MAUNSELL, ROBERT & OTHERS (transl.):

[A collection of sermons translated into Ma›ri]. Printed at Purewa (Aukland), Church Mission Press mid 1840s and at St. John's College around 1850.

. The collection of a total of eleven sermons is bound together in near contemporary cloth. From the library of Arthur Thomas Pycroft (1875-1911), naturalist and collector from New Zealand. With handwritten translations and annotations in English on title pages. At the beginning, there is a handwritten table of contents bound in.MAUNSELL, ROBERT (Transl.): [Eight Ma›ri sermons] Ko te whakapono pp. 7 + Ko nga mahi hou pp. 7 + Ko te hapa tapu pp. 8 + He mahi aha ta nga minita pp.8 + ko te inoi a te tahae pp. 7 + Ko te tino Tohunga Nui pp. 9 + Ko te manawanui o hopa pp. 7 + Ko te iriiri tapu pp. 8. Printed at Purewa, Church Mission Press, (1846-7). Robert Maunsell, Irish-born missionary who lived and served in New Zealand for almost sixty years. He was an authority on Ma›ri language and culture. Together with William Williams he made translations of the Bible. Williams 145. BOUND WITH: MAUNSELL, ROBERT (Transl.): He Patai (Questions on the New Testament). In total 109 questions. (Purewa 1844 or 1845) Pp. 8. Williams 110.AND: WILBERFORCE, SAMUEL: Te Motu Kohatu ("The Rocky Island"). No te Kareti. I taia tenei i te Pereli a te Pihopa. Printed at the Bishops Press (St John's College, Purewa) 1850. Pp. 26 (i.e.25). A religious story for children translated by Elizabeth Colenso. She was born at the Church Mission Society station in 1821 and served as missionary, teacher, and Bible translator in New Zealand. Williams 202.AND: FARQUHAR, BARBARA H. & MARTIN, MARY ANN (Transl.): Ko e tahi Hua o te Whakapono ("Some fruits of the faith"). No te Kareti. I taia tenei ki te Perehi a te Pihopa. (Purewa, St John's College) 1852. Pp. 24. Abridged of Farquhar's "Pearl of Days" translated into Ma›ri, probably by Mary Ann Martin. She was a social worker, writer and teacher at St John's College and St Stephen's School for Native Girls. Married to William Martin, Chief Justice in New Zealand. Williams 237.

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Book number: 121335

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, new zealand, maori, language, linguistic, langue, sermons, religious,

MICHAELIS, JOHANN HEINRICH:

Erleichterte chaldäische Grammatica, oder richtige Anführung zur chaldäischen Sprache: Auf Begehren für die Anfänger Teutsch herausgegeben. Editio octava. No place or date. [Halle 1745].

. Pp. 32. With one folding table (pp. 4), torn at fold. Disbound.

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Book number: 34071

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, grammar, syrien, syrie, chaldaish,syria, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, near east, middle east, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orien

MICHAELIS, JOHAN DAVID:

Grammatica syriaca. Halae 1784.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 299. With one folding table. Old ownership signatures on title and front endpapere. Contemporary half calf, extremities rubbed, spine ends cracked with small loss. Michaelis, a German theolog and orientalist at Halle. ADB xxi, 689: "Seines specielles Wissensgebiet war zunächst das der orientalischen ... semitischen Dialekten seine chaldäischen, syrischen, arabischen Grammatiken ...". Partly some browning. With some annotations in pencil. Ebert ii, 118. Zenker BO ii, 1569.

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Book number: 12143

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, syriac, syria, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

MICHAELIS, JOHANN DAVID:

Grammatica syriaca. Halae, impensis Orphanotrophei, 1784.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 299. With one folding engraved table. Last leaf pasted on endpaper. Contemporary paper covered boards, rubbed. ADB xxi, 689: "Seines specielles Wissensgebiet war zunächst das der orientalischen .. semitischen Dialekten seine chaldäischen, syrischen, arabischen Grammatiken ... ". Ebert ii, 118. De Sacy 2696. Zenker BOii, 1569.

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Book number: 34024

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, syrien, syrie, syriac, syria, 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 ost

MIGEOD, FREDERICK WILLIAM HUGH:

A Grammar of the Hausa Language. London 1914.

. Pp. xii, 228, (2). Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Ex. library copy. With the author's signature on title page. First and only edition. "This grammar is primarily for students who have already acquired some knowledge of the Hausa language" (Preface).

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Book number: 99428

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, nigeria, hausa, haoussa, language, linguistic, langue, africa, african, afrique, afrika, west africa

MUSA (MOESA) MUHAMAD (Transl.):

"Dongéng-dongéng pieunteungeun" (Spiegel der Jeugd in Sundanese). Batavia, Ter Lands-drukkerij, 1867.

. Pp. (ii), 158. Text in Javanese script. Original printed wrappers. Old ink inscriptions on front cover. Marginal loss to cover and the first part of the book with loss, (no text loss), probably by silverfish. First edition, reissued many times. A schoolbook containing 160 lessons of the popular terror story "Spiegel der Jeugd van de Nederlandse oorlogen" (Mirror for the young of the Dutch wars). Housed in a modern cloth folder.

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Book number: 121318

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, sundanese, indonesia, javanese, asia, asie, asien ,asiatic, schoolbook, language, linguistic, langue,

MÜLLER, MAX:

Sanskrit-Grammatik in devanágari und lateinischen Buchstaben. Auf dem Englischen übersetzt. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1868.

. Pp. xxi, (ii), 441, (1). With text in Sanskrit (Devanagari characters) and German. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with red title label, extremities lightly rubbed. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. Translated from the original English edition (London 1866) by F. Kielhorn adn G. Oppert. Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), renowned German philologist who studied Sanskrit under Bopp. He lived and worked at Oxford for many years.

