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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Jewish Press Publishing Co., 1915. Hardcover. 4to. xvii,1748,vipp. Black cloth with blind-stamped title on cover. "Joseph Krupp" in gold letters on cover, title in gold on spine. Some age wear and staining to binding. Split along spine on front board but holding. Couple of pages & color plate... More
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
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
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
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
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 100pp. Cloth over decorative paper covered boards, with original front wrap pasted on front cover. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Printer's device on front wrap. Original back wrap bound in. First edition of this fascinating work compiling Ethiopian poetry... More
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
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
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
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
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1907. Softcover. 8vo. x, 114pp. Original wrappers. Some creasing, discoloration and staining to wraps. No. VIII of "Semitic Study Series" edited by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Morris Jastrow Jr. Text in English and Arabic. Wraps in good, interior in very good condition. More
![Grammatica Elementare della Lingua Amarica [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF WOLF LESLAU]. Ignazio Guidi.](/pictures/thumb/27196.jpg?v=1434441752)
Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente, 1935. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 82pp. Red cloth over paper covered boards, with original front wrap pasted on front cover. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Printer's device on title-page. Original back wrap bound at rear. Fascinating work being an introductory grammar of... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. 184pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. In three parts: 1) A list of more than 500 words relating to parts of body, terms of relationship, material and spiritual culture, the numerals, some adjectives and some verbs. 2) Few grammatical... More
London: James Nisbet & Co., 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 186 + 4 pp. Blue wrapped boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Work is meant to highlight the historical importance to be found in a linguistic investigation into ancient proper names. Chapter headings include: I "The... More
Washington DC: American Council of Learned Societies, 1960. Revised. Softcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 295, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) dated 1960 on upper-half title. This remarkable introduction to spoken Vietnamese is based on the Southern (Saigon) dialect with explanation of Northern (Hanoi) differences. Moderate sunning... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1912. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. XII, 128pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. From the collection of Herbert H. Paper* dated Feb. 1951 on title page. Scarce monograph on the Frahang-i Pahlavîg, a dictionary of (mostly) Aramaic ideograms with Middle... More
Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1930. Softcover. Inscribed in Hebrew with pen at title page: "Rez. Ba'alei Masoret she be-Ma'arav: H. Yalon. (Lashoneinu, I. Tarpa"t [=1929]. 186 [pp]." [Appears to be an article in Hebrew that was used for the book: H. Yalon was a scholar of Hebrew grammar.] 4to. xii. 95pp... More
Leiden/Köln: E.J. Brill, 1958. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 244pp. Original green wrappers. Small residue of price sticker on cover and spine. Spine sunned. Slight creasing to outer edges of wrappers. Pages unopened. Part of a series "Handbuch der Orientalistik." Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten. Vierter Band: Iranistik..... More