Vienna: Michael Zimmermann, 1555/1556. First edition. Small quarto: A-G4 (= 28 unnumbered leaves). Later light weight rustica boards, with exposed cords. Faint foxing and dust soiling about the edges, but still a fine, crisp copy, uncut and unopened.First edition of this Syriac alphabet and syllabary (15pp.), accompanied by a selection..... More

Basel: Robert Winter, 1541-1542. First Latin Edition. Sammelband of two works, quarto. 479, [1, blank], [14, index, colophon and device], [2, blank]; 26, [20, index, colophon, and device], [2, blank]pp. Fine woodcut printer’s device depicting Athena at verso final index leaf in both works; printed marginalia and woodcut lettrines throughout..... More

Lyon: Sebastien Gryphius, 1529. First edition. Folio. [16]ff., 7152 [i.e., 2752] col., [2]ff. Woodcut historiated title border and large historiated initial at first page of the dedication; Hebrew lettrines at each section; printed marginalia; printer’s device at colophon. Text in two columns. Modern leatherette (laminated over an earlier binding with..... More

Jena and Halle: various, 1704. Sammelband of six works published between 1704 and 1722, small octavo. [14], 178; 32, 236; [46], 129, [1 emendanda]; [12], 118, [29 index], [1 blank]; [10], 92; [16], 124, [12 index and addenda]pp. Last work on the Hebrew accents with 2 folding tables. Contemporary vellum..... More

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..... More

Warsaw: Ksiegarni F. Hoesicka/ Ksiegarnia Hösicka, 1922 (1923)*. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. (vi) [2] 11-126pp. [2]. Original grey-green photo-illustrated wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. This obscure and intriguing work offers a comprehensive compiled dictionary of hundred of words of jargon used by Polish criminals and prison inmates..... More

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More

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..... More