ERASMUS Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami

Colloquia Familiaria, Notis Perpetuis Ad Modum Io. Minellii Inlustrata Atque Explicata. Operà M. Io. Pavli Gumprechti, Accedunt Scriverii Coronis Apologetica Pro Colloquiis Erasmi; Eiusdem Dissertatio de Colloquiorum Vtilitate; Laus Moriae, Vita, Epitaphium, Testamentum, Index Lucubrationum, & Elogia Erasmi. Item Indices Copiosiores Cum Privelegio Regis Polon & Elect. Sax.

Lipsiae Leipzig, Ex Officina Weidmanniana Weidmann, 1736. 8vo. original mottled-calf boards, gilt device stamped to both. Sympathetically re-backed in stained leather, raised bands, device in blind to compartments, lettered and ruled gilt. Marbled endpapers neatly partially renewed. Engraved portrait frontis. title in red and black, a1-d8+1292[xx]pp, engraved head and tail-pieces. Early owner's name inside also 1954, A Seligmann's name. Loosely enclosed note. Very tight, crisp and clean. A very good copy. Note and 1954 newspaper cutting refer to Gottlob Friedrich Seligmann, Lutheran theologian and physicist, on p. 1168.

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N° du livre: 38004

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Featured|Philosophy|Antiquarian|Classics

FARMAR, Austin

Place-Name Synonyms Classified: Author's Presentation Copy Inscribed Thus in Ink to Front Free Endpaper.

London, David Nutt, 1904. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered gilt, Celtic family symbol blind stamped to upper board. Generally in very good condition, clean, bright and tight. A few pages a little untidily opened at the time, corners and spine ends a little bumped but a very nice copy nevertheless. "The work is based on Miss Blackie's 'Etymological Geography'.. in whose book the place-names will be found arranged under the roots alphabetically.." Preface - written at Cliftonville House, Margate in 1904.

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N° du livre: 38135

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Featured|Etymology|Dictionary|Britain|Place-Names

FARRAR, Rev. Frederic W Farrar. (Association Bulstrode)

Families of Speech: Four Lectures Delivered Before the Royal Institution of Great Britain in March 1869. Published by Request. First Edition.

London, Longman's, Green, and Co, 1870. In very good condition, cloth bright, crisp inside, possibly unused. Small 8vo. original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, boards ruled in blind. 'Kings College London' in gilt to spine tail. Other library marks negligible. 3 folding philological maps, table, index. Later republished with 'Chapters on Language' as 'Language and Languages'. Used; Very Good The title page is blind-stamped "Bulstrode, Gerrards Cross, Bucks". It also appears to have been, at a later date, part of the Walford collection at Kings College, London. Farrar was a classics scholar and a comparative philologist, who applied Charles Darwin's ideas of branching descent to the relationships between languages, engaging in a protracted debate with the anti-Darwinian linguist Max Müller. Hardback.

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N° du livre: 37013

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Linguistics|Philology|Featured|Comparative Philology

FENNING, Daniel.

Wogan's Improved Universal Spelling Book; or a New and Easy Guide to the English Language. Or, a New and Easy Guide to the English Language: Containing 1. Tables of Useful Words. 2. An Easy and Improved Guide to English Grammar, 3. Tables of the Principal Parts of Speech, 4. A Variety of Select Alphabetical...

London, Dublin and Derby, Thomas Richardson. Printed by Richardson and Son, Derby, 1846. Derby edition. Not dated new edition. May be 1846 (see COPAC). Wogan was a Dublin publisher at the time, Richardson published in London and Derby. Original publisher's speckled paper-covered boards, 16mo.(18x11cm) 144pp. woodcut frontis. 10 other woodcuts, alphabet and other tables (reproduced from early but not first edition). Neat old repair to spine and inner joint now splitting. Internally scarcely used, bright and clean. Used; Good Best known of Fenning's prolific works. This edition contains: the spelling book, fables and stories, part II word lists arranged by syllable length, part III the grammar followed by natural history, geography, weights and measures, foreign words and prayers. Frontis. illustration depicts three scenes from the18th century school day, 8 moral fables illustrated with woodcuts, 2 woodcuts (lion and elephant) illustrating natural history. Certainly not for the faint hearted: one of the so-described 'natural entertaining' stories is illustrated by a woodcut of a naked child who has drowned with his naked friend being beaten by a parent! . Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 33492

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: English|Antiquarian|Children's|Spelling|Primer|Antiquarian|English|Featured

FRENCH for Russians

Le Livre de L'Enfance. (French Primer for Russian Children)

n.p. N.p, n.p. No date, no publisher. Lacking publishing details. Pp. v- xviii+140. Original quarter calf, marbled boards. Occasional juvenilia throughout, usual wear, lacks preliminaries, upper board loose but still attached. Collectable; Good Russian children's primer for learning French, occasional in-text woodcuts. Probably early nineteenth century. An interesting and attractive item. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 27345

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Antiquarian|Grammar|Primer|French|Russian

GALIGNANI. (MONTUCCI, SANESE)

Galignani's Grammar and Exercises, in Twenty-Four Lectures on the Italian Language; in Which the Principles, Harmony, and Beauties of That Language Are, by an Original Method, Simplified and Adapted to the Meanest Capacity and the Scholar Enabled to Attain with Ease and Facility a Competent Knowledge of the Language without the Help of Any Master. Fourth Edition. Enlarged and Improved by Antonio Montucci. Sanese.

