Linguistics

# 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 …

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# 42373

COLLADO, Diego (d. 1638 or 1641)

Dictionarium sive thesauri linguae Iaponicae compendium …

Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [bound with] Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae linguae … Romae typis & impensis Sacr. Congr. de Prop. Fide, MDCXXXII [1632]; [and bound with] Niffon no Cotōbani yô confesion, … [= modus confitendi et examinandi poenitentem Japonensem, formula suamet lingua Japonica … ] Romae typis & impensis Sacr. …

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# 44472

MATHEW, John

Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian Aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages.

London : David Nutt ; Melbourne : Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1899. First edition. Octavo (240 x 160 mm), original maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine (bright and unrubbed); pp.xvi; 288; illustrated with [5] leaves of plates and a folding colour linguistic map; internally superb, a very fine example of the scarce …

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# 44772

LOWENSTEIN, Wendy

Shocking, shocking, shocking. The improper play rhymes of Australian children (signed copy)

Prahran, Melbourne : Fish and Chip Press, 1974. Foolscap folio, hand-painted and stencilled wrappers, pp. 48 printed roneo, signed by the author inside upper wrapper. Australian Folklore Occasional Paper No. 5. Colophon and illustration by Ron Edwards. A fascinating insight into colloquial Australian playground nursery rhymes in the twentieth century. Scarce. Shocking, shocking, shocking. A …

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# 44674

NAPURRULA, Charlotte Phillipus; TJAPANGATI, Thomas Stevens (illustrator)

[PINTUPI-LURITJA LANGUAGE] Yara waṉampitjarra

/ Charlotte Phillipus Napurrulala yara wakanu ; Thomas Stevenslu piitju tjuta wakanu. Alice Springs, N.T. : Papunya Literature Production Centre, 1984. First edition. Quarto (275 x 205 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, [16] pp. text in Pintupi-Luritja with English translation, with 7 full-page colour illustrations; light foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise very good. Primer …

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# 44837

LISTER-TURNER, Rev. R.; CLARK, Rev. J.B. CHATTERTON, Percy (editor)

A grammar of the Motu language of Papua.

Sydney : A.H. Pettifer, Govt. Printer, [1946]. Second edition. Octavo (240 x 150 mm), publisher’s silver-lettered green cloth (lightly marked); 91 pp; internally excellent; bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to front free-endpaper.

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# 44463

MATHEWS, R. H. (Robert Hamilton) (1841-1918)

Languages of the Kamilaroi and other Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales.

London : Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1903. “Reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXXIII, July-December 1903”. Quarto (270 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed green wrappers (edges sunned, original owner’s name to front and first page of text), pp. 259-283; an excellent copy, bound in later limp morocco with silver …

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# 42355

TE AROHA PONO [COLENSO, William 1811-1899]

[MAORI LANGUAGE] Ko te tuarua o nga pukapuka waki; hei wakakite atu i nga henga a te Hahi o Roma.

Hopataone [Hobart Town] : He mea ta i te Perehi o te Watahaoha ratou ko nga teina [printed by R. S. Waterhouse and Brothers], 1840. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), recent stitched marbled wrappers; pp. 24; text in Māori; first leaf with small perforation to top margin, a lightly creased top corner and some mild …

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# 44505

SCARBOROUGH, William (1841 - 1894)

A collection of Chinese proverbs

Translated and arranged by William Scarborough, Wesleyan Missionary, Hankow. With an introduction, notes, and copious index. Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1875. Octavo, lettered yellow cards, cloth spine (heavily worn, creased, mouse nibbling to lower corner), pp. xxxvi; 478. Text in English and Chinese. Scarce. ‘William Scarborough was a Wesleyan Methodict minister and missionary …

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# 44432

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sivarai namo Mareko ia gwauraia. / (St. Mark in Police Motu).

London, Canberra, Cape Town, Toronto, Wellington : The British & Foreign Bible Society, [1964]. First edition. Small octavo (180 x 123 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers, staple bound, 56 pp, line-drawn illustrations, map; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne). ‘Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just …

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# 43952

AUSTRALIA. COMMONWEALTH OFFICE OF EDUCATION. MORRIS, Katherine (illustrator)

[ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIMER FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN] Nari and Minala go to school.

Sydney : A. H. Pettifer, Government Printer, [c.1950]. Series: The Bush Books, Book 4. Octavo (200 x 150 mm), original stapled pictorial wrappers (a little sunned at edges); 24 pp, illustrations throughout (some colour), inside wrappers with word lists; a very good example. ‘This book is the fourth of a series of six primers prepared …

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# 43816

[BARRY, Sir Redmond]

Exposition Intercoloniale, 1866. Vocabulaire des dialectes des aborigenes de l’Australie.

Melbourne : Masterman, Printer, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1867. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers (some chipping and foxing to the edges, lacking the lower wrapper), sewn, pp xiv, [2], 6 large format tables of vocabulary (each folding to 460 x 580 mm),the tables detached from the text block, which is perforated along the gutter. French language …

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# 44022

BAKER, Beatrice Shirley

English and Tongan Conversation Book. Ko Tohi Lea Faka Bilitania Mo Faka-Toga

Auckland : The Brett Printing and Publishing Company, 1918. Octavo, lettered cloth flush cut wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 24, text in English and Tongan.

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# 43543

Maker unknown.

A Batak shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”.

[Northern Sumatra, twentieth century]. Comprised of twelve bamboo slats incised with Batak script, suspended by twine from a bone finial incised with shamanic symbols; dimensions 180 x 110 mm; intact, darkened patina overall. A Batak datu or shaman’s calendar, “porhalaan”, used not for determining the date but rather auspicious times for rituals. Each of the …

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