London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,150pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Tail of spine and small section on fore-edge bumped. "This book is a result of co-operation between Mr. Muuse Galaal and myself. The stories given here are taken from his unpublished... More about Hikmad Soomaali
Rome: Tipografia Pio X, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,217pp. Rebound. Orange cloth with black lettering on spine. Minor staining and scuffing to boards. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous former UCLA Professor who was an expert on Ethiopian Language. Some age yellowing to outer edges of pages not affecting text... More about Consuetudini Giuridiche del Serae
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1875. Hardcover. 8vo. 309pp. Quarter cloth over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Label on spine, pasted on, chipped, illegible. Slight chipping to head and tail of spine. Abrasions and scuffing to boards. Wear to edges. Ex library stamp to inside of front board and title page... More about Morgenländische Forschungen
Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Ilcaa), 1982. Softcover. 12mo. [5],vi,159,10pp. Black wraps in original printed dust wrapper. Beni Amir is the least known dialect of Tigré, spoken in the frontier region of the Red Sea between Sudan and Ethiopia. Number XVI of..... More about A Vocabulary of Beni Amer Dialect of Tigré
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1954. Hardcover. 4to. iv, 146pp. Original black cloth. A doctoral dissertation on Farsi linguistics. Cover stained and slightly bowed. Signed by member of the dissertation committee on front free endpaper. Overall in good condition. More about The Phonemes and Morphemes of Modern Persian: A Descriptive Study (Dissertation
Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1969. Softcover. 4to. xv. 433pp. of text and drawings followed by 50pp. of plates. Gray wrappers with black decoration and lettering to cover. Two-inch tear along tail of spine. Minor creasing to wrappers. A detailed account of the "Runden Tafeln" (Round Tables) of the III Ur... More about Texte zur Verwaltung der Landwirtschaft in der Ur-III Zeit
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. X, 511pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Scarce work intended to contribute to the standardization and codification of the present-day Amharic political and social terminology, though its objectives are primarily practical. Minor age-wear on binding... More about A Concise Sociopolitical Dictionary English-Amharic
University of California Publications, 1907-1918. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, X, 444pp. Full library buckram with gold lettering and borders on spine. Decorative endpapers in a floral Art Nouveau style. Fascinating compilation of the first 3 volumes of Semitic Philology: - Vol. 1, No. 1 February 1907 (pp. 1-55) - Vol. 1... More about Semitic Philology. 1907-1918
Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1887. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. VI, 426, [2]pp. Full green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original wraps bound in. Scarce first edition of this dictionary of the Blin language. The Blin language (Bilin or Bilen) has approximately 70,000... More about Die Bilin-Sprache. Zweiter Band. Wörterbuch der Bilin-Sprache [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF WOLF...
Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VI, 315pp. Red cloth over paper covered boards with original front wrap pasted on front cover. Gold lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original back wrap bound in. Scarce and fascinating work on the Saho language, a...... More about Die Saho-Sprache. Erster Band : Texte der Saho-Sprache [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF WOLF LESLAU
Halis Saxonum. Sumtibus Orphanotrophel, 1892. Hardcover. 8vo. x,123-1, 3-119pp. Three-quarter cloth over black linen with gold decorated spine. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Scuffing and rubbing to boards. Wear to edges. Names of two previous owners in blue ink on title-page. Some underlining and notes to a...... More about Chrestomathia Syriaca Quam Glossario et Tabulis Grammaticis Explanavit Aemilius Roediger
Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1905 (Vol. 1); 1923 (Vol. 2). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/2 x 7 1/2"). [8], ii, cxvi, 264, [2]pp (Vol. 1); [4], xl, 277, [3]pp (Vol. 2). Modern full burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Frontispiece portrait of Silvestre de Sacy in... More about Bibliothèque des arabisants Français contenant les mémoires des orientalistes français...
