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Polygraphiae Libri Sex, Ioannis Trithemii Abbatis Peapolitani, Quondam Spanheimensis, ad Maximilianum Caesarem [MISSING THE FINAL CLAVIS POLYGRAPHIAE SECTION]

Trithemius, Johannes; Hans Springinklee (title page illus.)

[Basel]*: Printed by [Michael Furter and Adam Petri for] Johannes Haselberger, 1518. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 8 x 11 1/4". [243 double-sided unpaginated leaves (including the title leaf)]. 243 of 270 leaves present. Period calf binding with gilt-stamped lettering on a light brown leather label on the spine. Phenomenal..... More

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Tsemah David/ Dittionario Novo Hebraico, Molto Copioso, Dechiarato in Tre Lingue, con Bellissime Annotationi, e con L'indice Latino, e Volgare, de Tutti li Suoi Significati/ Lexicon Novum Haebraicum; Locupletissimum Quantum Nunquam Antea, Triplici Lingua Perspicuè Explanatum [HEBREW-LATIN-ITALIAN DICTIONARY]

de Pomis, David ben Isaac

[Venice]: Apud Ioannem de Gara (Giovanni di Gara), 1587. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Paginated double sided leaves throughout: 5, [1], 238, 5-62 leaves. Period dark brown mottled leather boards with gilt lettering over a brown label on the spine. Raised bands. Speckled edges of the book block in red..... More

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Dutch Encyclopedia. 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..... More

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Tsemah David/ Dittionario Novo Hebraico, Molto Copioso, Dechiarato in Tre Lingue, con Bellissime Annotationi, e con L'indice Latino, e Volgare, de Tutti li Suoi Significati/ Lexicon Novum Haebraicum; Locupletissimum Quantum Nunquam Antea, Triplici Lingua Perspicuè Explanatum [HEBREW-LATIN-ITALIAN DICTIONARY]

de Pomis, David ben Isaac

[Venice]: Apud Ioannem de Gara (Giovanni di Gara), 1587. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Paginated double sided leaves throughout: 5, [1], 5-62, 238 leaves. Recased in its original period vellum binding, and reinforced with new endpapers. Introductory text in Latin dedicates the book to Pope Sixtus V, and includes his..... More

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Hesychiou Lexikon. Hesychii Lexicon, cum notis doctorum virorum integris, vel editis antehac,...

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..... More

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

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..... More

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Zargon Mowy Przestepcow, "Blatna Muzyka". Ogolny Zbiór Slow Gwary Zlodziejskiej. (Criminal Jargon, "Blatna Musika". A General Collection of the Thieves' Dialect.

Ludwikowski, Wiktor (Wiktor Wilczyński); Henryk Walczak (compiled by)

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

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Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, tam accurate congestus, ut nihil penè in eo desyderavi...

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 (Dictionary Elizabethan - Shakespeare)

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;..... More

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La Langue Hebraïque restituée, et le véritable sens des mots hébreux rétabli et prouvé par...

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..... More

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Ethiopic text:] Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum ex omnibus libris impressis, nonnullisque manuscriptis...

[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..... More

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Commentarii linguae Graecae, Gulielmo Budaeo, consiliario Regio, supplicúmque libelloru[m] in...

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..... More

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The One Primeval Language traced experimentally through Ancient Inscriptions in Alphabetic...

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..... More

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

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..... More

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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..... More

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

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..... More

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Syriasmus Facilitati & Integritati suae Restitutus, Simulqve Hebraismo et Chaldaismo Harmonicus, Ac Regulis Qvinqvaginta absolutus. Exemplis & Singularibus qvibusvis Versionis Syriacae Vet. & Novi Test. summo studio annotatis.

Opitz, Heinrich

Leipzig: Johann Caspar Meyer, 1691. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 4 leaves, 268pp., 32 leaves, 3 folding tables. Contemporary vellum-backed boards with lettering on spine. Red edges. Title page in Syriac and Latin, printed in red and black with black double border. Historiated headpieces, decorative initials. Grammar of the Syriac language..... More

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Lexicon chaldaicum, talmudicum et rabbinicum : in quo omnes voces ... fideliter explicantur ......

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..... More

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Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta Quotquot Supersunt Edita et Inedita ad Autographorum...

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..... More

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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..... More

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Lexicon Thucydideum. Elie Ami Betant

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..... More

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

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..... More

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Hebraismus Facilitati & Integritati Suae Restitutus: I. Nova Grammatica (1714) ... Ii....

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..... More

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La Langue Hebraïque restituée, et le véritable sens des mots hébreux rétabli et prouvé par leur analyse radicale. (The Hebrew Language restored, and the true meaning of the Hebrew words, restored and proven by their radical analysis) 2-volume set (complete)

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

Paris: Chez l'Auteur; Barrois, l'Ainé; Eberhart, 1815-16. First edition Ex-Library. Hardcover. Quarto. xlviii, 197, 138, 345 (2)pp. Bound in three-quarter black leather over marbled boards with giltlettering on spine; raised bands. Speckeled edges. Two volumes bound in one, retaining both title pages, containing: an introductive dissertation on the origin of..... More

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Etymologiae Aegyptiacae. Ignatii Rossii, Ignazio Rossi

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..... More

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Tractatus stigmologicus, hebræo-biblicus: quo Accentuum Hebræorum doctrina traditur, variusque...

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...... More

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