KLECZKOWSKI, MICHEL-ALEXANDRE LE COMTE:

Cours graduel et complet de chinois parlé etécrit. Parts i-ii in Volume one. (All publ.). Phrases de la langue parlée. Tirées del'Arte China du P. Goncalves. Paris 1876.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (viii), lxxii, part I: Partie francais pp.(ii),102; part II: Partie chinois (iv), double pages 1-115 + p.116. Many tables with Chinese characters printed in red and black. Contemporary red morocco, spine with five raised bands and title printed in gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e. Copy of Charles Schefer with his initials in gilt on upper cover. With dedication to Schefer by the author. Count Kleczkowski, former French charge d'affaires in Beijing and later professor of Chinese at the School of Oriental languages in Paris. The manual is divided into two parts, of which the first is a presentation of the Chinese language (writing, pronunciation, literature) in French. The second part comprises a Chinese - French vocabulary mainly based on Gonçalves Arte China (1829), including a word for word translation as well as made up sentences. Cordier BS 1664.Provenance: Charles Henri Auguste Schefer (1820-98), French orientalist and diplomat, who in 1857 was appointed professor of Persian at Ecole des languages Orientales.

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Book number: 28126

Catalogue: East Asia

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

KNÖS, GUSTAF (Praeses):

Carmen Tantarani, arabice et suethice. Part 1 (all publ.). Upsala, Stenhammar & Palmblad, 1813.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 8. Disbound. Marklin p. 119, no. 56.

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Book number: 120716

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, arabic, arabia, laTIN, swedish, sweden, language, linguistic, langue,

KNÖS, GUSTAF (Praeses):

Dialogus inter Solonem et Crosesum Herodot. Lib. I. Cap. 30-32. Upsala, Stenhammar & Palmblad, 1813.

. 4to. Pp. 12. Disbound. Marklin p. 119, no. 54.

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Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, greek, greece, grekiska, LATIN, language, langue, linguistic, språk

KNÖS, GUSTAF (Praeses):

Dissertatio de usu articuli apud graecos. Parts i-v (all). Upsala, Stenhammar & Palmblad, 1813.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 8; (ii), 9-16; (iv), 17-22; (iv), 23-28; (ii), 29-34. Marklin p. 119, nos 57-62.

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KNÖS, GUSTAF (KNOES, GUSTAF, KNOS, GUSTAF)(Editor and translator):

Historia decem vezirorum et filii regis Azad Bacht ex arabico in latinum coversa. Parts 1-2. Upsala, Typis Regi Academae Officina, 1815. + DISSERTATIONS Parts 3-18. Upsaliae, Stenhammar et Palmblad and Zeipel & Palmblad, 1815.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 140; (ii), 24, 16; (iv), 17-24; (ii), 25-32; (ii), 33-40; (iv), 41-48; (ii), 49-56; (ii), 57-64; (ii), 65-72; (iv), 73-80; (ii), 81-88; (ii), 89-96; (ii), 97-104; (ii), 105-112; (ii), 113-120; (vi), 121-126; (ii), 127-134; (ii), 135-140. Disbound in two parts. This work is a translation and commentary to his text edition of 1807. The Arabic version was published in 1807. See item 98. Parts 1-2 were also published in the form of dissertations in 1814. Marklin 119-120. According to Marklin it is complete in 18 parts.

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Book number: 34145

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, islam, arabish, arabien, a

KNÖS, GUSTAF (KNOES, GUSTAF, KNOS, GUSTAF)(Editor and translator):

Historia Bahazadii filii regis ex arabico in altinum conversa. Dissertation. Upsalae, Zeipel & Palmblad, 1817.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 10. Old inscription on title page. Disbound. A translation into Latin. All published. Marklin 120.

