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Nieuw en volkomen woordenboek van konsten en weetenschappen: bevattende alle de takken der nuttige kennis, met naaukeurige beschryvingen, zo van de onderscheidenen machines, werktuigen, gereedschappen, figuuren, en ontwerpen dienende om dezelve op te helderen; als mede van de klassen, soorten, toebereidselen, en het gebruik van de voortbrengzels der natuur, het zy dieren, planten, mineraalen, aardgewassen, of vochten; mitsgaders de koningkryken, provintien, steden, dorpen, en andere merkwaardige plaatzen dor de geheele waereld. 10 Vols.

Buys, Egbert

Amsterdam: Steven Jacobus Baalde, 1769–1778. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Ca. 8000pp. Published with 282 plates, ours with 267, one folding chart. Original half calf over marbled boards with gilt ruling and lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece missing. This extraordinary and only edition of the woordenboek (encyclopedia), still valued for its...

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Précis du Système Hiéroglyphique des Anciens Égyptiens ou Recherches sur les élémens premiers de cette écriture sacrée, sur leurs diverses combinaisons, et sur les rapports de ce système avec les autres méthodes graphiques égyptiennes

Champollion le Jeune, Jean-François

Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6"). XVI, 410pp. Modern half black morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands. Ribbon marker. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title vignette. First Edition of Champollion's celebrated compendium of the hieroglyphic system, a foundational text of modern Egyptology. In...

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Hesychiou Lexikon. Hesychii Lexicon, cum notis doctorum virorum integris, vel editis antehac, nunc auctis & emendatis, Hadr. Junii, Henr. Stephani, Jos. Scaligeri etc., vel ineditis Henr. Valesii, Dan. Heinsii, Phil. Jac. Maussaci etc., in primis Ludolphi Kusteri, Tiber. Hemsterhusii etc., praeter selectas Jo. Jensii, Dan. Wilh. Trilleri etc., ex autographis partim recensuit, partim nunc primum edidit, suasque animadversiones perpetuas adjecit Joannes Alberti cum ejusdem prolegomenis, et adparatu hesychiano.

Hysechius of Alexandria

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, et Filium, 1746-1766. Hardcover. Large folio. 2 volumes. Ex Libris "Herbert Wilson Greene", signature of same in both vols. on free front endpaper, date 1889. [10], xl, [76], engraved frontispiece of Johannes Alberti "F. Decker, pinx - 1742. Exudit Samuel Luchtmans. I. Houbraken sculps...

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Grammatica Italiana, e Arte para Aprender a lingua Italiana por meyo da Lingua Portugueza

de Lima, D. Luiz Caetano

Lisbon: Joseph da Costa Coimbra, 1756. Hardcover. 8vo. 428pp. Original full calf with floral decorations stamped in gold on spine. Speckled page edges, as issued. Ornamental woodcut on title-page. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Free front endpaper missing. Water staining on top right margin starting on page 228 through rear...

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Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, tam accurate congestus, ut nihil penè in eo desyderavi possit, quod vel Latinè complectatur amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglicè, toties aucta Eliotae B̆ibliotheca : opera & indistria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis ; Quid fructus ex hoc Thesauro studiosi possint excerpere, & quam rationem secutus author sit in Vocabulorum interpretatione & dispositione, post epistolam demonstratur ; Accessit Dictionarium historicum & poëticum propris vocabula Virorum, Mulierum, Sectsrum, Populorum, Vrbium, Montium & caeterorum locorum complectens, & in his iucundißimas ; Thesaurus linguae et Britannicae & omnium cognitione dignißimas historias

Cooperi, Thomae (Thomas Cooper)

Londini (London): NP, 1584. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1/2"). Five preliminary leaves (Title, Epistola, Annotationes, Ad lectorem), followed by 780 leaves numbered: A.1-6; B.1-6; C.1-6; D.1-6; E.1-6; F.1-6; G.1-6; H.1-6; I.1-6; K.1-6; L.1-6; M.1-6; N.1-6; O.1-6; P.1-6; Q.1-6; R.1-6; S.1-6; T.1-6; V.1-6; X.1-6; Y.1-6; Aa.1-6; Bb.1-6;.....

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La Langue Hebraïque restituée, et le véritable sens des mots hébreux rétabli et prouvé par leur analyse radicale. 2-volume set (complete)

Fabre-d'Olivet, Antoine (1767-1825)

Paris: Chez l'Auteur; Barrois, l'Ainé; Eberhart, 1815-16. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLVIII, 197, 138, 348, [2]pp. Uncut. Two volumes in marbled-paper covered slipcases. Full green morocco with gold tooled decoration on each board, spine and along edges. Gilt lettering on spines. Raised bands. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in...

