missionary who was the first bishop of Tahiti where he resided between 1848 and 1891. His Tahitian name was Tepano. In addition to this work, he published a catechism and a prayerbook in Tahitian. This is the first comprehensive linguistic work of Tahitian, comprising three parts; grammaire tahitien, dictionnaire tahitien-français and vocabulaire français-tahitien. At end pages 93-96 are missing but the vocabulary is complete. O'Reilly, Tahiti, 5765. Not in Zaunmüller or Vater.

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Book number: 121495

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, tahiti, maori, polynesia, language, langue, linguistic, grammar, dictionary, vocabulary, pacific

IGNATIUS Ë SANCTO JESUS [LEONELLI, CARLO]:

Grammatica linguae persicae. Rome, Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1661.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 60. One blank leaf at end not present. With large engraved vignette on title. Small old marginal repair, no loss. Some age browning to the paper. Later half calf (about 1790). First edition of this early grammar of the Persian language. Carlo Leonelli (1596-1667) was an Italian Carmelite missionary. For more than twenty years he lived and travelled in the Near East, Armenia and Persia. He returned to Rome in 1652 and published works about his experiences in the East. He wasn't a linguist or scholar but this grammar is still valuable as it's based on the language spoken at that time. It contains four pages with the Persian alphabet printed with the ta'liq type. This was a cursive form of the standard naskhi script, first published in print in 1633. "It might be one of the four Persian founts which Raimondi is said to have had available at the Medicean Press" (Smitskamp) See PO 196. Diba p. 76. Schwab 863. Vater p. 280. Zenker BO i, 268.

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Book number: 35162

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, persian, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

[LABROSSE, JOSEPH]. ANGELO (ANGELUS) Ë S. JOSEPH:

Gazophylacium linguae Persarum, triplici linguarum clavi italicae, latinae, gallicae, nec non specialibus praeceptis ejusdem linguae reseratum. Amsterdam, Ex Officina Janson-Waesberg, 1684.

. Folio. Pp. (xviii), 18, 473, (1), index (38). With engraved front or extra title, title printed in red and black. Some minor staining. Uncut copy in contemporary boards, red calf spine, worn. Preserved in a modern blue cloth box. The first proper Persian dictionary to be published. Only preceded by Ravius' Specimen lexici arabico-persico-latini (Lugd. Bat. 1645) and the Persian section by Golius in Castell's Lexicon heptaglotton (London 1669). Includes an introduction mainly based on De Dieu. The dictionary entries are in Italian followed by translations into Latin, French and Persian respectively. Labrosse composed this work during a stay in the Levant between 1664 and 1679. He tried to have his work published in Paris without success but a few years later he arranged the printing himself in Amsterdam. Labrosse bought the small Arabic types used in this work at the Elzevier sale in 1681. The large Arabic types found on the title page and eight times within the text were cut by Guillaume Le Bé in Paris 1599. These types were used only occasionally in Paris until the end of the 18th century and it seems that this is the only time they were used outside France (Smitskamp). Schwab 672. Smitskamp PO 345. Vater 279.

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Book number: 29037

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, persian, perse, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, east, eastern, middle east,

JOSEPH, ARCHDUKE KARL LUDWIG:

Zigeunergrammatik. Budapest 1902.

. Pp. (viii), 160, (1). Later half cloth, rubbed. Originally published in Hungarian in 1888. Translated by Dr Anton Herrman. Black, A Gypsy Bibl. (1971), 2240. BOUND WITH: GIORGJEVIC (GJORGJEVIC), TIHOMIR: Die Zigeuner in Serbien. Ethnologische Forschungen. Paart one. Budapest 1903. Pp. viii, 80. First edition. Black 1655.

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Book number: 31067

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, gypsy, gypsies, romany, language, langue, linguist, sprachwissenschaft

JUANMARTI, JACONTI / SMITH, CORNELIUS COLE (Transl.):

[PHILIPPINES] A Grammar of the Maguindanao Tongue according to the manner of speaking it in the interior and on the south coast of the island of Mindanao. Washington 1906.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 80. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, rear cover with some stains. Ownership signature (Corporal Kraemer) on front paste down. Staining to lower right corner throughout. First edition. This is a translation from the Spanish work (Manila 1892) by Jacinto Juanmarti, a Catalan priest of the Society of Jesus who served in the Philippines in the second half of the 19th century. He compiled the earliest works on the language by a European. Maguindanao is spoken by the Maguindanao, a Muslim ethnic group living mainly in the southern Philippines. Provenance: Corporal Henry Kaemerer, Company J, 2nd US Infantry, Zamboanga, Mind[ano], P.I. At end two-pages of pencil notes by Kraemer of his itinerary in the Philippines and his return journey to the US (Montana). He was discharged January 12, 1909. Two printed cards are loosely inserted, the 1908 Christmas menu and a list of the US Infantry company.

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Book number: 121434

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, philippines, asia, asiatic, asien, language, linguistic, grammar, langue, maguindanao,

JUDSON, ADONIRAM:

English and Burmese Dictionary. Rangoon, W.H. Sloan, American Mission Press, 1877.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 862 (including a first blank leaf). Contemporary full calf, worn. Flat spine with lettered title. Third, much enlarged edition. First published in 1849 with a reprint in 1866. This edition is enlarged with more than 500 additional definitions. Judson served as missionary in Burma for almost forty years. He was the first agent of the American Baptist Union in Burma founded in 1814. Cordier BI 342.

