Brünn: NP, 1914. Hardcover. 8vo. 98pp. Original paper-covered boards. Spine has been crudely repaired with clear tape. Scuffing, discoloration and minor staining to boards. Browning to front and rear endpapers as well as title-page. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the former professor at UCLA and expert on Ethiopian Semitic languages..... More
New Haven: Published for Goucher College by Yale University Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/4"). 67, [3]pp (Text), 56 leaves (Plates). 3/4 dark blue cloth over tan paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. The 420 texts of this volume belong to the reigns..... More
Washington DC: Reprinted by the Center for Applied Linguistics of the Modern Language Association of America, 1960. Reprint. Paperback. Quarto. 136, 18, 16, 15, [1], 21, [1], 18, 19, [1], 18, 19, 18, 24, 21, 20, [4], 83, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front covers and title..... More
Samuel Amdemaskel, n/d. Hardcover. 8vo. [6],303pp. Rebound in half cloth over boards. Rubbing and some wear to boards. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA to inside of front board. Frontispiece. Small stamp on title page. Age yellowing to pages. A...... More
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. x. 85pp. Copies: Plates 1-213. Photographs: Plates I-X (10 plates). Gray cloth with gilt title plate to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Preface: "The present publication contains 988 tablets and seal inscriptions which date to the Third Dynasty of Ur..... More
The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 319pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustjacket. Bottom corners bumped. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Some creasing, discoloration and minor chipping and tearing to dj. "This book puts the main emphasis on a presentation..... More
Graz: Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft, 1997. Softcover. Small quarto. l,381pp. Original printed wraps. Frontispiece of Maria Höfner with her signature in facsimile. Collection of essays by various experts. "Der hier vorliegende Band, die Gedenkschrift für Frau Maria Höfner, ist der Versuch, die Reste der Erben zu bewahren und vielleicht zu neuem Leben..... More
Louvain; Paris; Dudley: Peeters, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. XVI, 539, [3]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over red cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Since time immemorial the Song of Songs (SofS) has been a source of amazement and inspiration. The countless translations and interpretations of this book..... More
Warminster, Wilshire, England: Aris & Phillips, 1986/1992. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 2 vols. 156pp. 262pp. Original wrappers. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. Wear and scuffing to covers. Translations of texts and reproductions of cuneiform tables including Indices for Personal Names, Divine Names, Geographical Names, Toponyms, concordances and..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. vi. 660pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 1" tear to left of spine head. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Corners slightly bumped. Reference work. In overall good condition. More
London: Routledge, (1995). Softcover. 8vo. 373,[1]pp. Original color photographic wraps. Written by experienced teacher David Appleyard, the book offers a step-by-step approach for the beginner to written and spoken Amharic. Some age wear and creasing on wraps. Wrappers in good-, interior in very good condition. "From the last library of..... More
Paris: Publications Orientalistes de France, 1974. First edition. Softcover. Oblong 16mo. 434pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover and title-page. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front cover. Scarce first edition of this Gueze-Amharic glossary of verbal forms. Some age-wear on wraps with 3" closed tear on..... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1911. Softcover. Sm. quarto. 54pp. Original pictorial wraps. Illustrated title-page. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stiftung Heinrich Lanz, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Jahrgang 1911. 7. Abhandlung. Minor creasing and sunning on wraps. Wrappers in good+, interior in very good condition. Scarce. More
Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1919. Ex-Library First edition. Softcover. Quarto. ix, 213pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Academy of Science Vienna: Philosophical-History Class. Contains extensive phonetic studies of the language and their relation to the grammar. With numerous phonetic examples, scores and texts. Register of words..... More
Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, Verlag Butzon & Becker Kevelaer, 1976. Softcover. 4to.85pp. Followed by 20 pages of photographic plates numbered I-XX. Original wrappers. Ex library. Research on ivory inscriptions at the Ancient cosmopolitan port city of Ugarit (modern site Ras Shamra) in today's Northern Syria. Includes introduction, transliteration, list of abbreviations..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). 56, [2]pp (Text), 88 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. The Yale Babylonian Collection contains about ten thousand tablets. In this large collection, there is..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (19130. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii,1301-1416,[4]pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Part 7 of Assyrian and Babylonian Letters, containing the texts of 104 plates of Nos. 82-5-22, 105; 83-1-18, 45, 125; 80-7-19, 16; and Bu. 89-4-26, 4, reproduced in collotype. Pages unopened, as issued..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 4to, xxii,260pp. of typescript text with hieroglyphic examples. Including a 7-page bibliography. Blue buckram, gilt, cloth with some minor dampstain (?) rippling. More
Königsberg i. Pr. Buchdruckerei R. Leupold, 1905. Softcover. This work is very rare: OCLC only lists 2 libraries that have it. 8vo. 62pp. Original wrappers appear to be missing. Pages expertly stapled. Doctoral dissertation of Artur Kibat (1878-1961) in the field of linguistics. With resume on last page. The page before..... More
Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 164pp. Gray paper-covered boards with green cloth spine. Spine has been repaired with clear tape. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. Hinges starting. Browning to title page. Ex libris and signature of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic..... More
New Haven: Published for The Brooklyn Museum by the Yale University Press, 1953. Hardcover. 4to. xv,319,18pp. Gray mottled cloth with blue & gold cover label of "The Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences." Spine slightly sunned. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Signed by Harry M. Orlinsky, the famous..... More
NP: Karl John Krahnke, 1976. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xv, 281pp. Original black tape over gray wrappers. This study is concerned with linguistic relationships in the Central Dialect area of central Iran. In this area there is a group of so-called Central Dialects which has presented seemingly insurmountable problems for..... More
Leuven; Paris; Walpole: Peeters, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. XIV, 285, [3]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over red cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. The origin and early history of Targum Onqelos to the Pentateuch and Targum Jonathan to the Prophets have long been the object of lively..... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. 169pp. Rebound in boards with red, gilt, buckram spine strip. Original front wrapper (now loose) mounted on front board. Interior in very good condition. From the collection of Wolf Leslau. Wolf Leslau was undoubtedly the greatest Semiticist linguist of the past century, many would..... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. xvii, 373pp. Original wrappers. Minor rubbing along spine and edges. Wolf Leslau was a professor at UCLA and an expert on Ethiopian languages. This book entails a collection of articles in relation to Arabic loanwords in the Ethiopian language. Very good condition..... More