Linguistics
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# 46885
PLOMLEY, N. J. B. (Norman James Brian)
A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages
Launceston, Tas. : N.J.B. Plomley in association with the Government of Tasmania, 1976. Large octavo (255 x 180 mm), cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (front panel a trifle worn at top edge); endpaper maps; xv, 486 pp, map; internally unmarked, an excellent copy. Plomley’s scholarly work on Tasmanian Aboriginal languages was compiled over twenty-five years …
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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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# 46412
WELLS, Charles (1838-1917)
The literature of the Turks. A Turkish chrestomathy, consisting of extracts in Turkish from the best Turkish authors (historians, novelists, dramatists, &c.), with interlinear and free translations in English, biographical and grammatical notes, and facsimiles of ms. letters and documents.
London : Bernard Quaritch, 1891. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red cloth, spine lettered in gilt (slightly sun-faded); front pastedown with ex libris of [Lt. Colonel Victor] de Guinzbourg, pp. xix, 275, 4; texts in Turkish in Perso-Arabic script, with parallel translations and editorial notes in English; binding firm, clean throughout, …
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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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# 46413
[PERRON, Joseph or JETTÉ, Jules, attributed]
[ALASKA; JESUIT MISSIONS] Canotlé Rannaga Kelékak. Délochét Roka.
[Canticles, hymns and catechism in the Deg Xinag language]. At head of title: A.M.D.G. (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam). Winnipeg, Manitoba : Free Press No-Rodeneletekteyar, 1904. Square duodecimo (140 x 110 mm), original limp black pebbled cloth, pp. 54; a fine example. A Catholic hymn book in the Deg Xinag (or Deg Hit’an; formerly, Ingalik) language, …
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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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# 42334
Hoffmann, J. J. (Johann Joseph)
A Japanese grammar.
/ By J. J. Hoffmann. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1876. Second edition. Quarto (280 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine with gilt bands and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; [16], 367 pp; with 2 plates, one of them folding (short tear at bottom corner); a …