Weimar: Emil Felber, 1898. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv. 508pp. Black cloth. Printers devices. Contains prologue, bibliography, index, history of North Semitic epigraphic, different kinds of inscriptions, language of the inscriptions and a selection of the inscriptions. Age wear to binding. Table of contents (pages i- xiv) loose but present. In German... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. Softcover. 4to. Original printed wraps. "Univ Pub" stamp on front wrapper. Pages unopened, as issued. Scarce work looking at Sumerian temple records at Umma, Nippur, and Lagash. Illustrated with b//w reproductions of tablets. Creasing, some staining and sunning to wraps. Minor chipping and few... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College. Gustav E. Stechert, 1893. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. xiv,149,[1],pp. Blind-stamped dark green cloth with lettering in gold, and library inventory plate on spine. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped. Minor scuffing to boards. Decorated endpapers. Discoloration to endpapers. Ex libris of Hebrew Union College... More
Brunswick: Third edition, enlarged, revised, and corrected, 1844. Frederick Vieweg and son. Hardcover. 8vo. xx,249pp. Half leather over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Head and tail of spine chipped. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to edges. Scuffing and wear to boards. Pen and pencil marking throughout book. Sporadic foxing... More
Madras: The Adyar Library, 1946. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. xxviii, 522 pp. Original wrappers. Some chipping, close tears, wearing and discoloration to covers. Some light staining and one pen mark to front. Ex libris. Frontis. Some light worming not effecting text, else covers in fair condition, book in good reading... More
Berlin: Herausgegeben vom Zionistischen Actions-Comité, ca. 1914. Sechstes bis zwanzigstes Tausend. Softcover. 8vo. 96pp. Original printed wrappers. Fascinating work on the tensions between Palestine and Israel in the early 1910's, the education of Jews in Erez Israel, and the fight for the revival of the Hebrew language. Includes various articles... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vi,276pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor scuffing and discoloration to boards. Some age yellowing to outer edges of pages not affecting text. Frontispiece of Wolfgang Krause. A "Festschrift" by Krauses'..... More
Ann Arbor; London: University Microfilms, Inc., ND. Reprint. Paperback. Quarto. Unpaginated [128]pp. Original wrappers with title laid on front cover. This microfilm edition of a Pahlavi-Pazand-Persian glossary was reproduced from a British Museum manuscript. Moderate sunning on spine and edges of wrappers. Wraps in overall good, interior in very good... More
Paris: Khéops, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. XXVIII, 335, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. François Neveu's "Grammaire du Néo-Égyptien" is a comprehensive study of the language of ancient Egypt. Text in French. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. More
Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 240pp. Maroon cloth with gold title on spine. Minor scuffing to boards. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the former professor at UCLA and expert on Ethiopian language, to inside of front board. Signed by Wolf Leslau. Inscription of another owner..... More
Rome: Multigrafica Editrice, 1974. First edition. Softcover. Sm. folio. 30pp. of text followed by 70pp. of plates. Tan wrappers with red and black lettering to cover. Small closed tear to tail of spine. Minor staining to back wrapper. 3 pages of an article regarding this book stapled to inside of... More
Milan: R. Stamperia, 1836(?). Hardcover. 8vo. 52pp. Half cloth over paper-covered boards with paste-down title plate. Heavy abrasions to plate. Head and tail of spine, corners and edges worn. Scuffing and abrasions to boards. Ex libris and stamp to inside of front board plus another stamp to title page. Sporadic... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1887. Paperback. 8vo. v, 116 pp. Gray paper cover. Pages uncut at top edge. Back cover detached, but present. Chipping to page edges. Else, in good condition. More
Meched (Iran): Université de Méched, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth with gold lettering and ruling on spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper (Herbert H. Paper*). Scarce romanized transliteration of words, sentences and texts of the Bukhara dialect. Spine slightly age-toned. Upper front corner bumped..... More
Rome: Imprimerie de la Royale Academie des Lincei, 1920. Softcover. Sm. 8vo. xvi,237pp. Original wrappers rebound in half-cloth over paper-covered boards. Gold lettering on spine. The front wrapper has been pasted-down on the front board. Discoloration and minor staining to wrapper. Discoloration to back board. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau... More
Leipzig: Verlag der Asia Major, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. XIX ,330 pp. Green cloth with gold writing and emblem on front cover and spine. Important, work on the Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud. In German. Book is in very good condition. More
London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1983. Hardcover. Lg. 4to. xix,217,38pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dustjacket. Head and tail of spine and bottom corners slightly bumped. Some creasing and discoloration to dj. Excavations at North Saqqara directed by W.B. Emery. Documentary Series under the general..... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,582pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. This work was dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday November 14th, 1981 by friends and colleagues. Leslau was a professor at... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,582pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Minor scuffing to boards. Small mark of blue ink on fore-page edge. Frontisportrait of Leslau with his signature in facsimile. This work was dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 582pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Minor scuffing to back cover. Frontispiece. This is a volume of studies by colleagues, friends and disciples of Wolf Leslau, the famous UCLA Professor. It is dedicated to him on the occasion of... More
Leipzig: Bei S. Hirzel, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 72pp. Paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. Spine repaired with clear tape. Some spotting and scuffing to boards. Hinges starting. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA to inside of front board... More
[Teheran]: Bank Melli Iran Press, 1958-59. First edition. Paperback. Large octavo. 317, [5]pp. Original printed wrappers. Frontispiece portrait of Mohammad Rezâ Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. The first part of this Persian method focuses on acquiring the spoken aspect of Persian i.e. speaking the language correctly or, at least coming to..... More
Giessen: J. Ricker'sche Buchhandlung, n/d. Hardcover. Ex library. 8vo. viii,123pp. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly rubbed. Small library stamp to inside of front board. Signature of previous owner to blank page preceding front endpaper, and small ex..... More
Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf und Comp. 1793. Second revised. Hardcover. Ex-library. 4to. viii,1992,[1],pp. Numbered double-columns on each page, starting from 1 through 1992. Modern black cloth with handwritten label pasted on spine, modern endpapers. Ex-libris of Hebrew Union College on inside of front board, blind-stamp of the same on... More
Pittsburgh, Bangkok: Self published, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xiv, 323, xxvii, 324-552pp. Original cloth tape over illustrated green Wrappers with black lettering on covers. "The principles of aural-oral approach underline this text... The term aural-oral is used because it describes the point of entrance into the study of the... More