Munich: Straub, 1886. Hardcover. 8vo. 53pp. Brown/maroon cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Head of spine chipped. Tail of spine rubbed. Scuffing, rubbing, discoloration and staining to boards and spine. Hinges starting. Minor age yellowing to pages, not affecting text. Signature of author on title page. Dissertation on..... More
London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1897. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/2"). 139pp (Text in English), 139pp (Text in Syriac). Original printed wrappers. Syriac text in red and black lettering. This work, the sixth of the Studia Sinaitica series, contains a collection of Syriac scriptural lessons from..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
Berlin: Verlag der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1917. Ex-Library First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 289pp. Original orange wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. (Einzelausgabe) From essays of the Royal Academy of Science, 1917. Philosophy-History Class No. 5. "The collection and publication of these texts represents the completion of one..... More
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
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
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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
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
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
Napoli [Naples]: Instituto Universitario Orientale, 1994. Softcover. 8vo. xxiii. 331 (1)pp. Gray wrappers with red and black lettering to front wrapper and black lettering to spine. Head of spine slightly rubbed. Signed letter by Yacob Beyne, with official letterhead of the University of Naples' Institute of Oriental Studies [Instituto Universitario..... More
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
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
Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente, 1938. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. VII, [3], 263pp. Full red cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine. Original wraps bound in. Scarce first edition of this study of the language and history of the Sidama people.The Sidama people are one of the Cushitic speaking people..... More
Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente, 1938. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. VI, 231pp. Full red cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine. Original wraps bound in. Wolf Leslau's stamp on upper blank page and dated 1939. Scarce first edition of this study of the various languages of the Sidama people living..... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1962. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. vii, (1) 36, 159pp. Original stiff green wrappers with black lettering on cover. "... an introduction to the structure of Pashto; together with the reader of Pashto by Herbert Penzl (ref.), it can serve as the basis of a one-year..... More
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiii,258pp. Gold decorated maroon cloth. Minor scuffing to boards. Inscribed by author to Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA. Volume 38 of the series "Äthiopistische Forschungen." Text in English and Amharic. Binding in very good, interior in..... More
Wheaton, MD: Dunwoody Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 265pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. "The following 45 selections in Colloquial Adeni Arabic give the student a detailed look at modern-day life from many different angles in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen)."..... More
London: Mouton & Co., 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 478pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustjacket. Minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Chipping, scuffing, creasing and tearing to dj. This interesting work looks at the 'Maintenance and Perpetuation of Non-English mother Tongues by..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Third edition, revised. Hardcover. Quarto. xxxvi, 646pp. Including indices and an extensive English-Egyptian vocabulary. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece with b/w facsimile of 3 different forms of ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing and inscription. Book is an ingenious work which teaches how to..... More
Rome: Multigarafica Editrice, 1982. First edition. Softcover. Sm. folio. 138pp. of text followed by 117pp. of plates. Tan wrappers with brown and black lettering to cover. One inch closed tear to tail of spine. Documents from the III. Ur Dynasty regarding the economy in the collection of the British Museum..... More