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 about An Annotated Bibliography of the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia
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 about An Annotated Bibliography of the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia
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 about A Greek-English Lexicon: A New Edition Revised and Augmented
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 about Handbuch der Nordsemitischen Epigraphik: Nebst ausgewählten Inschriften. I: Text
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 about Sumerian Temple Records of the Late Ur Dynasty [University of California Publications in Semitic...
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 about An Elementary Textbook of Hebrew Accidence Arranged in Typical Examples with Concise Explanations...
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 about The English Reader, or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the most eminent modern...
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 about Dr. C. Kunhan Raja Presentation Volume: A Volume Of Indological Studies
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 about Im Kampf um die hebräische Sprache
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 about Indogermanica: Festschrift für Wolfgang Krause zum 65. Geburtstag am 18. September 1960 von...
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 about Pahlavi - Pazand - Persian Glossary. BM - Or 9210 [Microfilm edition
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 about Phonetic Picture Dictionary
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 about La Langue des Ramsès: Grammaire du Néo-Égyptien
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 about Beiträge zur Semitischen Sprachwissenschaft [SIGNED
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 about La Collezione Schollmeyer
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 about Lexicon Linguae Copticae
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 about Remarques sur: Le Dialecte de Bukhara
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 about Grammaire Abregee de la Langue Somalie avec Exercices et Conversations
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 about Satzlehre Der Aramäischen Sprache des Babylonischen Talmuds (Veröffentlichungen der Alexander...
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 about Aramaic Texts from North Saqqara with some Fragments in Phoenician (Sixth Memoir
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 about Ethiopian Studies
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 about Ethiopian Studies
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 about Über den Ursprung der Mehrlautigen Thatwörter der Ge'ezsprache
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). xvi, [2], 45, [3]pp (Text), 46 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Since the publication of Albert T. Clay's "Miscellanous Inscriptions in the Yale Babylonian... More about Votive and Historical Texts from Babylonia and Assyria [Yale Oriental Series. Babylonian Texts,...
[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 about Varasteh's Persian Method for English-Speaking Student. Book One