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
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1907. Softcover. 8vo. x, 114pp. Original wrappers. Some creasing, discoloration and staining to wraps. No. VIII of "Semitic Study Series" edited by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Morris Jastrow Jr. Text in English and Arabic. Wraps in good, interior in very good condition. More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. 184pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. In three parts: 1) A list of more than 500 words relating to parts of body, terms of relationship, material and spiritual culture, the numerals, some adjectives and some verbs. 2) Few grammatical..... More
Washington DC: American Council of Learned Societies, 1960. Revised. Softcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 295, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) dated 1960 on upper-half title. This remarkable introduction to spoken Vietnamese is based on the Southern (Saigon) dialect with explanation of Northern (Hanoi) differences. Moderate sunning..... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1912. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. XII, 128pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. From the collection of Herbert H. Paper* dated Feb. 1951 on title page. Scarce monograph on the Frahang-i Pahlavîg, a dictionary of (mostly) Aramaic ideograms with Middle..... More
Leiden/Köln: E.J. Brill, 1958. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 244pp. Original green wrappers. Small residue of price sticker on cover and spine. Spine sunned. Slight creasing to outer edges of wrappers. Pages unopened. Part of a series "Handbuch der Orientalistik." Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten. Vierter Band: Iranistik..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 219pp. Red library buckram, gilt. Original wrappers bound in. A fine copy. "This is the second volume in the series Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. As stated in the introduction to the first volume, the purpose of the series..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. IX, [1],236pp. Original green wrappers, spine lightly sunned. "This is the third volume in the series Ethiopians Speak...the purpose of this series is twofold: first, to present to the social scientist in general, and to the student in things Ethiopic..... 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 of..... More
Wien; New York: Springer, 1970. Third edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVI, [2], 482, XVI, [2], 896pp. Original printed wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spines. Authorative manual of voice and speech therapy in 2 volumes. The first volume focusing on the voice and its disorders, the second volume on..... More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. x,288pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Some punctures on front and back board. Minor staining and scuffing to boards. Head and tail slightly bumped. Two small stamps and name of previous owner on free front..... More
Roma: Casa Editrice A. Mondadori Collezione Diretta da Carlo Conti Rossini. Accademio D'Italia, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 254pp. Rebound. Red cloth with title in gold on spine. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA to inside of front board. Age..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional, 1959. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 263pp. Original printed wrappers. First issue of this publication devoted to investigate, record, and describe the indigenous languages of Brazil. This volume contains five articles prepared by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, concerning Indian languages outside Brazil but which are..... More
Washington DC: Foreign Service Institute, 1965. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 312 (30)pp. Manila folder with handwritten title on cover with hole-punched mimeographed paper bound onto metal clasps. Experimental language course assuming that students can hear sounds and perceive structures best without knowing the meaning, are unable to thrive for long..... More