GEITLIN, GABRIEL (Editor):

Carminis epici Schahnameh. Fragmentum de Dario et Alexandro hexametris suethicics redditum. Dissertations. Four parts in two. Helsingfors, Ex typographica Frenckelliana, 1839.

. Pp. (ii), 16; (ii), 17-32; (ii), 37-48; (ii), 49-62. Uncut, sewn as issued. Some minor foxing. Geitlin (1804-71) was professor of Oriental languages at Helsinki University. Henriksson-Puupponen p. 28 (states wrongly six parts). Marklin 19.

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Book number: 34152

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persian, persia, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, islam, arabish, arabien, arabe, persien, persie, naher osten, asia, east, orient, ori

GEITLIN, GABRIEL:

Principia grammatices neo-persicae dissertatio academica. Four parts in thirteen. Helsingfors, ex officina typographica Frenckelliana, 1839-1846.

. Pp. 352, contents (8) + (iv). Comprises 20 different dissertations, 2 appendixes and "cujus particulam ultimam". Sewn as issued, uncut in thirteen parts. This is the original version of the first Persian grammar published in Finland. Printed with the nice Jena Arabic types. It appeared in bookform in 1845 (Helsingfors). Geitlin (1804-71) was professor of oriental languages at Helsinki University. See Schwab ii, 791 (1845 ed). See Zenker BO ii, 246.

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Book number: 31111

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, perisa, persian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, lingusitic,

GEITLIN, GABRIEL:

Principia grammatices neo-persicae cum metrorum doctrina et dialogis persicis. Helsingfors, Frenckelliana, 1845.

. Pp. (ii), 10, (8), 11-352. With one folding table. Partly some minor staining. Contemporary or slightly later red papercovered boards. First querie partly loose. Early Persian grammar, the first one to be published in Finland. It was originally published as dissertations (in 20 parts and 2 appendixes) defended by Geitlin's pupils at the Helsinki University between 1839 and 1845. See Marklin 20. It is printed with the nice Jena Arabic types. Schwab ii, 791. Zenker BO ii, 246.

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Book number: 34027

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, persian, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, arabia, arabic, arabica, le moyen-orient, nahe osten, islam, arabish, arabien, arabe, persien, persie, naher osten, asia, east, orient, ori

PASPATES ALEXANDROS GEORGIOUS:

Études sur les Tchinghianés ou Bohémiens de l'empire Ottoman. Constantinople, Antoine Koroméla, 1870.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xii, 652. Contemporary half cloth, rubbed, spine restored. Rare, first edition of an important work on the Roma people by a Greek medical doctor. The main part of the work is devoted to the Romany language including grammar, dictionary and wordlists. Zaunmüller p. 408: "Enthält gutes Wörterbuch über den sehr reinen Dialekt der türkischen Zigeuner". Black, Gypsy Bibl. (1914), 3084.

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Book number: 22017

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, gypsies, gypsy, romany, turkey, levant, ottoman, turkish, language, langue, linguistic, travel, exploration, ottoman, osmanska

GERICKE, J.F.C.:

Leesboek voor de Javanen, tezamengesteld uit stukken deds ouden en nieuwen verbonds. Haarlem, Bij. Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1841.

. Pp. iv + (90) lvs with text in Javanese. Titlepage and content printed in Dutch. Contemporary half calf on cloth covered boards, spine nicely decorated in gilt, rubbed. Published by the "Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap". The printer Enschedé & Zonen in Haarlem had "the best type foundry in Holland" (see Bigmore p. 203).

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Book number: 38012

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, indonesia, java, javanese, asia, asien, asiatic, asie, language, langue, lingustic, sprachwissenschaft

GIGANOV, IOSIF IVANOVIC & ATNOMETEV, NIYAT BAKA:

[TATAR]. [Russian title] Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskogo pis'ma (Primer of Tatar and Arabic). St. Petersburg, Imperatorskoi Akademi Nauk, 1802.