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Book number: 121273

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, asean, southeast asia, linguistics, languages, burma, myanmar, burmese, langue,

JULIEN, STANISLAS (Translator):

Si-Siang-Ki ou l'histoire de Pavillon d'occident. Comèdie en seize actes. Extrait de l'Atsume Gusa (1873-78). Genève, H. Georg, 1872-1880.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), iv, 333, (1). Uncut copy in publisher's printed wrappers. A nice and crisp copy of the publisher's single volume combining the original 5 issues of l'Atsume Gusa. Introduction by Francois Turrettini. Cordier BS 1759.

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Book number: 25059

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, chinese, language, langue, linguistic, literature

JUNCKER, CHRISTIAN:

Commentarius de vita, scriptisqve ac meritis illustris viri Iobi Ludolfi, ... adjectae sunt epistolae aliquot clarorum viorum, tum etiam specimen linguae Hottentotticae. Lpz & Frankfurt, J. F. Branius, 1710.

. Pp. xvi (incl. one blank leaf), 228, (20). With one engraved frontispiece and one folding genealogical table. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments and with title label, rubbed and top of spine chipped. (Copy of Ericsberg castle, Sweden). First edition. A biographical study of Hiob Ludolph, the renowned German linguist. Includes an appendix with a small Hottentot vocabulary. Scarce.

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Book number: 99605

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, exploration, ethiopia, hottentot, language, langue, linguist,

KARLGREN, BERNHARD:

Prononciation ancienne de caractères chinois figurant dans les transcriptions bouddhiques. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1919.

. Pp. 19. Disbound. Extract from "T'oung Pao", a Dutch journal on sinology (2e Série, vol. XIX, Mai 1918/19).

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Book number: 121065

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

KIRK, JOHN WILLIAM CARNEGIE:

A Grammar of the Somali Language. With examples in prose and verse and an account of the Yibir and Midgan dialects. Cambridge, the University Press, 1905.

. Pp. xvi, 216. Publisher's blue cloth. First edition. Somali is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the region known as the Horn of Africa, which lies between the French port of Djibouti, Cape Guardafin and the river Juba (formerly inhabited by the Gala people).

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Book number: 13212

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, somalia, somali, africa, african, language, lingustic, langue, afrika, afrique,

KLAPROTH, HEINRICH JULIUS VON:

Chrestomathie mandchou, ou recueil de textes mandchou destiné aux personnes qui veulent s'occuper de l'étude de cette langue. Paris, à l'imprimerie Royale, 1828.

. Pp. xii, 24, (2), 25-100, (2), 101-273, errata (1). Text in Manchu and French. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spine gilt with title label. First edition. Klaproth (1783-1835) was a German orientalist and traveller who devoted his life to the study of Asian languages. He invented a new method of classifying different languages and dialects. This work consists of Manchu translations of various famous Chinese texts including the popular Taoist tract from the 12th century Tai Shang Ying Pian which is attributed to the Confucian scholar Lao Tse. Followed by "Éloge de la ville de Moukden" by the emperor Ch'ien Lung which he wrote after his visit to Mukden (Shenyang) in 1743 to honour the tomb of his ancestors. Included is the "Peace Treaty between China and Russia" ratified in 1728, and a chapter about the Mongol empire. Manchu, one of the official languages of the Qing dynasty (1636-1911), is an endangered Tungusic language (Tungus) spoken in Northeast China. Cordier BS 2755. Lust 1074. Zenker BO ii, 6926.

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Book number: 100745

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, chinese, mandchu, tungus, china, chine, kina, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, exploration, travel,

KLAPROTH, HEINRICH JULIUS (Ed.):

Chrestomathie chinoise, publiée aux frais de la Société Asiatique. Paris, chez M. Cassin [etc.], 1833.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), Chinese title, pp. 186, (1), 15. Copy with wide margins, lithographed text within a black border. With full-page illustration on page 73. Later half sheepskin on marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, rubbed and some stains. Marbled endpapers. With neat pencil annotations (pp. 75-111). Old stain on half title and a few subsequent leaves and occasionally some light spots. First edition of this important elementary book of Chinese chrestomathy edited by the famous sinologist Klaproth. He was a German orientalist who participated in a Russian expedition to China in 1805 and later in an ethnographic and linguistic exploration of the Caucasus. From 1815 he lived in Paris where he served as professor of Asiatic languages and literature. Comprises following six works:Thaï chang Kan yng pian (Book of rewards and penalties); Wen tchhang Tsu thung ti kiun In tchy wen (Treatise on the reward of secret benefits); Tching la fung thou ki (Description of the country and usages of Tchin la or Cambodia); Hoeï lan ki (History of the chalk circle); Thsian tsu wen (Treatise in a thousand characters) and San tsu king (Book of phrases in three characters). A scarce work in the trade. Cordier BS 1683. Löwendahl 890. Zenker BO ii, 6713.

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Book number: 121255

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, linguistic, chrestomathie,