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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... More

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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. Jean-François Champollion le Jeune.

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... More

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1) 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. 2) Lexicon amharico-latinum, cum indice latino copioso inquirendis vocabulis amharicis in hoc opere contentis. 3) Grammatica Aethiopica: Ab ipso autore solicite revisa, & plurimis in locis correcta & aucta. Hiob Ludolf.

1) 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. 2) Lexicon amharico-latinum, cum indice latino copioso inquirendis vocabulis amharicis in hoc opere contentis. 3) Grammatica Aethiopica: Ab ipso autore solicite revisa, & plurimis in locis correcta & aucta.

Ludolf, Hiob

Frankfurt: Johannes David Zunnerus, 1699, 1698, 1702. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Folios. 3 volumes bound in one. (16) 663pp. (44), (2) 54pp.* (16) (10), 184pp. (8). Contemporary embossed vellum with gilt embossed decoration and black lettering to spine. Raised bands. All three works are ground-breaking standards, both for the... More

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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.

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. Luiz Caetano de Lima.

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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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 ibliotheca : 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. Thomae Cooperi, Thomas Cooper.

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 ibliotheca : 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;... More

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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). Antoine Fabre-d'Olivet.

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 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]. Jobi Ludolfi I. C., Hiob Ludolf.

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

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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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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J zyk polski w obozie koncentracyjnym (The Polish language of the concentration camp). W. adys aw Kuraszkiewicz.

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

Kuraszkiewicz, W adys aw

Lublin: K. U. L. 1947. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 46, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Written by W adys aw 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... More

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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.

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.

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

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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A Grammatical Analysis of Selections from The Hebrew Scriptures, with an Exercise in Hebrew Composition. Isaac Nordheimer, in collaboration, William W. Turner.

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. Accentuationis Hebraeae Institutione Methodica (1713) ... Iii. Vindiciis Sacrae Scripturae Hebraeae (1713). Matthiae Wasmuthi, Matthias Wasmuth, Henrico Opitio, Heinrich Opitz.

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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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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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... More

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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... More

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Leçons de Langue Éthiopienne

Marcel, J.J. (Jean Joseph), 1776-1854

Paris: Eberhart, Imprimeur du College Royal de France, 1819. Hardcover. 8vo. 24,4pp. Original blind-stamped wrappers stapled and bound in modern binding of paper-covered boards with cover plate and tan cloth spine. Discoloration to cover plate. Inside front board Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and... More

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Grammaire du Vieux Perse [Collection Linguistique, XXXIV]. Antoine Meillet, Emile Benveniste, Second edition revised.

Grammaire du Vieux Perse [Collection Linguistique, XXXIV]

Meillet, Antoine; Emile Benveniste (Second edition revised and enlarged by)

Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1931. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. Quarto. XXIII, [1], 266pp. Library blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. Originally published in 1915, Antoine Meillet's grammar of the Old Persian language (Grammaire du Vieux Perse) provides an exact... More

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Tossani Lexicon Hebraicum

Tossanus, Paul

London: William Ginger, 1765. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 176pp. Original calf. Gilt decorated spine. Title plate. Gilt decoration and title plate faded. Head and tail of spine chipped. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to edges. Abrasion and scuffing to boards. Name of previous owner written in ink to inside of... More

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The Consonant Clusters of Modern German One and Two Syllable Forms

Twaddell, W. F.

Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1936. First printing. Hardcover. Tall Quarto. 32, 556pp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Phonological study of German consonant clusters. Includes 32 index sheets and 556 charts with handwritten entries. Arrangement and interpretation is explained in detail on an introductory page. Binding rubbed... More

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A Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew / Milon ha-Lashon ha-Ivrit ha-Y'shenah ve-ha-Hadashah / Thesaurus Totius Hebraitatis et Veteris et Recentioris (Complete in 17 Volumes)

Ben-Yehuda, Eliezar

Jerusalem: "La'Am" Publishing House, ND. Hardcover. 17 large octavo vols. Mixed set consisting of mostly Half white leather binding over blue cloth covered boards with a few white cloth volumes. Gilt stamp facsimile of the authors signature on front cover of each volume. Raised bands on spines. Red border with... More

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