Jedo (Tokyo): Daigaku Nanko, 1870. First printing. Softcover. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 3/8"). 2 leaves, 8pp., 1 leaf, 24pp. Original stab-bound drab wraps housed in blue cloth folding portfolio with plain tan paper strip (7 5/8 x 1 3/8") mounted to cover at lower foredge. Title page printed 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

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

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Dedicated to Herbert H. Paper by the author on front endpaper: "To my friend, my ally, and my fellow sufferer in Elamite and Oriental things. may the gods give us ..... (followed by few cuneiform letters)!! George G. Cameron." Quarto. xviii..... More

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxix, 744(2)pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. There are at least 3 distinct Gurage languages, possibly as many as 12, according to Leslau. It is spoken in the South Ethiopic group of Semitic. Includes articles on Gurage in..... 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