Linguistics

  • Arabic Lapidary Kufic in Africa. Egypt - North Africa - Sudan

    # 48880

    ARIF, Aida S.

    Arabic Lapidary Kufic in Africa. Egypt – North Africa – Sudan

    .A study of the development of the Kufic Script (3rd – 6th Century A. H. / 9th – 12th Century A.D.). London : Luzac & Company, 1967. Octavo, orange cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated dustjacket (marked) pp. xv; [blank]; 75; [blank]; 36 black and white photographic plates; 117; [blank]; a touch of foxing to edges, …

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  • Key to the study of ancient Japanese place names / アイヌ語より觀たる日本地名研究 / Ainugo yori mitaru Nihon chimei kenkyū

    # 49886

    BATCHELOR, John

    Key to the study of ancient Japanese place names / アイヌ語より觀たる日本地名研究 / Ainugo yori mitaru Nihon chimei kenkyū

    Tokyo : Bunrokusha, Showa 4 (1929). Octavo, gilt lettered cloth, early Japanese inscription to endpaper, title pages in English and Japanese, pp. xii; 74; (3), light scattered foxing, text mostly in Japanese. House in the publisher’s lettered card slipcase, with a title inscribed in Esperanto. Englishman Rev. John Batchelor (1855-1944), of the Church Missionary Society, …

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  • Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum volumen primum.

    # 48549

    MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro (1533–1603) and Emanuel ACOSTA

    Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum volumen primum.

    Neapoli : In aedibus Decii Lachaei, 1573. Quarto, contemporary vellum, expertly recased, title in manuscript to spine, ff. 236, [2 index]; historiated initials; internally clean, a fine copy. The earliest detailed account of the Jesuit missions in the East, of particular importance for its content relating to Japan.  This is the third, expanded edition of …

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  • 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, … …

    # 47202

    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, later marbled calf with borders decorated in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt ornament and red morocco title pieces lettered in gilt,; marbled endpapers; printed on …

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  • Arte de la lengva tacala, y Manval tagalog, para la administracion de los Santos Sacramentos,

    # 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]; …

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  • Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island;

    # 48755

    HALL, Basil

    Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island;

    with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. By Captain Basil Hall, … and a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language, by H. J. Clifford, Esq., Lieutenant Royal Navy. London : John Murray, 1818. Quarto (290 x 230 mm), papered boards (worn and marked), spine with printed title label; pp. xv (including the half-title, …

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  • Notitia linguæ Sinicæ. Auctore P. Premare.

    # 48420

    PRÉMARE, Joseph Henri-Marie de (1666-1736); JULIEN, Stanilas Aignan (1797-1873)

    Notitia linguæ Sinicæ. Auctore P. Premare.

    Malaccæ : Cura et sumptibus Collegii Anglo-Sinici [Anglo-Chinese College], 1831. First edition. Large quarto (300 x 250 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt rule and red morocco title label lettered in gilt; pp. [1]-262 (numbering erratic at pp. 144-149 as in all copies), [2 blank], 28 (Index), with two front …

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  • Premari Notitia Linguae sinicae. Ex Apographo, Ipsius Premari manu emendato, quod In Bibliotheca Regia Parisiensi servatuo, Accurate descripsit Stanislaus Julien.

    # 19425

    PRÉMARE, Joseph Henri-Marie de (1666-1736); JULIEN, Stanilas Aignan (1797-1873)

    Premari Notitia Linguae sinicae. Ex Apographo, Ipsius Premari manu emendato, quod In Bibliotheca Regia Parisiensi servatuo, Accurate descripsit Stanislaus Julien.

    [circa 1825]. Folio, modern full vellum binding by Aquarius; p. 466, [3 blank]; manuscript in ink entirely in the hand of Stanislas Julien; in Latin and Chinese, the Chinese characters written from left to right; title-page with wet-stamped monogram of sinologist Marquis d’Hervey de Saint-Denys (1822-1892), his manuscript collection label preserved on rear endpaper; tear …

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  • Translations from the Manchu, with the original texts, prefaced by an Essay on the Language.

