The English Gipsies and Their Language
London: Trubner, 1874. xiii + 259pp., 8vo, blue cloth; covers lightly worn. London: Trubner & Co., 1874. A very good copy. More
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Sentence Analysis in Modern Malay.
With Examples Drawn From Two Plays By Za'Ba. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Cambridge: UP, 1969. More
Speak for Yourself, Daniel: A Life of Webster in His Own Words
1969. Illustrated. xix + 505 pages, thick 8vo, blue cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper worn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
Dr Johnson and Noah Webster: Two Men & Their Dictionaries
San Francisco: Book Club, 1971. Illustrated. Contains a matched pair of original leaves from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language and Noah Webster's An American dictionary of the English Language. 84pp., thin 4to, decorative blue cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. A near fine copy. One of 500 copies. More
Humorous Autographed Letter Signed in French
Paris: 1878. 1 page, 6.75 x 4.25 inches, Paris, May 3, 1878, untranslated, in response to a stranger who has requested an autograph. Littre writes that he does not like the idea of giving out his signature just for the sake of the autograph -- that he is very old, very busy, and does not want to waste precious time of which he has hardly any left. However, he sends the autograph anyway: "rejected in principle, but done in fact."..... More
Maya Script; A Civilization and Its Writing
New York: Abbeville, 2000. Illus. 8vo, yellow cloth, d.w. New York: Abbeville, (2000). Fine. More
Introductio nova, oder: Neue ausfuhrliche Einleitung zu der Lateinischen Sprach... zu Nutz und Lieb der studirenden Jugend.; BOUND WITH Pauca Praecepta ad Graecam Linguam breviter discendam cum adjectis nominum per casus inflectendorum...
Munich & Ingolstadt: Cratz, 1757. 288, [24]pp index. Woodcut vignette on title and several other decorative tailpieces. BOUND WITH: Pauca Praecepta ad Graecam Linguam. 48pp. Woodcut decorations and 5 folding tables. Short thick 8vo, beautifully bound in full contemporary vellum with ornate blind-stamped designs on covers; metal clasps still perfectly functional. Munchen & Ingolstadt: Joh. Frank Xaveri Cratz, 1757. First edition? A near fine copy of this rather scarce book -- OCLC lists only 1 copy. More
An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytcal, and Historical.
London: John Murray, 1874. With a Treatise on the Orthography, Prosody, Inflections and Syntax of the English Tongue. 3 volumes. Translated from the German by Clair James Grece. xii, 510; iv, 494; xvi, 571pp. Thick 8vo, original gilt-lettered plum cloth (a bit soiled an faded; spine ends neatly repaired; scattered foxing; ex-library with bookplates and stamps on title pages, otherwise very good). London: John Murray, 1874. Very good. More
Mesoamerican Writing Systems; Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Illus. 495pp. Oblong 4to, 1/2 green cloth, d.w., covers slightly warped, pages throughout are slightly wavy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1992). More
Nathlie Srraute and the War of the Words: A Study in Five Novels.
230pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. Edinburgh: University Press, 1981. Near fine in very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Noah Webster.
New York: Mason Charter, 1975. Frontis. 8vo, tan cloth, d.w. dampstained and chipped. New York: Mason/Charter, 1975. More
The Story of French.
483pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. lightly soiled, otherwise very good). N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, (2006). History of the French language. More
Grammaire Sanscritte
Paris: Maisonneuve, 1864. 238 pages with text in French and Sanskrit. 8vo, pebbled blue cloth (corners bumped; very neatly re-cased with most of original spine preserved; light scattered foxing throughout). Paris: Maisonneuve & Berlin: Springer, 1864. Second edition. A very good copy of this uncommon book. More
The Oxford English Dictionary.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1978. 12 volumes, plus a 4 volume supplement edited by R. W. Burchfield. 16 volumes in total. Tall thick 4to, dark blue cloth, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, (1978). Most volumes have dust jackets. A very good (+) set. More
Rudimenta Nova Linguae Latinae. Rudimens Noubeaux de la Langue Latine, Divisez en Deux Livres, par Exercices Latins-Francois, dans lesquels on Apprendra Tellement lesPlus Faciles Preceptes de la Langue Lantine.
La Fleche: Griveau, 1648. 278 pages, last few with several small holes. 24mo, full original vellum, darkened with age. N.p. Georges Griveau, 1648. Scarce. Very good. More
A Dictionary of Kentish Dialect
London: English Dialect Society, 1887. 8vo, modern marbled boards, with paper spine label; original bright blue wrappers bound in. London: English Dialect Society, 1887. First Edition. Near fine. More
Principles of the History of Language.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, 1888. Translated by H.A. Strong. 512pp., blue cloth (slightly rubbed at extremities of spine). London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, 1888. Very Good. With the small opwnership label of art historian Meyer Schapiro, Light pencillings in the margins of a few pages. More
Bibliography of the Iroquoian Languages
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. Facsimiles. 8vo, later red cloth, original wrappers bound in. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. Very good. More
Bibliography of the Muskhogean Languages
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. 114pp. 8vo, later red cloth, original wrappers bound in, cloth lightly soiled, front wrapper lightly soiled. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. More
Bibliography of the Wakashan Languages
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894. 70pp. 8vo, later red cloth, original wrappers bound in, cloth lightly soiled, pencil marks in margin of a few pages. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894. More
Linguistic Stocks of American Indians North of Mexico
Sackett & Williams, 1891. Map. Original color lithograph. 20.25 x 17.5 inches. The Aleutian Islands are included as an inset in this unusual map of regional linguistic data. Special attention given to the West Coast. Henry Gannet produced the Seventh Annual Report for the Bureau of Ethnology. Repairs to original folds. More
Diagram showing Comparative Area of European Countries, with the Proportion of Sexes in each, according to latest Official Returns.
Dallas: Rand McNally, 1890. Lithograph. 14" x 10.25". Some toning and chips at edges. In very good condition. Page 15 from 'New Family Atlas of the World' (Dallas, 1890). A visually striking diagram showing the populations divided by sex of Russia, the German Empire, France, Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and Greece. More
Diagram Showing the Comparative Illiteracy in the States and Territories of the United States.
Dallas: Rand McNally, 1890. Lithograph. 14" x 10.25". Some toning and chips at edges. In very good condition. Page 12 from rom 'New Family Atlas of the World' (Dallas, 1890). A visually striking diagram showing illiterate populations in each state and territory. Two columns show populations as 'Unable to read' and 'Unable to write'. Verso shows the diagram 'Production of Steel in Tons'. More
Autographed Note Signed
1862. Autograph note signed, 12 mo, 1 page, Paris, Oct. 29th 1862. in French: "Mille remeriments, A.M. Graetzer, en friern de transmitre - compliments M. Leary de Breslain". Very good condition. French philologist and leader of the school of critical philosophy in France. More