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[Ethiopic text:] Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum ex omnibus libris impressis, nonnullisque manuscriptis collectum; et cum docto quodam Aethiope relectum. Accessit authoris Grammatica, cum aliis nonnullis, quorum catalogum sequens pagina exhibebit. [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF WOLF LESLAU]

Ludolfi I. C., Jobi (Hiob Ludolf)

London: Thomam Roycroft, 1661. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [16], 560 col. (280pp), [40]pp (Index). 3/4 leather over cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Title-page in red and black lettering. Engraved vignette on additional title-page. Decorative headpieces and initials. Hiob Ludolf...

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Commentarii linguae Graecae, Gulielmo Budaeo, consiliario Regio, supplicúmque libelloru[m] in Regia magistro, auctore. Ab eodem accuratè recogniti, atque amplius tertia parte aucti [FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF JOHANN GOTTFRIED SCHWEIGHÄUSER*]

Budaeo, Gulielmo (Guillaume Budé)

Parisii (Paris): Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii (Robert Estienne), 1548. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. Folio (13 3/4 x 10"). 1109, [1], [42]pp. (Signature: a-z8, A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, Aaa-Ccc8). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden panels. Raised bands. Early 19th-century gold-lettered leather title label to spine. Professor Johann...

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The One Primeval Language traced experimentally through Ancient Inscriptions in Alphabetic Characters of Lost Powers From the Four Continents. 3 Vols.

Forster, Rev. Charles

London: Richard Bentley, 1851-1854. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xvi, 182pp., 6 fold-outs, vi, (6) 300pp., 12 fold-outs,1 sleeve with fold-out. Dark green cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt illustration with reverse lettering on front, gilt lettering and blind-stamped ruling on spines, with additional sleeve with gilt lettering on cover...

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大漢和辞典 Dai Kanwa Jiten (Japanese Dictionary of Kanji) aka "The Great Chinese–Japanese Dictionary" [COMPLETE IN 13 VOLS.]

諸橋轍次 Morohashi, Tetsuji (ed.)

Tokyo: 大修館書店 (Taishukan Shoten), 1955-1960. First edition. Hardcover. Octavos. 13,757pp. (Vols.1-12) + 1101pp. (Index). Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and blue labels on the spines. Red ribbon markers. The monumental work is considered the definitive Japanese dictionary of Kanji (Chinese characters) and is the largest and most comprehensive ever...

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Yü Yen Tzu Erh Chi: A Progressive Course Designed to Assist the Student of Colloquial Chinese as Spoken in the Capital and the Metropolitan Department (Volume 1, Chinese Text and 2, English Text)

Wase, Thomas Francis and Walter Caine Hillier

London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1886. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. Vol. 1: xxviii, 349 pp. + Errata. Vol. 2: 523 pp. Green cloth wrapped boards with decorative Oriental motif in black on front cover. Gold lettering in Chinese on front covers, gold lettering in English on spines. Thick brown...

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Język polski w obozie koncentracyjnym (The Polish language of the concentration camp)

Kuraszkiewicz, Władysław

Lublin: K. U. L., 1947. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 46, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Written by Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (1905-1997), a renown Polish linguist who was interned at Auschwitz during the Nazi-occupation of Poland, this rare and unusual work relates to the linguistic dehumanization of concentration camp inmates. "Język polski.....

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Lexicon chaldaicum, talmudicum et rabbinicum : in quo omnes voces ... fideliter explicantur ... passim etiam suis locis Hebraeorum et Chaldaeorum proverbia, apothegmata ... ex propriis ipsorum libris producuntur & explanantur ... / opus XXX. annorum, nunc demum post patris obitum ex ipsius autographo ... in lucem editum a Johanne Buxtorfio filio ; cum indice vocum Latinarum & locorum N.T. illustratorum [Lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait and the engraved title]

Buxtorfii, Johannis (Johannes Buxtorf)

Basileae (Basel): Ludovici König, 1640. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (15 1/2 x 10 1/4"). [12], 2680 columns (1440pp), [64]pp (Index). Modern full brown morocco, with gilt-lettered leather label on spine. Raised bands. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Begun by Johannes Buxtorf in 1609, and completed by his son in 1639...

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Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta Quotquot Supersunt Edita et Inedita ad Autographorum Oprimorumque Exemplorum Fidem Edidit Additisque De Scriptura et Lingua Phoenicum Commentariis (1837) + De Inscriptione Phoenicio-Graeca in Cyrenaica (1825). 2 vols. bound in one.

Gesenius.

Leipzig; Halae: Vogel; In Libraria Rengeriana, 1837-1825. Hardcover. Quarto. xxxviii, 481pp, 48 leaves of plates, 30 pp. Three-quarter leather with raised bands over cloth boards, marbled endpapers. Spine and edges slightly worn, part 3 has some foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Forty-eight plates of lithographic illustrations, plus one fold-out...