. 4to. Pp. 66. With text in Cyrillic and Arabic types. Later grey paper wrappers. Stamp on title page. Ownership signature (E. Henderson) on front pastedown. First edition of the first primer of the Tatar language, a Turkic language mainly spoken in modern Tatarstan (European Russia) and Siberia. (Not to be confused with Crimean Tatar or Siberian Tatar which are closely related but belong to different subgroups of the Kipchak languages). Rare.Compiled by Niyat Bka Atnometev a Siberian Tatar under the guidance of the priest Iosif Ivanovich Giganov (1764-1800?). Giganov was a teacher at the Tobolsk Seminar and is considered the founder of the modern Tatar dialectology school. He compiled the first Tatar grammar and Russian-Tatar dictionary, published in 1801 and 1804 respectively, posthumously.Provenance: We assume it has belonged to Ebenezer Henderson (1784-1858), Scottish minister and linguist who in 1822 was invited to assist the Russian Bible Society in translations of the Bible into different languages spoken in the Russian empire). Not in Loewenthal, The Turkic Languages of Central Asia.

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Book number: 121068

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, tatar, tatarstan, kazan, turkic language, language, langue, linguistic, russia, siberia, tartar, russia, russian,

GILBERT, FRIEDRICH ROBERT:

Das ABC der Chinaschrift. Berlin 1926 AND: GILBERT, FRIEDRICH ROBERT: Die Bilderschrift von China und Japan als internationale Weltschrift und ihre schnelle Erlerung nach der Mebiwegal-Methode. Berlin 1924.

. Pp. 92 with German text and Chinese characters + pp. 48. Original printer wrappers.

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Book number: 99850

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatick, japan, japanese

GON‚ALVES, JOAQUIM AFONSO:

... Arte China constante de alphabeto e grammatica comprehendendo modelos das differentes composicoens. Macao, impressa com licença regia no real Collegio de S. Jose, 1829.

. Small 4to. Pp. (ii), 127, (1), 128-503, 46, (2). With parallell text in Chinese and Portugese. Native contemporary half calf, spine rubbed with some loss of calf, expertly restored. Old ownership stamps on title. Some minor flaws; title page has one small loss at inner margin and about fifty pages affected at outer upper right corner by worming but no loss of text. Last two leaves dusty and chipped at edges of which one strengthened at lower margin (no loss). First edition. Father Gonçalves produced several books for Portugese students. "Arte China" provides a thorough and very practical introduction to many aspects of the Chinese language. The appendix is a comparative phonetic study of the pronunciation of Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. The work was printed at the Collegio de San Jose at Macao by Portugese priests on a press which had been lent to them in 1827 after the "Gazetta de Macao" had closed down. A charming copy of an important work at the time. Cordier BS 1663 & cf BS 1595-96. Lust 1012. Löwendahl 869. J.M. Braga, "The beginnings of Printing at Macao", Studia, 12 (Lisboa 1963) pp. 29-137.

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Book number: 99814

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chines, chinese, kina, language, langue, linguistic, macao, portugese, asia, asie, asiatic, asian, XPU

GRAMMAIRE

GRAMMAIRE pratique welche die Anwendung der französischen Sprachlehre in Exempeln zeigt. Dritte vermehrte auslage. Halle 1761.

. Pp. (ii), 310. Contemporary half calf, worn.

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Book number: 27046

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europe, europa, latin, grammar, linguistics, languages, linguistique, language, langue, sprachen, sprache, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft

GRELLMANN, HEINRICH MORITZ GOTTLIEB:

Histoire des Bohémiens, ou tableau des moeurs, usages et coutumes de ce peuple nomade; suivi des recherches historiques sur leur origine, leur langage et leur première apparition en Europe. Paris, Chaumerot, 1810.

. Pp. (iv), 354. Contemporary calf, flat spine gilt in compartments and with title label, rubbed and hinges weak. First French edition of one of the earliest scholary works on Gypsies, originally published in German (Dessau & Leipzig 1783). A comprehensive and highly esteemed work on Gypsy life and customs, especially devoted to their language. Grellmann deduced the Indian origin of the Gypsies because of the many similiarities between gypsy language and Sanskrit and Hindi. This has later been confirmed by other scholars. Includes a trilingual glossary of Romany, Hindi and French. Black, Gypsy (1914), 1719. Caillet 4766.

