Linguistics

# 26018

LANYON-ORGILL, Peter A.

[NEW GUINEA] A dictionary of the Mailu language.

Edited and enlarged from the researches of the Rev. W. J. V. Saville and the Comte d’Argigny by Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill … With a foreword by Ernst Schwarzenburg … London : Luzac & Co., 1944. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original printed blue wrappers (sunned, upper wrapper with nick at bottom edge, spine with paper …

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# 25797

METHODIST CHURCH (NEW GUINEA)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] A Methodist hymn book in pidjin English for use in mission services held for indentured labourers.

Cover title: A Metodist him buk. Malakuna, Rabaul : Printed and published by the Methodist Mission, 1932. First edition (?). Duodecimo (155 x 105 mm), original printed brown wrappers (stained, paper loss along spine), original stitch binding (loosened), pp [4], 12; leaves detached from wrappers, but contents complete; (the substantially contents from a second copy …

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# 25122

YOUNG, Maribelle (translator)

[NEW GUINEA] Bwaidoka tales

: collected and translated by Maribelle Young. Canberra : ANU, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1979. Series: Pacific Linguistics, Series D – no. 16. Quarto, stiff wrappers, pp viii, 136, 10; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to the front free-endpaper. Bwaidoka is an Austronesian language spoken …

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# 24431

CROSS, Rev. E. B.

[KAREN LANGUAGE] The novice.

Rangoon : American Baptist Mission Press, 1883. Duodecimo, self-wrappers with woodcut of an owl, pp. [7], stitchbound. Text in English and S’gaw Karen. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Number 12 in the Toungoo Series of the American Baptist Mission. Rev. Cross is noted for his language publications including a translation of the New Testament …

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# 23805

LOEWECKE, Eunice; MAY, Jean

[NEW GUINEA] General grammar of Fasu (Namo Me).

Ukarumpa, PNG : Summer Institute of Linguistics, [1981?]. Reprinted from Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Linguistics, volume 27, 1980. Royal octavo (210 x 165 mm), printed wrappers, 106 pp; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the upper wrapper. Fasu is spoken in the Southern …

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# 23775

METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

[NEW GUINEA] Taparoro ana buki bapuna : taparoro ana wona : pana panaeati.

First Catechism and Hymns, translated into the language of Panaeati, Papua. Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., [1918]. Octavo (182 x 123 mm), string bound, original cloth backed printed blue papered boards, 72 pp; a superb copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Copies are recorded in …

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# 23769

SENFT, Gunter

[NEW GUINEA] Kilivila : the language of the Trobriand Islanders

Berlin ; New York ; Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. First edition. Series: Mouton Grammar Library, 3. Thick octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth over boards, pp xiii, 598; with line-drawn illustrations and maps; a fine, bright copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to front free-endpaper.

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# 23806

LOEWECKE, Eunice; MAY, Jean

[NEW GUINEA] Fasu (Namo Me) – English dictionary

Ukarumpa, PNG : Summer Institute of Linguistics, [1981]. Royal octavo (204 x 167 mm), printed stiff wrappers, 444 pp; a good copy (some marginal damage to top corners of last 60 leaves); from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. ‘The Fasu language is spoken by approximately 850 people …

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# 23738

BRETT, Richard; BROWN, Raymond; BROWN, Ruth; FOREMAN, Velma

[NEW GUINEA] A survey of Motu and Police Motu.

… Preface by Rev. Percy Chatterton, Motu translation specialist, London Missionary Society. [Port Moresby : Department of Information and Extension Services and the] Summer Institute of Linguistics, [1962]. Quarto, printed wrappers (sunned and with a few light marks), 11 pp; a clean and sound copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate …

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# 23739

LAWES, W. G. (William George) (1839-1907)

Grammar and vocabulary of language spoken by Motu tribe, New Guinea ; by Rev. W. G. Lawes,

with introduction by Rev. Geo. Pratt. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government printer, 1885. First edition. Octavo, contemporary straight grain navy morocco, upper board lettered in gilt (corners bumped, spine scuffed and a little worn at head and tail), pp i-x (Introduction), 1-18 (Grammar), 19-57 (English-Motu Vocabulary), [58 blank], 59-108 (Motu-English); bright and clean, a very …

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# 21703

CARPENTER, C.H.

A revision of Dr. Wade’s rules for the transliteration of foreign terms into Karen. (Presentation copy)

Rangoon : American Mission Press, C. Bennett, 1875. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (lightly foxed), stitch bound, a presentation copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the upper wrapper ‘M.S. Rice Esq., from C.H. Carpenter’; pp 24; text in English and S’gaw Karen script; internally very clean; a near fine inscribed copy. A rare late nineteenth …

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# 19398

CROSSLEY, R.G.; Australia. Commonwealth Office of Education

English for newcomers to Australia

/ prepared by The Commonwealth Office of Education … consultant R. G. Crossley. Adelaide : Printed by Vardon, Price Limited, by authority K.M. Stevenson, Government Printer, 1948. First edition. Octavo, original printed buff card wrappers (foxed), pp 118; the inside front and rear covers with printed form ‘To be completed by class teacher at reception and …

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# 18749

WOO, Z. T. and T. M.

Commercial Press English and Chinese pronouncing pocket dictionary with an appendix.

Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1908. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered cloth (worn), pp. [viii]; 936, text in English and Chinese, small illustrations. Scarce Shanghai imprint.

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# 18906

[COMMISSION CENTRALE D'EXAMENS DE LANGUES ORIENTALES]

Sujets de compositions données aux examens de langue chinoise à Hanoi et Saigon de 1930 à 1940

[Hanoi? Saigon? : Commission centrale d’examens de langues orientales, c.1940]. Quarto, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt ‘Examens de langues orientales’ and initials ‘P. D.’, patterned endpapers, rear pastedown with binder’s ticket of P. Nguyen-Van-Chau (Saigon and Phnom-Penh), title leaf + 132 ff, rectos of odd-numbered leaves with …

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# 18687

ROSNY, L. Léon de (1837-1914)

[THAI LANGUAGE] Quelques observations sur la langue siamoise et sur son écriture.

[Paris] : Imprimerie Impériale, 1855. Octavo, original plain blue wrappers, stitched, pp 16, some very mild scattered foxing, else a fine uncut and unopened copy; text in French, with examples in Thai. Scarce linguistic study on various aspects of Thai by the renowned French Japanologist Léon de Rosny, originally published in the Journal asiatique, no. 17, …

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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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