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The Iconographic Encyclopedia of the Arts and Sciences. 7 Vols.

n/a

Prague: F.A. Brockhaus, 1886. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 420, Original tan leather with gilt lettering on red and black bands of spine. Decorative endpapers. Frontispieces in all seven volumes. Translated from the German Bilder-Atlas, revised and enlarged by eminent American specialists. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 600 steel, wood and...

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The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary

Phillips, Edward; John Kersey (eds.)

London: J.Phillips, Rhodes, J. Taylor, 1706. Sixth edition. Hardcover. Small folio. Unpaginated. 711 pages. Rebound in modern 3/4 red morocco with gilt-stamped ruling and motifs, over marbled paper boards. Spine with gilt lettering, ruling and raised bands. Edges of the book block in red. Full page copperplate-engraved frontispiece. This work...

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Lexicon Thucydideum

Betant, Elie Ami

Geneva: E. Carey; Kessmann, Libraire, 1857. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. 472pp. 522pp. Green cloth over marbled boards. Some age wearing throughout binding. Corners bumped and worn. Vol.I is lacking title page. Sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text. This is a reprint from the original edition which was published between 1843-1847...

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Hamenorah, Vol. 1-10; Fortnightly periodical in Hebrew (with English Notes) for students of the spoken language

NA

Berlin, Wien: Menorah, 1919-1921. Hardcover. Octavo. 195pp. Red cloth. Contains vol. 1(1-8),vol. 2-10(no. 9-17 all published?). The Hamenorah periodical, published in Berlin and Vienna, was a semimonthly journal in Hebrew (with English Notes) for students of the spoken language. Contains Hebrew exercises, stories, photographs, sheet music and advertisements. Includes photographs.....

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A Grammatical Analysis of Selections from The Hebrew Scriptures, with an Exercise in Hebrew Composition

Nordheimer, Isaac (in collaboration with William W. Turner)

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. xii,148pp. Half cloth over paper-covered boards. "A Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language" by the same author preceded this work. Isaac Nordheimer (1809-1842) was a German-Jewish author. After emigrating to America in 1835 he became a professor of Hebrew...

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Hebraismus Facilitati & Integritati Suae Restitutus: I. Nova Grammatica (1714) ... Ii. Accentuationis Hebraeae Institutione Methodica (1713) ... Iii. Vindiciis Sacrae Scripturae Hebraeae (1713) ...

Wasmuthi, Matthiae (Matthias Wasmuth); Henrico Opitio (Heinrich Opitz) (Ed.)

Lipsiae & Francofurti (Leipzig and Francfort): Joh. Herebordi Klosii, 1713-1714. Later edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/4 x 6 3/4"). [22], [2], 279, [1]pp; 199, [1]pp; 340pp. Contemporary sheepskin, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. All paper edges red. Engraved frontispiece. General title in red and...

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Etymologiae Aegyptiacae

Rossii, Ignatii (Ignazio Rossi)

Romae (Rome): NP, 1808. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/2"). VII, [1], 368pp (Text), 8pp (Appendix), [2]pp (Errata). Original full vellum with gold lettered leather title label on spine. All paper edges red. Engraved title vignette. Fifteen years before the decipherment of the hieroglyphs by Jean-François...

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Tractatus stigmologicus, hebræo-biblicus: quo Accentuum Hebræorum doctrina traditur, variusque eorum, in explanada S. Scriptura, usus exponitur

Boston Thomae (Thomas Boston) (Text by); Davidis Millii (David Mill) (Preface by)

Amstelaedami (Amsterdam): Apud J. Weststenium & G. Smith, 1738. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/8 x 8"). [16], 220pp. Original full calf rebacked with modern olive cloth. Title page in red and black lettering. Title vignette. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Dedication page to Sir Richard Ellys ornated with a....

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Old Hieratic Paleography

Goedicke, Hans

Baltimore: Halgo, Inc, 1988. First edition. Softcover. Elephant folio. 15x12". (xxiv) 69 double pp. + 3 single pp. (total of 141 pages). White glossy printed wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. The work is a primarily visual/illustrated study of the relationship between Hieroglyphic forms and their...

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Sefer Si'ach Yitzhaq

Isaac ben Samuel

Basel: Azeleah, 1627. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 68 leafs. 3/4 leather over black paper covered boards. String ties. Printed on high quality, thick cotton rag. Illustrated title page. Early book on Hebrew Grammar and Language. Covers and Spine are worn. Hinges starting. Abrasions on cover. Back slip is chipped. Inscriptions...

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Grammar of the Amharic Language

Isenberg, Charles William

London: Printed for the Church Missionary Society, 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. [8],184pp. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA to inside of front board. Some age yellowing to pages. One fold-out text...

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