Linguistics
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# 50802
EUROPAEUS, David Emanuel Daniel (Taneli)
Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.
[=The genealogical relationship of most languages of the Old World and the Australian world]. St. Petersburg : Typografiya Tovarishchestva “Obshchestvennaya Pol’za”, Bol’shaya Pod’yacheskaya no. 39, 1877. Large folio, 49 x 43 cm, pp. [10] (the last blank), comprising four double-page tables, preceded by the author’s explanatory essay illustrated with two wood-engravings; text in German; contemporary …
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# 50228
JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784)
A Dictionary of the English Language :
in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. By Samuel Johnson, A. M. In two volumes. London : Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton ; T. …
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# 50827
TINDALE, Norman B.
The legend of Waijungari, Jaralde tribe, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, and the phonetic system employed in its transcription.
Adelaide : Hassell Press 1935. Reprint ‘From Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. V, No.3 September 30, 1935’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed wrappers; pp. 261-274; with one map; a fine copy.
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# 49733
SCHMIDT, I. J. (Isaac Jacob)
Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache,
verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. St. Petersburg : Gräff ; Leipzig, Voss, 1839. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), contemporary red calf, richly gilt, spine with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt dentelles; all edges gilt; blue endpapers; pp. xv, [1 blank], 318, [2 Errata]; text in German (roman) and Tibetan script; scattered light foxing, a fine …
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# 49894
PRÉMARE, Joseph Henri-Marie de (1666-1736); JULIEN, Stanilas Aignan (1797-1873)
Notitia linguæ Sinicæ. Auctore P. Premare (with acknowledgement leaf)
Malaccæ : Cura et sumptibus Collegii Anglo-Sinici [Anglo-Chinese College], 1831. First edition. Quarto (230 x 183 mm), plain wrappers stitch-bound in the Chinese manner; title leaf with pencil annotations, acknowledgement leaf (sometimes not bound in), pp. [1]-262 (numbering erratic at pp. 144-149 as in all copies), [2 blank], 28 (Index, with a short tear internally …
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# 49562
BATCHELOR, John
An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary and Grammar.
By the Rev. John Batchelor, Church Missionary Society, Hakodate. Tokyo : Printed for the Hokkaido Cho by Y. Kumata, 1889. Large octavo (240 x 165 mm), quarter black morocco over blind-blocked black cloth (expertly recased with new spine replicating the original), upper board with gilt lettering and device, spine in compartments with gilt lettering and …
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# 48930
MEDHURST, W. H. (Walter Henry) (1796-1857)
An English and Japanese and Japanese and English vocabulary. Compiled from native works, by W. H. Medhurst.
Batavia : Printed by lithography, 1830. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), handsome modern binding of half calf over marbled papered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt; edges stained red; pp. viii, 343; lithographed handwritten text, the Japanese presented in both Roman and Japanese characters; title-page with red ownership stamps of ‘T. Flanaut, …
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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 …
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# 48940
HIRTH, F. (Friedrich)
Notes on the Chinese documentary style.
/ By F. Hirth, Ph.D.,Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Statistical Secretary, Inspectorate General of Customs, Shanghai. At head of title: Wên-chien tzü-chü ju-mên. Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama, and Singapore : Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1888. Small octavo, contemporary half cloth over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt rule and lettering; pp. vi, [2], 150, [1 Errata], …
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# 49973
[BARTELS, Albert]. INOUYE, T.
The modern linguist, or conversations in English, French, German and Japanese
Tokio L H. Uyeki, 1886. Oblong octavo, publisher’s cloth with contemporary original owner’s homemade marbled paper jacket, with title label and initials ‘F. J.’, half-title in English and Japanese, pp. xii; 165; blank; (3), vocabulary of words and short phrases in five languages, derived from Albert Bartels’ work published in 1850, title leaf with offsetting …
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# 50240
BAILEY, N[athan].
A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary :
containing not only explanations of the words in the English language, and the different senses in which they are used ; with authorities from the best writers, to support those which appear doubtful ; but also their etymologies from ancient and modern languages : and accents directing to their proper pronunciation ; shewing both the …
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# 49442
MORRISON, Robert
Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in three parts. Part II, Vol. I.
[Shanghai : Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd., 1913]. Thick octavo (235 x 155 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth (somewhat mildew-stained, cloth splitting along outer front hinge and frayed at spine ends); title-leaf of Part II. Vol. 1 (1819), title-leaf of Part II. Vol. II (1820), pp. xx, 1090, 72 (Index of the Characters); printed on …
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# 50003
POOLE, Joshua
The English Parnassus : or a help to English poesie.
Containing a collection of all the rhythming monosyllables, the choicest epithets and phrases. With some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and themes, alphabetically digested. London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Second edition (first published in 1657). Octavo, finely bound in nineteenth century full vellum by Seton & Mackenzie, contrasting red morocco …
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# 49948
WIESENTHAL, W.
Küçük lügat : Türçeden Fransızcaya = Petit dictionnaire turc-français
… Editeur: Ohannes Kayssérian. Istanbul : Mahmud bey matbaası, 1304 / Constantinople : Imprimerie Mahmoud Bey, 1887. 32mo (123 x 95 mm), original quarter morocco over pebbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands and contrasting title label lettered in gilt in Ottoman script; marbled pastedowns and endpapers (front pastedown with old label of Japanese bookseller …
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# 48965
MORRISON, Robert (1732-1834)
A grammar of the Chinese language. (John Francis Davis’ copy)
Serampore : Printed at the Mission Press, 1815. Quarto (275 x 215 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt; marbled edges; title with ownership signature of ‘J. F. Davis’; pp vi, [2], 280; text in English and Chinese characters; occasional marginal damp staining with …
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# 49046
THOM, Robert (1807-1846) (translator)
Wang Keaou Lwan pih neen chang han, or The lasting resentment of Miss Keaou Lwan Wang, a Chinese tale; founded on fact. Translated from the original by Sloth. (Inscribed by Rev. David Thom)
Canton : printed at the Canton Press Office, 1839. Small quarto, recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with contrasting red leather title label lettered in gilt; bound with the original printed green upper wrapper (stained and re-margined) retaining the two original pasted-on printed slips worded ‘Translated from the original by Robert Thom, Esq., resident …