Manchester University Press, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 172pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Head of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription to inside of front board "A.E. Silverstone's attempt to revive the long-abandoned identification of the author of the Aramaic with that of the Greek version... More about Aquila and Onkelos
New Haven: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXX, 230pp. Original half black cloth over printed paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper, and dated 1948. This scarce work is an introduction to Hurrian, a.... More about Introduction to Hurrian [The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Vol. XX for...
Graz: Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft, 1997. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. L, 380pp. Original green wrappers. Some scuffing to wrappers. Inscribed to Wolf Leslau by the editor on title-page. Frontispiece of Maria Höfner. "Der hier vorliegende Band, die Gedenkschrift für Frau Maria Höfner, ist der Versuch, die Reste der Erben zu bewahren und..... More about Aktualisierte Beiträge zum 1. Internationalen Symposium Südarabien interdisziplinär an der...
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1977. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 470pp. Original wrappers. Spine sunned. Minor discoloration to wrappers. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the former professor at UCLA and expert on Ethiopian Semitic languages, to inside of front wrapper. Inscribed by author in pencil on free front endpaper. Volume 10, Serie... More about Das tigrinische Verbalsystem [INSCRIBED
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Leipzig: J. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. From Herbert H. Paper's library; his name and note on the source of this gift on front free endpaper. Octavo. lxxxiv, 160 (2)pp. Rebound in modern black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Original wrappers bound in. First attempt to... More about Die Keilinschriften der Achämeniden [INSCRIBED
Edinburgh: Printed for J. Dickson, P. Hill, and W. Laing, 1794. Second edition, greatly enlarged. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvii,404pp. Gray buckram covered boards. Cloth has been tied-down to inside of boards. Raised bands. Age wearing throughout binding. Scuffing, wear and staining to boards. Discoloration to spine. Page edges untrimmed. Sporadic foxing... More about Elements of Hebrew Grammar to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the two modes of reading, with...
Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1909. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv, 516 pp. Blue cloth. German work on the grammar, vocabulary etc. of the language known as Avestan, which is an Eastern Iranian language, once used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta (the primary collection of sacred texts... More about Awestisches Elementarbuch (Indogermanische Bibliothek, 1. Reihe: Grammatiken, Fünfter Band
Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. viii. 73pp. Marbled boards. Age wear throughout binding. Scuffing, abrasions and some discoloration to boards and spine. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to edges. An essay by Karl Gustaf Andresen on Jacob Grimms Orthography. Jacob Grimm was 'the other..... More about Ûber Jacob Grimms Orthographie
Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1929. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. LII, 268, [2]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper. Published on the occasion of the Centennial of French Algeria, this study is a remarkable introduction to the Berber language, a language spoken by... More about La Langue Berbère. Morphologie. Le Verbe. - Étude de Thèmes
London: Oxford University Press, 1976. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. xxiv,572pp. Original color printed wraps. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the former professor at UCLA and expert on Ethiopian language, on inside of front cover. "This comprehensive study is the result of research by an interdisciplinary team of international scholars... More about Language in Ethiopia
Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1970. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 153 pp. White paper wrappers with black lettering on front cover and spine. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was set up in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between scholars... More about Publications of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Section of Humanities: On...
Ann Arbor: 1966. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. viii, 176pp. Original black cloth tape over decorative paper-covered boards. Dissertation submitted to obtain degree as Doctor of Philosophy. "The purpose of this study is preliminary to assess and characterize the lexical relationships that exist among the major urban Syro-Lebanese varieties of Arabic... More about An Analytical Study of Interdialectal Lexical Compatibility in Arabic
Rome: Multigrafica Editrice, 1976. First edition. Softcover. Sm. folio. 34pp. of text followed by 88pp. of plates. Tan wrappers with brown and black lettering to cover. Minor chipping to tail and slight creasing to head of spine. A wonderful book looking at Sumerian and Akkadian language and text. Illustrated with... More about La Collezione del Pontificio Istituto Biblico - Roma; La Collezione della Collegiata dei SS....