Philadelphia: Conat Press. Academy Book Room, 1922. Hardcover. 8vo. 122pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed, corners rubbed. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. Stamps of Rabbi Saul B. Appelbaum on free front endpaper. "There has long been... More about The Elements of Hebrew
Leipzig: Caspar Fritz, 1789. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxx. 2839pp. 3/4 leather over paper covered boards. Title vignette. Printers devices. Latin-German dictionary. Complete in one volume. With two columns to each page and pagination according to columns. Seminal work of Latin lexicography. Scheller was the... More about Ausfuhrliches und moglichst vollstandiges deutsch-lateinisches Lexicon oder Worterbuch zur Ubung...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (2) vii, 229pp. Self-bound black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "The phonological changes responsible for the development of Old Persian and Avestan consonants are the subject of this study. An inventory of Proto-Indo-European phonological segments is taken for granted... More about A Generative Approach to the Development of Avestan and Old Persian Consonants
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1965. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. vi, 209pp. Signed and dedicated to Herbert Paper on title page by Jim Snow. Self bound blue wrappers with typed black lettering on label on cover. Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of... More about A Grammar of Modern Written Arabic Clauses [SIGNED
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv, 347pp. Green cloth with embossed gilt lettering. Work on Medieval Grammar of Iraqi Arabic, written by the late Orientalist Rafi Talmon (see below).Fine condition. Rafi Talmon was born in Haifa on January 9, 1948. In 1973 he completed his B.A. studies in... More about Eighth-Century Iraqi Grammar: A Critical Exploration of Pre-Halilian Arabic Linguistics (Harvard...
Malibu: Undena publications, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. vii, 87pp., 131 plates. Original illustrated red buckram with black lettering on cover and spine. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica: Primary sources and interpretive analysis for the study of Mesopotamian civilization and its influences from late prehistory to the end of the cuneiform tradition, volume... More about The late Babylonian Texts of the Oriental Institute Collection
Cambridge: American Schools of Oriental Research, (1980). Hardcover. 4to. x,43pp. Illustrated blue cloth with white lettering. Authoritative work by Z. Zevit on ancient Hebrew epigraphy. Contents: The Study of Matres Lectionis. The Eighth Century - Israel. The Eighth-Seventh Centuries - Judah. The Sixth century. After the Sixth Century. Bibliography. Minor... More about Matres Lectionis in Ancient Hebrew Epigraphs
Philadelphia: Published for the American Schools of Oriental Research by the University of Pennsylvania, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 321-427pp. Half cloth over gray paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Wear to bottom front corner. Water stain to upper part... More about Joint Expedition with the Iraq Museum at Nuzi: Proceedings in Court (Publications of the Baghdad...
Leipzig: Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1777. Hardcover. 8vo. 300pp. Blue paper covered boards with red label to spine. Illustrated title page. Printers devices. Printed on high quality cotton rag. Work on German grammar by renowned 18th century German writer ande critic, Johann Christoph Gottsched. Text in German, in Gothic script... More about Kern der deutschen Sprachkunst, aus dessen ausführlichen Sprachkunst zum Gebrauche der Jugend
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. xx,49,118pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Some scuffing and discoloration to boards. Signature of previous owner to free front endpaper. Volume XIV of Harvard Semitic Series. Texts from excavations at Nuzi conducted by the Semitic Museum and the... More about Excavations at Nuzi: Volume V, Miscellaneous Texts from Nuzi (Part II: The Palace and Temple...
Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 1982. Softcover. 8vo. 86pp. Original wrappers. "Tigre is a Semitic Ethiopian language spoken in the eastern, western and northern lowlands of Eritrea, including the Massawa region and the Dahlak islands in the east, and up to the Kassala province and in the border regions of... More about North Ethiopic and Amharic Cognates in Tigre
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 412pp. Original printed paper covered boards. The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Betanure, which has hitherto remained unattested, is among the rarest and most seriously endangered varieties of Aramaic spoken at the present time. One of the most archaizing Jewish Neo-Aramaic varieties and... More about The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Betanure (Province of Dihok
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). 48pp (Text), 74 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. In this volume, Dr. Tremayne has published 198 texts dating from the reigns of the first... More about Records from Erech, Time of Cyrus and Cambyses (538-521 B. C.) [Yale Oriental Series. Babylonian...
