Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1988. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. xlv. 503pp. In English, with insertions in Semitic, Cushitic and Ethiopian languages. Two articles in French and one in German. In very good condition. Blue wrappers with white lettering to front wrapper and spine. Photographic frontispiece, portraying Leslau. Bottom of front wrapper..... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 105pp. Rebound in boards with red buckram, gilt, spine strip. Original wrappers lacking. "Amharic is a Semitic language. Together with Geez, Tigre, Tigrinya in the north, and Gurage, Harari, Agrobba and Gafat in the south, it belongs to the Semitic language family..... More
Francofurti ad Moenum (Frankfurt am Main): Impressit Martinus Jacquetus, 1698. Photocopy. Hardcover. Quarto. [7], 59pp. Brown cloth over paper covered boards with black lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Photocopy edition of this fascinating work being one of the earliest european studies of amharic. It..... More
American University of Beirut, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv,179pp. Original textured cream buckram with brown lettering on spine in original dustjacket. "The French Expedition to the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos, modern Jebel, from 1928 to 1932 discovered a group of nine texts carved in stone or stamped on..... More
[Ann Arbor]: The University of Michigan, 1962. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. IV, 274pp. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover. This work is intended to provide a graded introduction to the reading of Pashto texts, and not only material for classroom use but also for self-study. The Reader..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1887. Paperback. 8vo. v, 116 pp. Gray paper cover. Pages uncut at top edge. Back cover detached, but present. Chipping to page edges. Else, in good condition. More
Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1864. Hardcover. 8vo. vi, 550pp. 3/4 black leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Essays on classical philology and literaure written by renowned 19th century German philologist and antiquarian (see below). Front board loose but present, with spine starting to detach..... More
Philadelphia: Conat Press. Academy Book Room, 1922. Hardcover. 8vo. 122pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed, corners rubbed. Minor scuffing and staining to boards. Stamps of Rabbi Saul B. Appelbaum on free front endpaper. "There has long been..... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (2) vii, 229pp. Self-bound black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "The phonological changes responsible for the development of Old Persian and Avestan consonants are the subject of this study. An inventory of Proto-Indo-European phonological segments is taken for granted..... More
Malibu: Undena publications, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. vii, 87pp., 131 plates. Original illustrated red buckram with black lettering on cover and spine. Bibliotheca Mesopotamica: Primary sources and interpretive analysis for the study of Mesopotamian civilization and its influences from late prehistory to the end of the cuneiform tradition, volume..... More
Philadelphia: Published for the American Schools of Oriental Research by the University of Pennsylvania, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 321-427pp. Half cloth over gray paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Wear to bottom front corner. Water stain to upper part..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. xx,49,118pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Some scuffing and discoloration to boards. Signature of previous owner to free front endpaper. Volume XIV of Harvard Semitic Series. Texts from excavations at Nuzi conducted by the Semitic Museum and the..... More
Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 1982. Softcover. 8vo. 86pp. Original wrappers. Fine. "Tigre is a Semitic Ethiopian language spoken in the eastern, western and northern lowlands of Eritrea, including the Massawa region and the Dahlak islands in the east, and up to the Kassala province and in the border regions..... More
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 412pp. Original printed paper covered boards. The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Betanure, which has hitherto remained unattested, is among the rarest and most seriously endangered varieties of Aramaic spoken at the present time. One of the most archaizing Jewish Neo-Aramaic varieties and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). 48pp (Text), 74 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. In this volume, Dr. Tremayne has published 198 texts dating from the reigns of the first..... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. xvii, 373pp. Original wrappers. This book entails a collection of articles in relation to Arabic loanwords in the Ethiopian language. Very good condition. From the collection of Wolf Leslau. Wolf Leslau was undoubtedly the greatest Semiticist linguist of the past century, many..... More
Ankara: Ministry of Education; Directorate of Publications; Printed Education Materials Development Center, ND (ca 1960). First edition. Softcover. Oblong folio. 220pp. Original half black cloth over printed wrappers. This report of a study by the staff of the Georgetown University Language Program in Ankara, Turkey, was designed to provide information..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukranian Research Institute Sources and Documents Series, 1978. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. x. 179pp. Embossed black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Slight discoloration to bottom edge and some scuffing on boards. Chipping, some discoloration and minor scuffing to dj. Head and tail of dj..... More
Warschau: Kauffmann, 1908. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 329, 84pp. Original brown leatherette with gilt lettering on covers and spine. Brown endpapers. Title pages printed in red and black, in Hebrew and German. More than 4,000 Jewish idioms used in Russia, Poland and Galicia, in..... More
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, 304, [2]pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. The present work is an edition of the 145 Khotanese fragments so far identified as belonging to the Buddhist text Sanghatasutra. They are compared with a text..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 x 9 1/2"). xi, [1], 19, [1]pp (Text), 126 leaves (Plates). Original half blue cloth over grey cloth, with gold lettering to spine. A very rich and various feast is presented to students of the Sumerian and Akkadian vocabularies..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 x 9 1/2"). ix, [1], 7, [1]pp (Text), 109 leaves (Plates). Original half blue cloth over grey cloth, with gold lettering to spine. This volume contains a large number of texts from the Nippur excavations, now in the University..... More
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 3/4"). 26, [2]pp (Text), 76 leaves (Plates). Modern 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. The 200 letters contained in this volume were found at Warka, the ruins of which..... More
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXII, 278, [2]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Fascinating work in which the author embraces the time before the Christian era, and a few centuries in the latter. The choice affords an opportunity to exhibit and examine..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1967). Softcover. 4to. x,194pp. Original wrappers. Wraps slightly sunned. Minor rubbing to parts of edges and along spine. "The Basic Course follows the audio-lingual approach in teaching the phonology, basic structure, and useful vocabulary of the speech of the educated native of Sulaimania..... More