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Book number: 34148

Catalogue: Near East

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KNÖS, GUSTAF (Ed.):

Kitab Qissat al-`asr wuzara wa-ma gara lahum ma`a ibn al-Malik Azad Baht. [Arabic transcription]. Historia decem vezirorum et filii Regis Azad Bacht, insertis undecim aliis narrationibus. In usum tironum ad codicem manu scriptum Cahirensem. Göttingen, typis Henrici Dieterich, 1807.

. Pp. (x) with title, preface, content in Latin + Arabic text pp. (ii),114, (2) errata. Contemporary red paper covered boards, covers and spine ruled in gilt, title lettered in gilt on spine, extremities rubbed, corners chipped. Attractive blue marbled endpapers. Pretty copy from Säbylund. First Arabic edition of the famous Bakhtiyar-namah ("The history of the ten Viziers), a series of Persian tales which sometimes has been added as a supplement to the Arabian Nights. This translation is based on a manuscript discovered in Cairo. A Latin translation with comments (in dissertation form) was published in 1814-15. Gustaf Knös was a Swedish-born theolog and orientalist who studied in Göttingen and later in Paris under Silvestre de Sacy. Scarce. Kaiser ii, p.371. Schnurrer 419.Forum catalogue nov 14:93. K N Ö S , Gustav (ed.). [Kitab Qissat al-`asr wuzara wa-ma gara lahum ma`a ibn al-Malik Azad Baht]. Historia decem vezirorum et filii Regis Azad Bacht insertis undecim aliis narrationibus.Göttingen, Heinrich Dieterich, 1807. 8o. Contemporary boards covered with green paper. soldFirst Arabic edition of a series of Persian tales known as Bakhtiyar-namah, a frame story deriving partly from the ancient Sanskrit Panchatantra (known in Arabic as Bidpai) and often added as a supplement to the Arabian nights. The present edition is based on an Arabic manuscript discovered in Cairo:a Latin translation with annotations followed (in dissertation form) in 1814. It is an elegant little book, well-printed on excellent laid paper with a very slight greenish cast.With a tiny corner of the first 3 leaves (counting from the Arabic side)and free endleaf apparently nibbled by mice, not approaching the text, but otherwise in fine condition. The spine is faded and the paper covering the boards shows a few tiny defects, but the binding is still very good. Lovely and elegant first Arabic edition of a famous set of Persian tales.Richard Burton, tr., Arabian nights (1884-1886), 10, item 174.3 (p. 441); Schnurrer 419.OMLIBRIS EURO 3000 (!)

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Book number: 121101

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, arabia, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

KNÖS, GUSTAF (Praeses):

Pindai pythiorum ode sexta svethice tradita. Upsala, Stenhammar & Palmblad, 1817.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 8. Disbound. Marklin p. 118, no. 52.

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Book number: 120719

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, language, linguistic, philologic, språk, latin,

KNÖS, GUSTAF (Praeses):

Vita demosthenis. Prt 1 (all publ.). Upsala, Stenhammar & Palmblad, 1813.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 8. Disbound. Marklin p. 119, no. 55.

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Book number: 120717

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, greek, greece, latin,

KOELLE, SIGISMUND WILHELM:

African Native Literature, or Proverbs, Tales, Fables, & Historical Fragments in the Kanuri or Bornu Language, ... and a Kanuri-English Vocabulary. London, Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, 1854.

. Pp. xiv, errata (ii), 434. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth, title lettered on spine, small marks on spine, small splits to hinges. First edition. Kölle (1820-1902) was a German missionary and pioneer scholar of African languages. His major work "Polyglotta Africana" (1854) initiated serious study of a large range of African languages by European scholars. Zaunmüller p. 219.

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Book number: 100465

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, afrika, africa, afrique, african, languages, langue, linguistic, nigeria, niger, chad, cameroon, kameron, libya, kanuri, bornu

KORÖSI, SçNDOR (ALEXANDER) CSOMA DE:

A Grammar of the Tibetan Language in English. Prepared, under the patronage of the government and the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta, Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1834.