Ankara: Ministry of Education; Directorate of Publications; Printed Education Materials Development Center, ND (ca 1960). First edition. Softcover. Oblong folio. 220pp. Original half black cloth over printed wrappers. This report of a study by the staff of the Georgetown University Language Program in Ankara, Turkey, was designed to provide information... More about Türkçe Kelime Sayimi: A Frequency Count of Turkish Words
New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1924. Hardcover. 4to. ix,1749pp. Blind-stamped black cloth. Heavy age wear and staining to binding. Split and frayed along spine on front board firmly holding. Marbled endpapers. Expertly reinforced with brown binders tape along gutter at front- and rear endpapers. Heavy pulling, chipping and creasing to... More about English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary: Complete Lexicon and Work of Reference in all...
München: Max Hueber, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 270 (1)pp. Original green cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Textbooks for the Study of Oriental and African Languages, Vol. XII. Persian, also defined as New-Persian is an Iranian language belonging to the family Indo-Germanic languages. Documents reach back to... More about Lesebuch der persischen Sprache
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukranian Research Institute Sources and Documents Series, 1978. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. x. 179pp. Embossed black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Slight discoloration to bottom edge and some scuffing on boards. Chipping, some discoloration and minor scuffing to dj. Head and tail of dj... More about An Early Slavonic Psalter from Rus'. Volume One: Photoreproductions
Warschau: Kauffmann, 1908. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 329, 84pp. Original brown leatherette with gilt lettering on covers and spine. Brown endpapers. Title pages printed in red and black, in Hebrew and German. More than 4,000 Jewish idioms used in Russia, Poland and Galicia, in... More about Jüdische Sprichwörter und Redensarten
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, 304, [2]pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. The present work is an edition of the 145 Khotanese fragments so far identified as belonging to the Buddhist text Sanghatasutra. They are compared with a text... More about The Khotanese Sanghatasutra: A Critical Edition [Beiträge zur Iranistik, Band 14
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). 26, [2]pp (Text), 76 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. The 200 letters contained in this volume were found at Warka, the ruins of which... More about Neo-Babylonian Letters from Erech [Yale Oriental Series. Babylonian Texts, Vol. III
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXII, 278, [2]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Fascinating work in which the author embraces the time before the Christian era, and a few centuries in the latter. The choice affords an opportunity to exhibit and examine... More about The Language of Palestine and Adjacent Regions
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). 47, [3]pp (Text), 84 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. 246 texts of the Yale Babylonian Collection, dated in the reign of Nabonidus (555-538 B.... More about Records from Erech, Time of Nabonidus (555-538 B. C.) [Yale Oriental Series. Babylonian Texts,...
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1967). Softcover. 4to. x,194pp. Original wrappers. Wraps slightly sunned. Minor rubbing to parts of edges and along spine. "The Basic Course follows the audio-lingual approach in teaching the phonology, basic structure, and useful vocabulary of the speech of the educated native of Sulaimania... More about A Kurdish-English Dictionary: Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq
Leipzig: Rengersche Buchhandlung, 1854. Hardcover. 8vo. x. 334pp. 315pp. Marbled paper covered boards. Hebrew grammar book by acclaimed German theologist and Orientalist Wilhelm Gesenius a.k.a. Gesenijs (see below). Alphabetic index, errata page and fold-out-table of Ancient Semitic languages at end. Age wear to binding. Minor browning to inside. For the..... More about Willhelm Gesenius' hebräisches Elementarbuch. Erster Theil. Hebräische Grammatik. Neu...
The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 119 (1)pp. Original light blue dustjacket with black and blue lettering on cover and spine glued to spine of blank stiff wrappers. "Over four hundred and fifty clay tablets were found at Tell Atshana, the site of the ancient city of... More about The Akkadian of Alalah