Linguistics
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# 20782
BAILEY, Nathan; [LEICHHARDT, Ludwig, 1813-c.1848]
[LUDWIG LEICHHARDT] The universal etymological English dictionary:
… The second edition, with many additions. London : Thomas Cox, 1731. Thick octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (a little worn), the personal copy of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, his ownership signature in ink ‘L. Leichhardt’ on a binder’s blank at the rear; front free-endpaper with later ownership inscription of Thomas Hughes …
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# 22529
MORRISON, Robert (1782-1834)
A view of China, for philological purposes ; containing a sketch of Chinese chronology, geography, government, religion & customs.
Designed for the use of persons who study the Chinese language. Macao : printed at the Honorable the East India Company’s Press, by P.P. Thoms. Published and sold by Black, Parbury, and Allen, booksellers to the Honorable East India Company, London, 1817. First edition. Quarto, later blind blocked pale blue cloth boards (rebacked), spine lettered …
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# 21623
KRANZ, Paul (1866-1920)
The “Chinese alphabet” : four thousand most frequent characters, according to their frequency. In four series of one thousand characters each, and subdivided into nine classes. For private study and self-examination, and for use in Chinese schools.
Shanghai : Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press, [1903-04]. Two volumes in one, folio (380 x 250 mm), bound in later black lettered tan cloth over boards (lightly marked) for renowned China philatelist H.K. Bowker (a paymaster in the United States Navy). Volume one (lacking title leaf), containing Series I and II, pp i-iii …
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# 21763
WALKER, John
Walker’s critical pronouncing dictionary, and expositor of the English language.
Abridged, by the Rev. Thomas Smith, London. To which isadded, a chronological table, containing te principal events of the late war between the United States and Great Britain. Cooperstown, N.Y. : H. & E. Phinney, 1837. Square duodecimo (145 x 120 mm), contemporary full calf, spine with gilt lettering and rule (boards scuffed and worn …
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# 22177
WANG, Leland
[CHINESE HYMNAL] Evangelistic hymns : for church worship, gospel services and revival meetings.
Foochow : Wang and Shanghai : Mission Book Company, n.d. (preface dated 1926). Fourth edition (stated). Octavo, original green cloth over boards with gilt lettering in English and Chinese (rubbed and lightly marked), pagination based on Chinese title page: 6, 136, [6], viii (i.e. 6), [6 pages of blank printed musical staves], [6 pages comprising …
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# 21703
CARPENTER, C.H.
A revision of Dr. Wade’s rules for the transliteration of foreign terms into Karen. (Presentation copy)
Rangoon : American Mission Press, C. Bennett, 1875. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (lightly foxed), stitch bound, a presentation copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the upper wrapper ‘M.S. Rice Esq., from C.H. Carpenter’; pp 24; text in English and S’gaw Karen script; internally very clean; a near fine inscribed copy. A rare late nineteenth …
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# 21869
FULTON, A. A.
Progressive and idiomatic sentences in Cantonese colloquial
Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press [circa 1905]. Fourth edition. For sale by Kelly & Walsh, Hong Kong. Octavo, lettered papered boards, cloth spine, pp. 101, text in English and Chinese. The first edition was published in 1888 and the third edition (revised and enlarged) in 1902.
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# 22160
[ARMENIAN PRAYER BOOK] Girkʻ aghōtʻitsʻ
Kostandnupolis [i.e. Constantinople] : Paul Arapian, 1850. Small duodecimo (100 x 65 mm), contemporary full limp calf (heavily rubbed and worn at corners), pp 154, with numerous lithographed illustrations and headpieces; occasional annotations by the original owner, mild water stain at top edges of leaves, dog-eared corners, some leaves a little darkened from handling; a …
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# 21595
CHALMERS, John (1825-1899)
An account of the structure of Chinese characters under 300 primary forms : after the Shwoh-wan, 100 A.D., and the phonetic Shwoh-wan, 1833.
Shanghai ; Hongkong ; Singapore ; Yokohama : Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1911. Second edition. Octavo, publisher’s black lettered plum cloth over boards, folding frontispiece chart of 300 characters printed in red and black, second frontispiece with identical chart in single full page format (printed in black only), pp viii, 199; light foxing to endpapers …
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# 21409
Anon. [A.I.F.]
The Australian soldiers’ guide to easy French and Arabic
/ compiled by a member of the original A.I.F. Cover title: Easy conversational Arabic and French for the Australian soldier … Price: Sixpence. South Melbourne : Printed by the Hilton Press Ltd., for Popular Publications Pty. Ltd., [between 1915 and 1918]. Duodecimo, original printed brown wrappers with vignette Rising Sun badge to front (lightly marked, a couple …
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# 14225
Sánchez, Matheo
Uocabulario de la lengua bisaya,
compuesto por el R.P. Matheo Sánchez de la Sagrada Compañía de Iesus, y aumentado por otros PP. de la misma Compañía para el uso, y Comodidad de los PP. Ministros de los Partidos de Bisayas. Manila : Impresso en el Colegio de la Sagrada Compañia de Jesus … por Gaspar Aquino de Belen, 1711. Quarto, later …
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# 15181
Bergaño, Diego
Arte de la lengua Pampanga
[Manila] : En la imprenta de la Compañia de Jesus, por S. Lopez Sabino, 1729. First edition. Small quarto, contemporary vellum (marked, lacking ties), new endpapers; printed on rice paper, pp [xxi], [1 blank] 364, [1 blank], [12], [1 blank]; woodcut head- and tailpieces; several leaves with expert repairs (mostly marginal), occasional browning, but a …
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# 14165
Bergaño, Diego
Bocabulario de Pampango en Romance, y diccionario de Romance en Pampango.
Manila : en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles, 1732. Folio, contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties), front endpaper with restoration at edges; printed on rice paper; title page within decorative border, with woodcut episcopal coat of arms; pp 409, 88; as in other copies, pp. 301-04 are repeated and [407-09] are incorrectly numbered 397-99; tape …
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# 15166
Totanes, Sebastián de, 1687-1748
Arte de la lengva tagala, y Manval tagalog, para la administracion de los Santos Sacramentos, que de orden de sus superiores compuso Sebastián de Totanes, … …
Manila : Imprenta . . . sita en el Convento de Nra. Señora de Loreto en el Pueblo de Sampaloc Extra-muros de la Ciudad …, 1745. First edition. Quarto, original limp vellum (marked and stained) with manuscript title in red and black ink to spine, pastedown with bookplate of Bibliotheca Lindesiana; printed on rice paper, pp …
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# 15165
Totanes, Sebastián de, 1687-1748
Arte de la lengva tacala, y Manval tagalog,
para la administracion de los Santos Sacramentos, que de orden de sus superiores compuso Sebastián de Totanes, … … Sampaloc : Reimpresso en la Imprenta de Nra. Sra. de Loreto, por el herm. Pedro Argüelles de la Concepcion, 1796. Small quarto, contemporary limp vellum (minor repairs, remnants of leather ties), spine with manuscript title in ink; …
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# 14650
Santa Eulalia, Pedro de
Plan de la religion que en siete discursos dialogo historicos : compendia las mas portentosas obras
y los mas augustos Misterios, que Dios ha manifestado a los hombres desde el principio hasta el gran día de su Eterno hijo. Se sigue un metodo para recivir con fruto los sacramentos de la Penitencia y de la Eucaristia, y el exercicio del Via Crucis al fin. Traducido todo en idioma Cuyono por N. …