Linguistics
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# 18722
GUIGNES, Chrétien Louis Joseph de (1759-1845)
Dictionnaire Chinois, Français et Latin. Publié d’après l’ordre de sa majesté L’Empereur et Roi Napoléon le Grand.
Paris : l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1813. First edition. Thick folio (435 mm x 279 mm), contemporary cat’s paw calf, boards with gilt fillet borders, spine with raised bands and red morocco label lettered in gilt; all edges stained red, marbled endpapers, first blank with armorial bookplate of the Duc de Luynes, Chateau de Dampierre; pp [6], lvi, …
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# 17342
SCHROETER, Frederic Christian Gotthelf (1786-1820); MARSHMAN, John Clark & CAREY, William (eds.)
A Dictionary of the Bhotanta or Boutan language. Printed from a manuscript copy made by the late Rev. Frederic Christian Gotthelf Schroeter. Edited by John Marshman. To which is prefixed a grammar of the Bhotanta language. Edited by W. Carey.
Serampore: s.n., 1826. Quarto, contemporary full calf (boards a trifle scuffed), spine in gilt-ruled compartments with contrasting leather title label lettered in gilt, front pastedown with bookplate of John Lawson, original endpapers, pp [2], [1]-iii, [1 blank], [1]- 35, [1 blank], [1]-6, [1]-268, 267-475, [1 blank]; endpapers and title with light foxing, first and last …
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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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# 18016
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. Scarce.
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# 18070
Turkish proverbs translated into English
Venice : printed at the Armenian Monastary of S. Lazarus, 1880. Sextodecimo, printed wrappers, bookplate inside upper wrapper, pp. 37. Very good. Text in Turkish and English. Scarce.
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# 17347
CSOMA DE KÖRÖS, Alexander (1784-1842)
A Grammar of the Tibetan language, in English.
Prepared, under the patronage of the Government and the auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, by Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Calcutta : printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, 1834. Quarto, modern quarter morocco over cloth boards, new endpapers, pp [5], vi-xii, [1]-204, [1 blank], + lithographed section in Tibetan script containing Syllabic scheme of the …
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# 17346
WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells (1812-1884)
A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language; arranged according to the Wu-fang yuen yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai.
Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1874. First edition. Quarto, contemporary brown quarter leather over green cloth (heavily rubbed, corners worn, joints repaired), spine with gilt lettering and rule (somewhat worn and faded), later endpapers, pp [3], vi-lxxxiv, [1]-1250, [4, last 2 blank]; upper and lower edges with some dampstaining, a few marginal pencil annotations, otherwise contents …
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# 17912
HILL, Thomas Padmore
The oratorical trainer : a system of vocal culture.
By Thomas Padmore Hill, Professor of Elocution. Melbourne : George Robertson, 1869. Fifth edition. Octavo, original blind blocked purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine (cloth faded, corners worn, lower board and spine with a few ink stains), all edges red, original ownership inscription of William Ross to half-title, lithographed frontispiece diagram illustrating modes …
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# 17344
LOBSCHEID, Wilhelm (1822-1893)
Grammar of the Chinese language … In two parts. Part II.
Hongkong : printed at the office of the “Daily Press”, 1864. Octavo, contemporary limp cloth (sunned and stained), spine with gilt bands (faded, frayed at head and tail), front endpaper and title with ownership inscriptions of A. Neville J. Whymant, Lecturer in Chinese and Japanese, School of Oriental Studies, University of London (dated 1920), pp [2], [3], …
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# 17610
CONDIT, Ira M.
English and Chinese reader.
By Rev. I. M. Condit, Missionary to the Chinese. New York : American Tract Society, [1902]. Octavo, original blind stamped maroon cloth boards (rubbed and with a few light marks), pp 144; parallel text in English and Chinese characters, vignette lithographed illustrations; clean throughout, binding firm, a very good copy. Includes 72 reading lessons plus exercises …
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# 17609
STEDMAN, T.L. & LEE, K.P.
Chinese-English phrase book in the Canton dialect, or, Dialogues on ordinary and familiar subjects.
For the use of Chinese resident in America and of Americans desirous of learning the Chinese language. With the proninciation of each word indicated in Chinese and Roman characters. Washington ; New York ; Paris : Brentano’s, 1920. Small octavo, publisher’s cloth backed printed red papered boards (a little sunned, corners bumped, mild edge wear), …
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# 17498
BERNDT, R.M. & BERNDT, C.H. (eds.)
Aboriginal man in Australia : essays in honour of Emeritus Professor A.P. Elkin.
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1965. First edition. Thick octavo, publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (a little rubbed along spine), pp xiv, 452, photographic plates, maps, music notation; a fine copy. Includes essays on archaeology (Frederick McCarthy); language (A. Capell); totemsim (W.E.H. Stanner); women and the “secret life” (Catherine H. Berndt); law and order …
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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 straight grained morocco richly gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; printed on rice paper; ff [5], 551, [1], 41 (Indice hispano-bisaya de las rayzes contenidas en este vocabulario bisaya-hispano), [3 – appendix …
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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; pp [xvi], 148, [6], [2], 247, [3]; Manval tagalog has individual title page; ornamental woodcut head- and tailpieces; slight …
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# 14650
Gibert de Santa Eulalia, Pedro
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. …
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# 14649
Rodriguez, José
Catecismo de la doctrina christiana
/ Impreso por orden de N. M. R. P. Fr. Jesé [sic] Rodriguez, Prior Provincial del Santisimo Rosario de Filipinas con aprobacion del Illmo. y Rmo. Sr. D. Fr. Francisco Alban, Obispo de Nueva Segovia. [Manila] : En la imprenta de D. José Maria Dayot, por Tomas Oliva, 1834. Duodecimo, contemporary limp sheep; inside front cover …