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Book number: 39023

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, gypsy, gypsies, gipsy, romany, romi, travel, exploration, language, langue, linguistic,

GRIERSON, GEORGE ABRAHAM:

An Introduction to the Maithil’ Language of North Bihâr Containing Grammar, Chrestomathy & Vocabulary. Parts I-II. Two volumes. Calcutta, Asiatic Society, 1881-2.

. Pp. (ii), viii, 114, two appendices, errata lvs. 3; pp. (iv), 267. Modern boards. First edition of the first grammar and vocabulary of the Maithili language, a distinct Indo-Aryan language spoken by the inhabitants of Bihar in Eastern India and the Tarai districts of Nepal. Prior to Grierson's work Maithili was thought to be simply a corrupt form of Hindi. Grierson was an Irish-born linguist who served for many years in British India. He published numerous studies in the journals of learned associations and became Superintendent of the monumental Linguistic survey of India founded in 1894. These two parts were published as extra numbers to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, parts one and two. (1880 and 1882). Not in Vater.

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Book number: 120926

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

GRUBE, WILHELM:

Goldisch-deutsches Wörterverzeichniss mit vergleichender Berücksichtung der übrigen tungusischen Dialekte. St. Petersburg, der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1900.

. Folio. Pp. x, 147. With the author's signature and stamp on title page. Modern half calf on marbled boards. Original printed wrappers with bound. Bookplate (Staffan Rosén, professor of Korean, Stockholm). Rare work devoted to the Nanai language, the southern branch of the Manchu-Tungusic language group. Each entry has reference to different sources, for example works by Klaproth, Castrén, Czekanowski, Maximowicz, Schrenck, etc. Manchu-Tungusic (sometimes Tungus) is an endangered language family comprising about twenty languages spoken in Siberia and northern China. Wilhelm Grube, German sinologist and ethnographer. Zaunmüller p. 276 (Nanajisch). (Included in Leopold von Schrenck's Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande. Anhang II zum III Bande zweite lieferung. Linguistische Ergebnisse. II).

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Book number: 121378

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, tungusic, tungus, goldisch, nanajisch, nanai, amur, manchu-tungus, chinese, china, kina, chine, siberia, russia, language, linguistic, langue, sprachwissenschaft,

GRUBE, WILHELM:

Die Sprachgeschichtliche Stellung des Chinesischen. Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1881. TOGETHER WITH: Die Chinesische Philosophie. Leipzig 1909. AND: Die religion der alten Chinesen. (Tübingen 1911)

. Pp. 20. Cordier BS 1680. Included at end: "Beiträge zur Chinesischen Grammatik: Die Sprache des Liet-tsï. Von W. Grube. Sonderabdruck aus den Berichten der Köngl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. 1889". Pp. 153-184. TOGETHER WITH: Die Chinesische Philosophie. Leipzig 1909. ("Die Kultur der Gegenwart. I."). Pp. 78-98, (1). AND: Die religion der alten Chinesen. (Tübingen 1911) Pp. 69. Bound uniformely in yellow cloth lettered in black.

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Book number: 32140

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, chinese, , asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, far east, east asia, china, chine, kina, language, langue, sprachen, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, ferne osten, extreme ori

GUYARD, STANISLAS:

Théorie nouvelle de la métrique arabe, précédée e considérations générales sur le rhythme naturel du langage. Extrait du journal asiatique. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1877.

. Pp. (vi), 350, 20. Contemporary marbled boards, red calf spine ruled in gilt and with title printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed.

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Book number: 28110

Catalogue: Near East

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

HAMILTON, ROBERT-CLIFTON:

An Outline Grammar of the Dafla Language as Spoken by the Tribes immediately South of the Apa Tanang Country. Shillong, The Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1900.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), 6, 127, (1). Small damage to upper right corner in parts (no loss). Original blue printed boards, cloth spine. Presentation copy to Ralph Lilley Turner (British Orientalist and linguist). First edition of a grammar of the Dafla or Nishi language. This is a Tibetan-Burman language spoken by groups in Assam on the North-East frontier of British India. The author describes the Eastern rather than the Western dialect of the Dafla language. A limited edition of 300 copies.

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Book number: 120642

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india,inde, indian, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, tibet, burma, burman, tibetan, ibet