. 4to. Pp. xii, 204, one blank, pp. 40 with lithographed syllabic plates. The plates are numbered 1-40 but no. 15 is blank, as issued! (However we have found a library copy which has no.15 containing characters). Late 19th century half calf, spine ruled in black and with title lettered in gilt, rubbed. Front joint weakened. Marbled endpapers. Private exlibris label on front paste down (Dr. Wolfgang E. Scharlipp). Traces of front paper wrapper on inner margin of half title. Some minor browning.First edition of the first Tibetan grammar in English. Csoma de Korös (or Alexander Csoma of Koros) was a Hungarian orientalist who was known to be literate in more than ten languages. Considered the founder of Tibetology, he was one of the first Europeans to learn Tibetan. In 1819 he travelled to the East to find the old Hungarian homeland somewhere in Central Asia. But during the journey he received a book on Tibet and decided to stay in Leh and learn Tibetan. During his three trips to Tibet, he perfected the language in various monasteries with the help of local monks. He died in Darjeeling while attempting a journey to Lhasa in 1842 and a memorial was erected in his honour by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Rare. Cordier BS 2930. Yakushi (1984) C160. Vater p. 400. Not in Löwendahl.

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Book number: 121453

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, tibet, tibetan, china, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, lingustic, grammar,

KOTZ, ERNST / SACHAU, EDUARD (Editor):

Grammatik des Chasu in Deutsch-Ostafrika (Pare-Gebrige). Archiv für das Studium deutscher Kolonialsprachen. Band x. Herausgegeben von dem Direktor des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen. Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1909.

. Pp. viii, 79. Contemporary half cloth, original printed front wrapper pasted on upper cover, slightly rubbed. Bookplate. Annotations by a scholar throughout the text. Ernst Kotz was a missionary in East Africa. First edition. Scarce. Not in Vater.

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Book number: 29083

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, east africa, africa, african, language, langue, linguistic, afrique, afrika

LANDBERG, CARLO:

Dr. K. U. Nylander's specimenschrift Daláil el-Nubuwwa kritisch beleuchtet von Dr. C. Graf von Landberg. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1892.

. Pp. 49. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, spine chipped. Count Carlo Landberg studied Arabic for the famous Arabist H.L. Fleischer in Leipzig.

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Book number: 34132

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, islam, arabish, arabien, a

LANGLéS, LOUIS-MATHIEU:

Alphabet mantchou, rédigé d'après le syllabaire et le dictionnaire universel de cette langue. Troisème édition, augmentée d'une notice sur l'origine, l'histoire et les travaux littéraires des mantchoux actuellement maîtres de la Chine. Paris, de l'Imprimerie impériale, 1807.

. Pp. xvi, 208. With one large folding engraved plate (with small tear at fold) and one folding table "Alphabet mantchou". Partly with some browning and spotting to the text. Some underlining. Contemporary paper covered boards, rubbed along edges and hinges. The third enlarged edition, first published in 1787 (only comprising 23 pages). The second edition was included in Amiot's "Dictionnaire tartare-mantchou" 1789-90 edited by Langlès. This is the first separate edition. Cordier BS 2753. Lust 1076. Löwendahl 736. Zenker BO ii, 6921.

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Book number: 100505

Catalogue: East Asia

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

LANGUEN, JACQUES:

Petit manuel russe a l'usage des français. Ouvrage destiné aux voyageurs à faciliter l'intelligence de la langue russe; dans lequel les mots russes sont réprésentés avec leur prononciation figurée en caractères français et prosodiée. St. Pétersbourg, De l'imprimerie de la Chancellerie privée du Ministère de la Police, 1819.

. Pp. (iv), 74. Original orange printed wrappers. Some minor wear to spine. First edition as thus, reprinted several times. A scarce manual, published by the police, to learn the Russian language including a short grammar, syntax, dialogues and an extensive vocabulary. Contains comparative tables with coins, weights and measures in Russian and French. A similar manual was published in 1811 with a different title. Cat. Russica L269.

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Book number: 100421

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, russe, russian, language, langue, linguistic, dictionary, french, police,