London, Boosey and Sons, 1823. Original publisher's boards, cloth spine, xxiv+342pp. Upper board detached but present, fore-edges a little age soiled. Contemporary neat annotation and modern but very neat inscription to f.e.p. A good, clean tight copy. Giovanni Galignani 1757-1821, was an Italian newspaper publisher who lived both in London and Paris. He started Galignani's Messenger, a paper mentioned in Turgenev and by other contemporary authors. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 21656

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Grammar|Italian|Antiquarian|Featured|Romance Language

GALLOWAY, George (1755 - ? ).

The Admirable Crichton, a Tragedy; in Five Acts. To Which Are Added, Songs, and Other Pieces in Verse. Bound with: The Tears of Poland. Second Edition. To Which Are Added, Songs on Various Subjects, Scots and English; with Other Poetical Pieces.

Edinburgh, Printed by John Taylor.. and printed for the author, and sold at his house, Millar's Land, Crosscauseway;, 1802, 1795. 8vo. later C19th half-calf, marbled boards, spine ruled and decorated in compartments. Engraved frontis. [iv]+78+38+4pp. Leather a little scuffed at edges, and at spine, early juvenilia to frontis. verso, otherwise tight and clean. No loss. Two plays bound together with additional poems. The first play honours James Crichton the Scottish 16th C. polymath, while the second play relates to the Second Partition of Poland (1793). Ex libris bookplate (Fortis in Arduis) of James Wyllie Guild (1826-1894), Scottish public accountant and antiquarian. Over 3000 items from his library and antiquarian collections were sold at auction in April 1888.

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N° du livre: 38065

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Featured|Literature|English|Antiquarian|Poland

GESENIUS, Wilhelm (Guil.)

Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta Quotquot Supersunt Edita Et Inedita Ad Autographorum Optimorumque Exemplorum Fidem Edidit Additisque de Scriptura Et Lingua Phoenicum Commentariis Three Parts in One Volume.

Leipzig, Vogel, 1837. Quarto, contemporary paper-covered publisher's boards, xxviii+481pp. This copy published without the plates. All in-text examples of script present. Used; Very Good First edition of Gesenius' celebrated work on Phoenician inscriptions. Illustravit Guil. Gesenius. Pars Prima. Duos Priores de Litteris et Inscriptionibus Phoeniciis Libros Continens. Pars secunda duos posteriores de numis et de lingua phoenicum libros continens. Lipsiae sumptibus typisque Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii. MDCCCXXXVII . Hardback.

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N° du livre: 36188

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Phoenician|Inscriptions|Featured|Special Collection

GREGORIE, GREGORY John (1607-1646).

Gregorii Posthuma: Or, Certain Learned Tracts: Written by John Gregorie, M.A. And Chaplain of Christ-Church in Oxford. Together with a Short Account of the Autor's Life; and Elegies on His Much Lamented Death. Published by His Dearest Friend J.G. B.D. Of Merton College. Printed by William Du-Gard, for Laurence Sadler, and Are to Bee Sold at the Golden Lion in Little-Britain. 1650.

Little-Britain, William Du-Gard, for Laurence Sadler,, 1650. 1649. 4to. Contemporary blind ruled full calf, neatly re-jointed. (24)+330 pp. illustrations and charts. Head and tail pieces. historiated initials. Printer's device to each part. Pringle of Whitebank's armorial ex libris bookplate. Generally a very good copy. Internally very crisp and clean. A little scuffing to leather, joint neatly repaired, paste-downs distressed, a small amount of damage to title page with marginal print loss. Very occasional contemporary underscoring. Each tract with separate title page dated 1649. Wing G1927.

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N° du livre: 38079

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Antiquarian|Biography|Featured|Ex-Libris|Theology

GRIERSON, George A.

An Introduction to the Maithili Dialect of the Bihari Language As Spoken in North Bihar. Second Edition.

Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press, 1909. Later semi-professional binding in half cloth on light blue paper-covered boards, viii+305 pp. Pictures available. Paper brittle as is usual with place and time of publication, a little browned, first pages loose with a closed tear but no loss but a good copy. Descriptive grammar by eminent oriental scholar interested particularly in the dialects of Bihar. In 1898 Grierson was appointed as supervisor of the project The Linguistic Survey of India or LSI. The present volume first appeared (first edition) as a paper in the Asiatic Journal in 1881. This seems to be the first printing of this work in book form. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 30676

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Languages of India|India|Maithili|Bihari|Language|Indo-Aryan|Featured

GRIGOR'IEV', L I OLENIN', B.

Russkoie Slovo. V'Pusk' Vtoroi. (Russian Primer)

Riga, K G Zikhman, (C. J. Sichmann), 1912. Original cloth backed paper-covered boards, decorated and lettered, 112pp. very many full-page and in-text b/w illustrations. In unusually good condition. Very crisp; clean and tight. Collectable; Very Good Russian children's primer published in Riga. Interesting to compare 'Leitfaden der deutschen Sprache' also published by Sichmann about the same time. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 32704

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Russian|Featured|Reader|Children's

GRUITHUISEN, Franz von Paula.

Siegfried, Oder Kurze Biographie Des Verstandes Bis Auf Den Zwist Mit Seinen Kindern; in Einer Nach Dem Leben Gewählten Darstellung.

Munich München, I J Lentner, 1812. Original publisher's blue wrappers untrimmed, neatly re-backed with label to spine and new end-papers. 8vo. 144 pp. In very good condition, new end-papers and spine unobtrusive. The present volume is possibly the only work of literature by Baron Franz von Paula Gruithuisen (1774 - 1852). Better known as a physician and as an astronomer, his contributions to weather-forecasting and the understanding of sun-spots were far-reaching. As a medical man, he was also noted for his work in urology and lithotripsy. However, his hypotheses about the inhabitants of the moon and how to correspond to them, subjected him to ridicule.

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N° du livre: 37520

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: German|Literature|Antiquarian|Featured

HAGEN, Friedrich Heinrich von der (Ed.). [Assoc. Ludwig Wörner].

Der Nibelungen Lied: Zum Erstenmal in Der ältesten Gestalt Aus Der St. Galler Urschrift Mit Vergleichung Aller übrigen Handschriften Herausgegeben. Dritte Berichtige, Mit Einleitung Und Wörterbuch Vermehrte Auflage. [School Prize Copy].

Breslau, Verlag von Josef Max, 1820. Third enlarged edition. 8vo. contemporary full calf ruled in blind, spine ornately gilt in compartments, turquoise labels, glazed endpapers also in turquoise, LXII[ii]+432[iv] pp. All edges gilt. A very nice tight copy a little darkening and small chip to spine labels else excellent. With long 1840 Aschaffenburg contemporary inscription. From the 'Rektor' and teacher Mittermayer to student Ludwig Wörner of Hessenthal, later author of 'Theorie des Planzeichnens'.

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N° du livre: 38086

Catalogue: Antiquarian Miscellany

Mots-clés: Featured|Literature|Folk|German

HANOTEAU (Adolphe)

Essai de Grammaire de la Langue Tamachek (Berber) Renfermant Les Principes Du Langage Parlé Par Les Imouchar' Ou Touareg, Des Conversations En Tamachek, Des Fac-Simile D'écriture En Caractères Tifinar', Et Une Carte Indiquant Les Parties de L'Algérie Où la Langue Berbère Est Encore En Usage. Deuxième édition.

Alger, Librarie Adolphe Jourdan. 1896. 8vo. hardback. Contemporary binding in brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, xxxi+299pp. Folding facsimile bound in back along with large folded coloured map in pocket. An lovely crisp copy. No annotations. Tight. Map and orthographic plate in excellent condition, no tears. Très bon état. Classic work. Adolphe Hanoteau fut chargé de travailler sur la langue des Touaregs du Sahara algérien, le tamashek, qui permettait aux linguistes d'approcher une langue berbère beaucoup moins mélangée à l'arabe que la langue kabyle.

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N° du livre: 38356

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Semitic Language|Afroasiatic|Alphabets and Scripts|Africa|Antiquarian|Philology|Berber|Featured

HARTLEY, John

Sammywell Grimes an' His Wife Mally. Laikin I' Lakeland: A Humourous Account of Their Visit to the Home of Famous Poets, Etc. , Etc. .

London, W. Nicholson & Sons, [1911]. Small 8vo.original green cloth lettered gilt. Portrait frontis. 141pp. lengthy publisher's list. A good copy, tight and clean. A little rubbing to spine and board edges. No publication date. Probably early 1900s. 'J. H. Morris' Darlington bookseller's neat stamp to title page. John Hartley (1839–1915) prolific author writing in the Yorkshire dialect. Born in Halifax, Hartley wrote a number of books featuring "Sammywell Grimes" and his adventures and mishaps.

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N° du livre: 38533

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Mots-clés: Featured|Antiquarian|Dialect|Britain|English|Literature