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
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
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
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
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
Andover: Flagg & Gould, 1828. Third edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 3 works bound in one. 1) Moses, Stuart. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language. viii,240pp. Third edition. 1828. 2) Moses, Stuart. A Hebrew Chrestomathy Designed as the First Volume of a Course of Hebrew Study. viii,243pp. 3) A Manual Hebrew and... More
Novi Devohr: Johan Anton Kriger, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 59 leaves. Heavy paper boards, chipped at corners on front cover. Judah Loeb Margolioth (1747-1811) a rabbi and a preacher, was one of the precursors of the Jewish Enlightenment movement in Eastern Europe. His books give expression to the mood... More
Florence/ Firenze: Stamperia Bonducciana, 1787. Softcover. 8vo. 166pp. Wrappers. Page edges untrimmed. Title vignette. Posted pasted onto inside of front wrappper. Stuudents' grammar of Hebrew, by R. Mori, lecturer of Oriental languages at the Florence seminary. [Steinschneider 1347]. Age wear to wrappers. Sporadic foxing to inside. Largely very clean and... More
NP (Leiden): NP (E J. Brill), No date (1898). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 831pp. Rebound in blue library buckram with gilt lettering on spine with title page missing. Elaborate account of the problems with Arabic syntax. Born Salomon Reckendorf he studied Semitic languages at the University in Straßburg and... More
Leipzig: Sumtibus Jo. Ambros. Bathii, 1818. Hardcover. 8vo. 448 pp. Black boards. Latin-Arabic grammar book. Corners bumped. Spine slightly cocked. Edges worn. Title label no longer legible and spine rubbed. Top joint cracked, with ropes showing, one of which is broken. Middle joint beginning to crack, and bottom joint holding... More
Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. XX, 908 pp. Leather wrapped marbled boards. Includes bibliographical references and index. Back strip missing, but binding still firm due to quality. Scarce first edition of this monumental and influential work. In German. Book is in fair condition, interior is... More
Edinburgh: Printed for J. Dickson, P. Hill, and W. Laing, 1794. Second edition, greatly enlarged. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvii,404pp. Gray buckram covered boards. Cloth has been tied-down to inside of boards. Raised bands. Age wearing throughout binding. Scuffing, wear and staining to boards. Discoloration to spine. Page edges untrimmed. Sporadic foxing... More
Bonn-Leipzig: Kurt Schroeder, 1920. Hardcover. 4to. 147 pp. Three-quarter cloth over marbled paper boards.Front and back boards are scuffed and rubbed, otherwise good. Scarce Gypsy-Arabic word list and grammar. More
Strassburg: Karl J. Trubner, 1893 & 1896. Hardcover. 3 volumes. xix,332pp. 352pp. xvi,353-663pp. Rebound. Vol. I and II. in three-quarter dark blue cloth over black cloth. Handwritten titles on tan paste-down on spine. Scuffing, rubbing and abrasions to binding. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Wear to edges. Decorated... More
Toronto: Anglican Church of Canada, 1962. Revised. Softcover. Quarto. (15) 25 Units, unpaginated. Original yellow illustrated wrappers with brown lettering on cover. Revision and expansion of the trial material prepared for the Department of Missions of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Course is based on the concept of language... More
Furth: Fulda and Zumfdorffer, 1839. Hardcover. 8vo. 52 pages. Rebound? in quarter cloth black paper covered boards. A Hebrew grammar book discussing the roles of the letters. Ibn Ezra is considered the father of Hebrew grammar, even though he did not create anything new, he collected the conclusions of early... More
Vienna: K.k. Universitätsbuchhhandlung Georg Szelinski, 1906. Softcover. 4to. 223pp. Illustrated wrappers. Page edges untrimmed. Many pages unopened. Very extensive work on the grammar of Amharic [the main Ethiopian language], with sectionsbs and pronouns, syntax and aphorism. With German-Amharic dictionary at end. Pevious owner stamp 'Charles A. Muses' at free front... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. v, 181pp. Original black cloth. A doctoral dissertation on Sundanese linguistics spoken by approximately 14 million people in the Pasundan region of West Java. The purpose of this dissertation is to present and analysis of the phonological and morphological systems... More
Rome: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, 1978. Softcover. 2 volumes. 4to. xxi, 243pp. xi, 89pp. Gray wrappers with black lettering to front wrappers and spines. Top and Forepage edges untrimmed. Some pages unopened. Fascinating work on the grammar of the language of Gudea. Second volume is supplementary volume. Gudea was a ruler... More
Frankfurt: NP, 1800. Eighteenth edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. 8vo. 592pp. Marbled boards. Printed on high quality cotton rag. Work on French grammar, by renowned German scholar of linguistics, Johann Valentin Meidinger (see below). This seminal work on French grammar was first published in 1783 by the author... More
Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique, 1938. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix. 308pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine slightly sunned. Bookplate of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Ethiopian language and former Professor at UCLA. Text in French and Ethiopian. In very good condition. More
Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1955. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 150, 44pp. Original printed wrappers. Scarce grammar of the Kabuli, a persian language spoken in afghanistan. Upper and lower edges warped. Covers and pages age-toned throughout. Text in French. Wrappers and interior in overall fair condition. More
Moscow: Izdanie Bratiev Salaievykh, (1874). Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 82pp. Quarter leather over green paper-covered boards. Russian grammar and syntax textbook, exhaustively detailing orthography, sentence structure and grammar rules, with ample examples. Designed for use in "the third grade of intermediate educational institutions" (secondary school). Created by Aleksandr Ivanovich Kirpichnikov... More
Halle im Magdeburgischen: im Verlag der Waysenhausischen Buchhandlung, 1745. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [16], 288pp (Text in German), [24]pp (Text in Hebrew). Original full vellum. All edges red. Title page in red and black lettering. Publisher's engraved vignette on title. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Originally published in 1702, Johann... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1954. Hardcover. 4to. iv, 146pp. Original black cloth. A doctoral dissertation on Farsi linguistics. Cover stained and slightly bowed. Signed by member of the dissertation committee on front free endpaper. Overall in good condition. More