Linguistics

# 46291

[INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALASIA]

[KULIN LANGUAGES] God hath made of one blood all nations of men : Acts 17th Chap. 25th verse : in 103 languages : a memorial of the Victorian Exhibition 1866, consisting of a verse from holy writ in above one hundred languages.

[Drop title]. [Melbourne : s.n., 1866]. Lithographic printing on linen-backed paper (apparently as issued), 325 x 375 mm (sheet); right-hand edge trimmed and roughened with some minor textual loss, upper left corner of sheet with small loss and a tiny tear, verso with traces of old glue at each corner (although the sheet appears to …

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# 47314

CALCUTTA AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY

[BIBLE] The Book of Proverbs, in Sanskrit verse. Translated from the Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries.

Calcutta : Printed for the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, at the Baptist Mission Press, 1862. Octavo (212 x 140 mm), original pale green wrappers (some minor chipping) with brown paper backstrip, upper wrapper with printed title label in Sanskrit and English ‘The Proverbs of Solomon in Sanskrit-Bengali’; title leaf + 76 pp.; clean throughout, a …

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# 47488

[HANDS, John; REEVES, William, et al., translators]

[BIBLE] [The Book of Deuteronomy in the Kannada language of southwestern India].

[Bellary (i.e. Ballari) : Mission Press, c.1830]. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), contemporary marbled calf (a few minor scuffs), upper board with blind-stamp of the Auxiliary Bible Society, Madras, prominent at centre; spine ruled in gilt; edges speckled blue; hinges cracked; front pastedown with old bookseller label of F. & R. Chamonal, Paris, front free-endpaper …

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# 47343

DYER BALL, J.

How to speak Cantonese : fifty conversations in Cantonese colloquial;

with the Chinese characters free and literal English translations, and Romanised spelling with tonic and diacritical marks, etc. Preceded by five short lessons of one, two, and three words. Hong Kong : Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1912. Fourth edition. Octavo, lettered papered boards, cloth spine (edges rubbed), cloth spine, Chinese characters in manuscript to endpaper, …

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# 47304

Anon.

[AUSTRONESIAN LINGUISTICS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO] Textes en langue Boughi. I.

Series title: Chrestomathies océaniennes. Paris : Imp. Orientale, Callet, r. de Seine 5, n.d. [circa 1880]. Oblong octavo, original pictorial wrappers (light corner and edge wear), string bound, 18 pp, internally very clean and sound, text in Lontara script, final leaf with table containing the Buginese alphabet in Lontara and transliteration into Latin script. Buginese …

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# 47394

DAVIES, John (1772-1855) (translator)

[NEW TESTAMENT; TAHITIAN] Te mau Episetole a te Aposetolo ra a Paulo.

I to Galatia, Ephesia, Philipi, Colosa, Tesalonia, ia Timoteo hoi, Tito, e Philemona. Te taio ra, e haapao oia iaite. Iesu Christi. Tahiti : i neia i te nenei raa a te mau misionari ra [colophon: printed at the Windward Mission Press], 1824. Duodecimo (175 x 110 mm), contemporary diced russia (rubbed, with chips at spine ends), spine with contrasting leather title-label lettered in gilt …

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# 47390

SHYRE, Elly

[HARBIN IMPRINT] English grammar. Aнглийская грамматика.

Harbin (Manchuria, China) : [s.n.], 1921. Octavo (185 x 150 mm), original printed wrappers (chipped at corners, along spine, and at edges of lower wrapper); pp. 184, [1], [blank]; text in English and Russian Cyrillic; last blank with wet-stamp of Harbin bookseller Vakhrusheva; upper corners dog-eared, some very occasional marginalia in pencil or pen, otherwise …

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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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