New York: Mitchell Kennerley, (1918). Hardcover. Sm. folio. 44,[28]pp. Gold-stamped black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Deckled page edges. 1918 publication by one of America's most important type designers looking at hand lettering and printing. Illustrated with 26 plates showing each letter of the alphabet in 15 different lettering..... More
Paris: Baudry, 1857. Third revised. Softcover. Rare work: OCLC only lists 2 libraries that have later editions. 12mo. 447pp. Cardboard Wrappers. Dictionary of commercial and trade terms in English, French and Spanish. This is the third edition, revised, corrected and expanded by the author. Serious wear to wrappers with top part..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890. Hardcover. Sm. elephant folio. [5],67-294pp. Quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with printed title-label. Contents: Inscriptions from Ephesos - Prolegomena. Section I: Decrees. Section II: Letters from Kings and Emperors. Section III: Honours for the Imperial Family and to Public Bodies. Section IV: Public Works and Buildings..... More
Bern: Francke, 1962. First edition. Softcover. 2 volumes. Sm. quarto. Volume A: Zur Methologie der Kleinraumatlanten. xv,144pp. Part B: Fragebuch - Transriptionsschlüssel - Aufnahmeprotokolle. 174pp. Original printed wraps. Pages unopened, as issued. Part A illustrated with some b/w reproductions of photographs. Text in German. Minor creasing and sunning on wraps..... More
Hebrew University, 1968. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. 9,290,5pp. Original wrappers rebound in red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Some scuffing to boards. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the former professor at UCLA and expert on Ethiopian language to inside of front board. The word "Conversation" in original title on front..... More
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1997. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. Continuous pagination. xxi,1041pp. Illustrated paper boards with white lettering to cover and spine. Beige endpapers. Fascinating linguistic work on Semitic and Indo-European languages, including Syraic, Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic [Ethiopian], Iranian and Urdu. With contributions by renowned scholars in the field..... More
New York: AMS Press, 1983. Reprint of 1919 editin. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. 54pp. Plates I- XC (90 plates). Preface: "The texts (...) offer material and data of value for the reconstruction of the political and civil history of the people who lived..... More
New Haven: Published for The Brooklyn Museum by the Yale University Press, 1953. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 319, 25pp. of plates. Original blue dustjacket over gray mottled cloth with blue & gold cover label of "The Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences" and gilt lettering on label of spine. "These rare..... More
London: Mouton & Co., 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. 336pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. No. 1 of the series "Bibliographies on the Near East." The author was a famous expert on Semitic languages and a former Professor of UCLA. Near fine condition. More
London: Mouton & Co., 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. 336pp. Gray cloth with gold lettering on spine. Original dust jacket in two pieces laid-in. Heavy tearing and chipping to dj. Some rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. No. 1 of the series "Bibliographies on the Near East." The author..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. (xlviii), 1020-2111. Grey dust jacket with blue and black lettering on covers and spine. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek Dictionary, worldwide. Includes every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940, from the Pre-Classical..... More
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
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
Lemgo: Meyersche Buchhandlung, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (16) 644 (2)pp. Original light blue paper boards with with handwritten title and stamped crown with initials on paper label of spine. Red edges. Title page with decorative border, vignette and stamped crown with initials. Historiated head and endpieces. Meusel was a...... 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
Beijing: Phonetic Committee, 1920. First edition. Softcover. 1/3000. Octavo. (6) 38pp. Original tan stapled wraps with red lettering on cover. The national phonetic symbols and word-forms interpreted by mimetic and illustrative cuts. Phonetic Committee Number 22. Contains two prefaces, one to explain the phonetic alphabet, the other the picture phonetic..... 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
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