Berlin: Im Selbstverlag, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 85pp. Original gray wrappers with black lettering on cover. Studies of old Assyrian cuneiform script monuments from Cappadocia based on three new text publications since 1919. Comparative study of Old Babylonian, Old Assyrian and the Cappadocian texts. Grammatical details as well as..... More
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1898. Second revised. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxiv,305pp. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Gilt on spine faded. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Scuffing and abrasions to boards. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to edges. Hinges starting. Name of previous owner on title-page..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1915. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 148 pp. Blue boards with dj. Signature on title page from former author, Samson H. Levey, the Semitic linguist and Biblical Scholar who specialized in Aramaic, which Syriac is a form of. Dj has been taped onto book at edges..... More
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, Inc., ND. Reprint. Paperback. Quarto. 207pp. Original wrappers with title pasted on front cover. From the collection of Herbert H. Paper* on front free endpaper, and dated 1960. Photocopy of the original edition of Lev Ivanovich Zhirkov's Persidskii iazyk elementarnaia grammatika (Elementary Grammar of the Persian..... More
Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1974. Fourth edition. Softcover. Quarto. iv, 249, 46pp. Original ochre wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. A translation of Riemenschneider's Lehrbuch des Akkadischen with a 46 page general vocabulary as a useful tool for the beginner. Binding rubbed with crease at right lower corner..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 218pp. Original half cloth over printed paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine and blue lettering on front cover. This work is a comprehensive and authoritative study of Middle Egyptian grammar. Minor shelf wear and slight sunning along..... More
London: Kegan Paul, 1943. Reprint of the original 1941 edition. Hardcover. 12mo. vii, 140pp. Mottled maroon cloth with black lettering. Ex libris. Great work on Farsi, with theoretical part, practical application (conversation, vocabulary) and bibliography. Corners, head and tail of spine rubbed, with 1/4" piece missing at top of spine..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Second edition. Softcover. Quarto. x, 235pp. Original blue wrappers with black lettering on cover. Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary No. 2. "The present study of Old Akkadian writing and grammar is based on sources fully listed and discussed in the Glossary of Old Akkadian..... More
Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1921. Dritte verbesserte Auflage. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, 434pp. Decorated olive cloth. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Wear to bottom corners. Some scuffing and minor staining to binding. Spine split along front board but firm. Map front endpapers. Signed and dated by previous owner on title-page..... More
Philadelphia: American Oriental Society, 1936. Ex Library First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xi, 172pp. Original gray wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Dissertation in Semitic linguistics. American Oriental Series Volume 8. "The basis of the present grammar is the language of the Phoenician alphabetic inscriptions... The present grammar includes..... More
New-Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo. xviii, 19-306pp. Original calf with gilt ruling and lettering on black label of spine. Illustrated by appropriate examples, selected chiefly from the British classics. Structured and executed in seven books treating language and style as the foundation of eloquette, the..... More
Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1920. Ex-Library First edition. Softcover. Octavo. xix, 351pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Series published by the Academy of Science Vienna: Writings of the Language Commission volumes VII. Focusing on phonetics and grammar of the Nubian dialect spoken in the mountains of..... More
Paris: Librairie C. Klinksieck, 1956. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. xii.277pp. Original tan wrappers. Some creasing, scuffing and discoloration to wrappers. Tail of spine bumped. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Pages unopened. Illustrated with a fold-out map as well as a full page map (loose). Text in French. Part LVII of..... More
Vienna: K.k. Universitätsbuchhhandlung Georg Szelinski, 1906. Softcover. 4to. 223pp. Illustrated wrappers. Page edges untrimmed. Many pages unopened. Very extensive work on the grammar of Amharic [the main Ethiopian language], with sectionsbs and pronouns, syntax and aphorism. With German-Amharic dictionary at end. Pevious owner stamp 'Charles A. Muses' at free front..... More
Berlin: Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik Leipzig, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,367,5pp. Tan cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA, on inside of front board. Reprint of the 1871 Halle edition looking at..... More
Teheran: University of Teheran, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 8, 151pp. Original decorated white wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. University of Teheran Publications No. 1025. Grammar of the Persian language. Written and spoken Persian. Persian English proverbs. Text in Persian and English. Wrappers rubbed with some discoloration..... More
Addis Ababa: NP, 1945. Softcover. Large octavo. 43,13pp. Original wraps rebacked with brown binders tape. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA, on inside of front cover. Rare handbook of elementary English for Ethiopians. Includes 13 pages of "A Handbook for..... More
Vilna: Bi-defus ve-hotsaat ha-almanah veha-ahim Rom, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto, 4, 292, 48pp. Original three quarter brown cloth over decorative paper-covered boards with brown lettering on plate at spine. Ben Zeev, 1764-1811, was a grammarian & lexicographer and the first Jewish scholar to apply Western research methods to..... More
Neukirchen: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Erziehungsvereins, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv (i), 215 (1)pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. In depth account of Hebrew syntax by one of the premiere experts on Semitic languages in East Germany. Text in German. Binding rubbed with light..... More
Friburgi [Freiburg]: Apud Bibliopolam Universitatis [Universitatsbuchhandlung], 1896. Softcover. 4to. [xii]. 148pp. Gray wrappers. Work on Hebrew grammar, accent and vowels. Written by acclaimed professor of Semitic Languages [Munster University], Hubert Grimme. With appendix on the divine name in Hebrew. Spine missing. Staining, creasing and some tears to wrappers. Pages loose..... More
Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. XX, 467, [1]pp. Original half morocco over brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. This work is a modern and comprehensive monograph on Ancient Egyptian written by Gustave Lefebvre (1879-1957), a renown French Egyptologist..... More
Rome: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxvii, 274 (51)pp. Library binding in aubergine cloth with white lettering on spine. Analecta Orientalia 33. Vignette on title page. Originally planned to be a more comprehensive grammar than A. Ungnads 1992 publication various problems occurring during the project resulted in..... More
Munich: Biederstein Verlag, 1949. Third revised. Hardcover. 8vo. xii.207pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Grammar of an Ancient Babylonian-Assyrian language. Age wear to binding. Hinges starting. Pen writing to free front endpaper, with pencil notes throughout, mainly at margins. Inside clean and tight. In German. Very good condition. More
Point Loma, California: Theosophical University Press, 1941. Revised edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. x,136pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. The original edition of this work was first published in India in 1851. Although it contained excellent material for beginners, it lacked sufficient explanations of difficult points. There were also..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1942). Third Impression. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,405pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustwrapper. A history of Greek and Latin from the point of view of comparative grammar, considering under three main heads - Phonology, Inflection, and Word Formation - the most essential..... More