Linguistics

# 38353

MEADOWS, Thomas Taylor (1815-1868)

Translations from the Manchu, with the original texts, prefaced by an Essay on the Language.

Canton : S. Wells Williams, 1849. Octavo (220 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; pp viii, 54, [48 texts in Manchu (Mongolian) script, block printed in the Chinese style]; facing title page, a title page in Chinese and Manchu printed on yellow paper (chipped at corners); leaves with browning and …

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# 46898

RAMSON, W. S.

The currency of Aboriginal words in Australian English

Sydney, NSW : Australian Language Research Centre, University of Sydney, 1964. Occasional Paper no. 3. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), printed blue wrappers sunned at edges), pp. 15, [1]; internally very good.

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# 47025

WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

[PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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# 46910

SMITH, Arthur H.

Proverbs and common sayings from the Chinese, together with much related and unrelated matter Interspersed with observations on Chinese things-in-general.

Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1902. Revised edition. Octavo, half-calf over pebbled cloth, loss to head and foot of spine, pp. viii; 374, xxx, preliminaries foxed, otherwise very good. Text in English and Chinese.

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# 45937

T'ONG, Ting-kü (1832-1892)

全集語英 (Ying u Tsap Ts’un) or The Chinese and English Instructor

Canton : 1862. Six volumes (complete), tall octavo (279 x 153mm), original stitched wrappers (the first volume lacking the lower wrapper), printed title labels (with remnants on a few volumes), some rubbing and light stains; text in English and Chinese; text blocks folded in fukurotoji style, housed in original wooden boards (one crack repaired) titled …

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# 46474

MORRISON, Robert (1782–1834)

五車韻府 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison, D. D.

Shanghae : London Mission Press; London : Trübner & Co., 1865. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary half-russet roan over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, shelf labels to foot of spines, light edge wear, shelf marks to front pastedowns and title pages, pp. ix; [blank]; 224, 224-239, 239 …

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# 46532

SWETTENHAM, Sir Frank A. (1850 - 1946)

Vocabulary of the English and Malay languages with notes

Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Yokohama : Kelly & Walsh, Volume I : 1909 (eighth edition; Volume II : 1908 (seventh edition). Two volumes, octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth (a few marks, edges lightly rubbed), blind stamp to half-titles of Pritchard, Bookseller Penang, pp. viii; xxxii; 245; xxii; 170, text in English and Malay in Roman …

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# 46380

BLAGDEN, C. O.

An English-Malay phrase-book

Singapore : Malaya Publishing House, Limited, 1951. Octavo, lettered papered boards (stained and discoloured), sloth spine, pp. 265, edges browned, a very good copy.

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# 46391

HOULDER, J. A.

[MADAGASCAR] Ohabolana, or Malagasy proverbs, illustrating the wit and wisdom of the Hova of Madagascar. Parts I and II

/ collected, translated, and arranged by J.A. Houlder ; with translations into French by Henri Noyer ; edited by James Sibree. Faravohitra, Antananarivo : Printed and published at the press of the Friends’ Foreign Missionary Association, 1915-1916. First edition (first printing). Two volumes bound in one, octavo (220 x 145 mm), red cloth over red papered …

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# 46409

The alphabets of Korea and English for the students.

Seoul : East-West Academic Research Society [c.1950?]. Folding sheet, 175 x 380 mm (opened), 175 x 95 mm (closed), printed on both sides; front panel illustrated with the Taegukgi, followed by 6 panels with the two alphabets presented in tabular form with equivalents in each language, and a colophon in Korean on last panel; good …

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# 46397

GILES, Herbert A.

Chinese without a teacher.

Being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect with a vocabulary. Fifth and revised edition. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, 1901. Octavo, lettered papered boards, cloth spine, pp. [viii]; 67, text in Chinese and English, a few pencil annotations, but a good copy. Scarce.

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# 17345

MEADOWS, Thomas Taylor (1815-1868)

Translations from the Manchu, with the original texts, prefaced by an Essay on the Language.

Canton : S. Wells Williams, 1849. Octavo, contemporary wrappers pasted over the original printed wrappers, spine with early manuscript title ‘Manchu Language’, sewn as issued, the Sir Thomas Phillipps copy inscribed “MHC” and with shelf-mark in ink on inside of upper cover, 1 leaf with the title in Manchu and Chinese, printed on yellow paper, facing the English title, …

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# 45900

[NOTT, Henry] HOWE, William; CHISHOLM, Alexander; BARFF, John

[BIBLE. TAHITIAN] Te Bibilia moa ra, oia te faufaa Tahito e te faufaa apî ra : iritihia ei parau Tahiti.

Lonedona : Neia e R. Clay, Sons, e O. Taylor ma, na te Taieti Bibilia i Beritani e te mau fenua atoa i faatupuhia i Lonedona ra i te Matahiti 1804. [London : R.Clay & Sons and O. Taylor, for The British and Foreign Bible Society], 1878. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), …

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# 45946

[THE COMMERCIAL PRESS]

English and Chinese Primer

Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1937. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 48, text in English and Chinese, some small text illustrations.

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# 44771

LANMAN, Charles Rockwell (1850-1941); MÜLLER, Friedrich Max (1823-1900)

Charles Rockwell Lanman, American Sanskritist, to Professor Max Müller, German Orientalist: a handwritten postcard, sent from Harvard to Oxford in 1896.

United States of America two cents postcard, 90 x 140 mm, recto addressed Professor Fr. Max Müller, K.M., etc. etc., University of Oxford, England, with an Oxford arrival postmark of July 4 1896, and re-directed address of Spitalhaugh, West Linton, S. B. [i.e. Scottish Borders]; verso imprinted ‘C. R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Mass. / Harvard …

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# 44770

LANMAN, Charles Rockwell (1850-1941)

A Sanskrit reader : text and vocabulary and notes. (Lanman’s copy)

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1920. Seventh issue. Large octavo (260 x 180 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards; front free-endpaper with the dated ownership wet stamp of ‘Charles R. Lanman, 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts OCT 3 1921’ and fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘C. R. Lanman’s copy / for use in …

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