Vienna: Michael Zimmermann, 1555. First edition. Small quarto: A-G4 (= 28 unnumbered leaves; text reads from right to left). Title in red and black; text in Syriac (with vocalized Hebrew and Latin transliteration) and Latin, mostly formatted in two columns per page; full page woodcut armorial device at recto of..... More
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
Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1624. First edition. Two parts, small quarto. (a)-(b)4 A-2T4 (= 176 leaves). [16], 332 [i.e. 330, pp. 145-146 omitted from pagination; p. 149 mis-numbered 145, 153 as 149], [5, elenchus], [1, blank]pp. “Oratio de... tetragrammato” with caption title. Contemporary vellum; manuscript title at spine; remains of old..... More
Halle: Waysen-Hause, 1711. Octavo. [16], 124, [10]pp. Two folding tables. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Light wear at extremities, contemporary inscription at front endleaf, printed name plate at front pastedown, manuscript library entry and faint stamp at title. Text evenly toned, light dampstain at lower margin. A good, complete..... 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
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
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1545. Editio princeps. Quarto. 216, [51] pp. Title in Greek and Latin, with woodcut printer's device. Contemporary limp vellum. Text light embrowned throughout. First two leaves holding by a single thread, else a good, clean copy, with ample margins. Editio princeps of this Byzantine elementary grammatical manual..... More
Kiel: Gottfried Liebezeit, 1696. Small quarto. [8], 196pp. Folding table and two folding paradigm charts. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, edges stained blue, early library label at spine, contemporary inscription and faint library stamps at title, board edges worn, otherwise a very good copy, with clean marbled covers and..... More
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
Leiden: Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1767. Second Schultens edition. Three parts, quarto. a-r4 s2 t4 (-t4) A-4P4 (= 409 leaves). [14], cxxxii, 301, [302]-603, [1, blank], [68, indices]pp. Engraved printer’s device at title, heraldic cartouche at dedication; woodcut head- and tail-pieces, lettrines; divisional titles at 2C3 and 2P4, register continuous..... 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
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
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
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
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
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
New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1945-1948. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. 203,(1);(127)-139pp. Green cloth, original offprint wrappers bound in. Spine strip with hand lettered blue/gray binders tape. Bookplate of Wolf Leslau on front pastedown. Wrappers lightly age toned. Two offprints from The Journal of the American Oriental Society: v...... 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