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

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

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

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

Oxonii (Oxford); Oxford: E typographeo Clarendoniano (The Clarendon Press); At The Clarendon Press, 1864 (Vol. 1) 1905 (Vol. 2). First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 9"). viii, 203-578pp (Vol. 1); xxvi, 350pp (Vol. 2). Later full tan cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Today, the Bodleian Library has..... More

Parisiis (Paris): Typographia Regia (Imprimerie Royale), 1697. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. [18], CII, 1050 double columns (525pp). Original full calf with gold-tooling and lettering on spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Engraved vignette on title page. Decorative headpiece and initials. Louis Thomassin, the famed French theologian and Oratorian, was..... More

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1968. Later edition. Softcover. Quarto (10 3/4 x 7 1/4"). [2], vi, [4], 194, viii, 195-530pp (Vol. I./II.); [2], vi, [2], 531-618, viii, 619-850pp (Vol. III./IV.); [2], xxii, [2], 851-1234, xvi, 1235-1578pp (Vol. V./VI.). Original printed wrappers.Originally published between 1883 and 1891, Karl Heinrich Brugsch's..... More