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Book number: 100303

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asie, asien, sanskrit, sanscrit, devanagri, language, langue, linguistic

MÜLLER, FRIEDRICH:

Die Sprachen der Wollhaarigen Rassen. Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1877.

. Pp. (viii), 262, (2). Half cloth. Stamps. Comprises: 1. Sprachen der Hottentoten-Rasse; 2. der Papua-Rasse; 3. der Neger-Rasse (Dinka, Bari, Wolof, Bullom, Temne, Akra, Efik, Maude, Logone, Maba, Hause, etc.); and 4. der Kafir-Rasse (Bantu). Included in "Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft".

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Book number: 99769

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrique, afrika, african, language, langue, linguistic, hottentott, bantu, hausa, papa new guinea,

MYRBERG, ERIC & KJERSEEN, ELIAS:

Momenta Quaedam poëseos hebraeae et arabicae. Part I (of II). Upsaliae. Joh. Fr. Edman, 1798.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 12. With printed dedication to Eric Waller. Contemporary boards, rubbed. Copy of Eric Waller (1732-1811), a Swedish bishop and writer. With his bookplate on front paste down. The first part only. Scarce.

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Book number: 100956

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, hebrew, arabic, arabia, arabien, language, lingusitic, langue, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, literature, poetry, poesi,

NIERSIS CLAJENSIS [NERSES], SANCTI:

Preces sancti armeniorum patriarchae viginti quatuor linguis editae. Venetiis, In Insula S. Lazari, 1837.

. 12mo. Pp. (vi), 434 + add. (ii), 43. With one engraved front portrait. Some light staining towards the end. Contemporary half green morocco, decorated in gilt, g.e., extremities rubbed. A type specimen book containing the prayers of Nerses in 25 different languages. Includes scripts of Armenian, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Syriac, Chinese and Aethiopian. First published in 1818, reprinted many times. Printed at the Armenian monastery on the island of S. Lazarus outside Venice. Wetzer ix, 162.

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Book number: 14383

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, armenia, armenian, turkey, turkish, syriac, syria, chinese, china, kina, chine, ethiopia, ethiopian, language, langue, linguistic

[BIBLIA HEBRAICA]. NISSEL, JOHAN GEORG:

Sacra Biblia Hebraea, ex optimis editionibus diligenter expressa, & formá, literis versuumque distinctione commendata. Lugd. Bat., Typis Nisselianis, 1662.

. With engraved extra Hebrew title page (narrowly cut and with a tear). Lvs. (iv), (422) + one blank leaf. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, spine ends chipped with small loss at foot, hinges weak and lower joint partly cracked. Occasionally some minor staining. Some underlinings and marginal annotations. Old ownership signatures and annotations on endpapers. The last leaf of the preliminaries contains a laudatory poem in Arabic with Latin translation by Petraeus. Edited by Allard Uchtmanns, who also wrote the preface. Based on Stephanus' Bible with reference to the editions of Bomberg and Menasseh Ben Israel. Darlow & Moule 5133. Smitskamp PO 343.

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Book number: 35112

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, hebrew, hoily land, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, linguistic, langue, hebreau, bible, biblia,

NOBLE, JAMES:

An Arabic Vocabulary and Index for Richardson's Arabic Grammar; in which the words are explained according to the parts of speech. And the derivatives are traced to their originals in the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac languages. Edinburgh, Printed by C. Stewart, at the University Press, 1820.

. 4to. Pp. xviii, 118. With one engraved plate "Table of Oriental Alphabets". Uncut copy in contemporary boards, cloth spine, recased, boards stained and worn. Some stains at the beginning and end of the text. First edition of a scarce work. The vocabulary comprises 1620 Arabic words with translations into English, Hebrew, Chaldee (Aramaic) and Syriac. Includes two indexes. Bibl. De Sacy II, 2835. Zenker BO i, 58. A hand-written letter on two pages addressed to A.W. Stewart (Professor of chemistry at Belfast) loosely inserted. Written by Robert Miller (?), dated October 1923. He wants a copy of the Oriental table but then gives the book to Stewart.

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Book number: 120543

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, vocabulary, dictionary, hebrew, syriac, aramaic, chaldee, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

NOèL, FRANCOIS JOSEPH MICHEL:

Dictionnaire de la fable, ou mythologie grecque, latine, egyptienne, celtique, persanne, syriaque, indienne, chinoise, scandinave, africaine, américaine, iconologique, etc. Two volumes. Paris, Le Normant, 1801.

. Pp. (iv), xx, 477, (1), supplément 71; (iv), 765, errata (2). Contemporary calf, covers ruled with gilt floral dentelles, spines decorated in compartments and with title labels. Corners slightly rubbed, otherwise a nice copy. First edition. Noël was Professor of 'Belles-Lettres' at the University of Paris and member of the Academy of Lyon. Brunet iv, 88 (fourth edition 1823).

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Book number: 31022

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, , linguistics, languages, first edition, linguistique, language, langue, sprachen, sprache, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / BRUHN, AND. (Resp.):

De conformatione linguae graecae dissertatio. Lund, Berlingianis, 1804.

. 4to. Pp. 13. Disbound. Marklin 104.

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Book number: 120432

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greece, greek, grekiska, language, langue, linguistic,

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / ÖSTERHOLM, ERIC (Resp.):

Dissertatio Academica de agricultura orientali. Lund, Berlingianis, 1790.

. 4to. Pp. 18. Disbound. Marklin 51.

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Book number: 120326

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, agriculture, oriental, near east, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, arabic, syriac, maronite,