    # 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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  • Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala,

    # 14230

    Noceda, Juan de; Sanlucar, Pedro de

    Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala,

    compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por el P. Juan de Noceda y el P. Pedro de Sanlucar. Ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la orden de Augustinos calzados. Reimpreso en Manila : Imprenta de Ramirez y Giraudier, 1860. Folio, contemporary limp vellum (stained); pp. [18], 642; text in double columns; some …

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  • [PROTESTANT CATECHISM IN TAMIL] Tamil series, No. III. Sweet savours of divine truth. Vetopateca parimaḷam.

    # 48800

    SCUDDER, Henry Martyn (1822-1895)

    [PROTESTANT CATECHISM IN TAMIL] Tamil series, No. III. Sweet savours of divine truth. Vetopateca parimaḷam.

    Madras : printed and published by P. R. Hunt, at the American Mission Press for the American Madura Mission, 1862. Third edition. Duodecimo, original publisher’s printed silk-bound flush-cut cards (lightly marked), spine with handwritten title Telugu text (in error, as this text is in Tamil – another major Dravidian language – but indeed a catechism …

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  • Lexicon manuale Latino Sinicum

    # 48957

    Gonçalves, Joaquim Affonso

    Lexicon manuale Latino Sinicum

    continens omnia vocabula Latina utilia, et primitiva, etiam Scripturae Sacrae. Auctore Joachim Alphonso Gonsalves, Presbytero. Volumen primum. Macai : In Collegio S. Joseph. Ab Emmanuele Rosa typis mandatum. Anno MDCCCXXXIX. [Macao : College of St. Joseph, 1839]. [All published]. Tall narrow octavo (275 x 160 mm), recent quarter vellum over papered boards, spine with contrasting leather …

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  • Notitia linguæ Sinicæ of Premare.

    # 48962

    PRÉMARE, Joseph Henri-Marie de (1666-1736); BRIDGMAN, J. G. (James Granger) (translator)

    Notitia linguæ Sinicæ of Premare.

    Translated into English by J. G. Bridgman. Canton : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1847. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt decoration and red morocco title label lettered in gilt; pp. [8], [i]-xxxv, [2], 26-328; text in English with passages and examples in Chinese …

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  • Di-li shü lin væn-koh kwu-kying z-tì yiu-tin kông-tsing. Di nyi peng.

    # 48959

    [MARTIN, William Alexander Parsons]

    Di-li shü lin væn-koh kwu-kying z-tì yiu-tin kông-tsing. Di nyi peng.

    Nyingpo [Ningbo] : [Mission Press], 1852. Octavo, recent quarter calf over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt ‘Apostles’; block-printed on rice paper in double leaves in romanized Ningbo colloquial dialect; title-leaf with woodcut after Raphael’s Saint Paul delivering the Areopagus Sermon in Athens illustrating Acts 17:16-34 (margins reinforced verso), frontispiece folding map of the Biblical world (essentially the Hellenistic world) showing the Mediterranean, …

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  • Easy lessons in Chinese: or progressive exercises to facilitate the study of that language, especially adapted to the Canton dialect.

    # 48950

    WILLIAMS, Samuel Wells

    Easy lessons in Chinese: or progressive exercises to facilitate the study of that language, especially adapted to the Canton dialect.

    Macao : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1842. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt-ruled bands and contrasting title label lettered in gilt; separate title-leaves in Chinese characters and in English, dedication leaf, pp. ix, [1 blank], 287, [1 colophon]; one folding table with Chinese …

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  • Australian Aboriginal place-names and their meanings.

    # 49146

    TYRRELL, James

    Australian Aboriginal place-names and their meanings.

    / Compiled by James Tyrrell. Sydney : Simmons Limited, 1933. First edition. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), pictorial papered boards (some loss to paper at spine ends), front free-endpaper with early owner’s name in pencil; pp. 56, illustrated with 7 b/w photographic plates with portraits of New South Wales Aborigines by Charles Kerry; occasional pencilled …

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