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1860008436London; Piccadilly: John Camden Hotten 1860. Second Edition Revised 1860 with two thousand additional words. xvi 300 pp including frontis titled A Canter's Map of a Begging District. Bound in publisher's original pebbled brown cloth gilt lettering at spine blind tooled rules and publisher's blind tooled initials center of front and rear covers dark brown end papers. Very Good contemporary ownership signature of R.N. Payne Sheffield 1860 top of title page later owners inked notations top of title page and verso of front end page pencil note bottom verso front end page 2" closed tear fore edge frontis map 1" fore edge tear p. 169 internally clean and bright. SCARCE in today's market in either the 1859 1st or 1860 2nd Editions. One of the most important works on English slang. . Second Edition Revised. Pebbled Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Camden Hotten Hardcover books
1871WRCAM27691Victoria: T.N. Hibben & Company 1871. 26pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling to covers else very good or better. The earliest citation for the Chinook Jargon is George Gibbs' 1863 edition for the Smithsonian Institution but even there the preface cites an earlier version furnished by a B.R. Mitchell of the U.S. Navy also for the Smithsonian. The present edition is most likely a reprint of the first Hibben edition around 1871. As trading developed throughout the Pacific Northwest this little volume was in high demand. It was reprinted over fifty times this being one of the earlier editions. PILLING CHINOOKAN pp.21-23 32-33. T.N. Hibben & Company unknown books
1825005284Newcastle on Tyne : T. & J. Hodgson for E. Charnley 1825. Engraved armorial dedication lacking the engraved portrait frontispiece. One of 600 copies printed for subscription. . List of subscribers. In 19th century card boards with modern cloth backstrip and paper title label. Very Good boards rubbed and soiled one page has marginal tear top edge. 244 pp. . First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. & J. Hodgson, for E. Charnley Hardcover books
1857007901Paris: V. Baudry's European Library 1857. Title page states "thirty-first edition revised corrected and improved". ix 428 pages. Bound in full contemporary vellum back with red morocco label lettered in gilt on a field of repeating gilt stamped decorations ribbon marker. Near Fine light soiling to boards period inscription at half-title page. A SCARCE edition handsomely bound. . Revised Edition Corrected and Improved . Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. V. Baudry's European Library Hardcover books
1873WRCAM45233New York 1873. 3681pp. Contemporary black leather cover stamped in gilt expertly rebacked in matching calf. Bookplate on front pastedown library ink stamp on verso of titlepage with discard mark. Internally clean and very good. The books of Proverbs and Ezekiel translated into the Zulu language by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Relatively scarce with fewer than ten copies of either title noted on OCLC and no copies appearing in auction records for the past thirty years. Not in Mendelssohn's SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. hardcover books
189947658Chicago: Tiskem a Nákladem Aug. Geringera 1899. First Edition. Octavo 26cm.; original color lithograph wrappers; 240pp.; double frontispiece illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities chipped and a bit dog-eared with loss at both spine ends slightly affecting upper cover extremities a bit toned else Good to Very Good. Text entirely in Czech. Czech-American literary almanac including a daily calendar cartoons poetry jokes short stories and articles on major events of the year in this case the ongoing Dreyfus Affair and the Philippine-American War. Short stories includes tales set among the early Czech settlers of Texas Nebraska and Chicago. Uncommon item in the lovely color lithographic wrappers signed "Nádherny" in image. Tiskem a Nákladem Aug. Geringera unknown books
1808229643New Brunswick NJ: Printed By William Elliot 1808. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner's name written on front paste-down and flyleaf. No pencil or ink markings in text. Waterstain at bottom of first few pages. Full brown leather binding with red spine label gilt lettering. Archival repair to spine. Very Good binding. Printed By William Elliot unknown books
1880WRCAM45684Harbor Springs Mi. 1880. 8pp. 12mo. Original plain wrappers stitched. Minor soiling. Very good plus. Chippewa language alphabet primer and syllabary likely printed at the Franciscan Mission in Harbor Springs where Chippewa and Ottawa children printed numerous prayer books pamphlets and monthly periodicals at the turn of the 20th century. unknown books
1804007922London: Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth 1804. In period James Toovey signed fine binding of gold crushed morocco the back with ornate floral gilt tooled designs and gilt lettering triple gilt rules to covers marbled end papers all edges gilt the armorial bookplate of Johannis Naylor Leightonensis front paste down. Near Fine slight shelf rubs scant toning at end pages a quite handsome book with distinguished provenance. . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Printed for the Author and Sold By J. Booth Hardcover books
1875WRCAM52981New York: American Bible Society 1875. 92pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front hinge cracked spine and corners worn boards scuffed. Shelf label at foot of spine Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Several front endpapers detached. Light tanning. Good. A scarce translation of the Gospel of Matthew into Muskogee published by the American Bible Society. This is the third edition of the work originally translated by R.M. Loughridge and published by the Park Hill Mission Press. This copy was given by Edward Ayer to the Chicago Historical Society in 1901 and was subsequently released as a duplicate. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS MUSKOKI 8. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 2327. American Bible Society hardcover books
1872WRCAM52593Richmond 1872. 252pp. 16mo. Contemporary sheep spine with marbled boards. Spine and corners worn ends chipped. Internally clean. Very good. Styled the "sixth edition" on the titlepage. Hargrett credits this work to Alfred Wright and Cyrus Byington first published in Boston in 1830. Missionaries among the Choctaw for decades they are responsible for a number of works in the Choctaw language. The hymns with translator's initials at the end of each take up the first two hundred pages followed by the Articles of Faith the baptism and marriage rituals twenty-five pages of hymns in English and an index of first lines. GILCREASE-HARGRETT p.123. PILLING MUSKHOGEAN pp.99-100. SABIN 12867 ref. hardcover books
1899006605Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1899. RARE in the 1899 First Edition. Very Good sticker abrasion bottom front and rear wrappers rubbing and a few small stains to wrappers. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page and a few interior pages with blindstamp as well. 48 pp. A Lecture delivered at the request of the Senate of University College Liverpool. Edward Harper Parker 1849-1926 was a barrister and noted China scholar and although not a trained linguist his greatest contribution historically may well be his unusual outlook on colloquial Chinese language. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kelly and Walsh, Limited Paperback books
1876WRCAM52979New York: American Bible Society 1876. 32pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front hinge cracked spine and edges worn boards scuffed. Remnants of shelf label at spine foot Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Front endpapers detaching. Light tanning. Good. A scarce translation of three New Testament epistles published by the American Bible Society. This is the first edition of the work translated by principally by Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson. This copy was given by Edward Ayer to the Chicago Historical Society in 1901 and was subsequently released as a duplicate. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS MUSKOKI 18. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3322. American Bible Society hardcover books
188837326Cleveland: Lauer & Mattill 1888. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's blue-green decorative cloth stamped in black; 4492pp.; frontispiece pictorial ads bound in at front and end of textblock. Boards rather rubbed and worn textblock uniformly toned due to poor paperstock childish pencil scribbles to preliminaries frontispiece starting to separate. Overall an About Very Good only copy. Text entirely in German blackletter. Lauer & Mattill unknown books
1810524Libanon Penn: Gedruckt bey J. Schnee für M. J. Carey in Philadelphia 1810. 12mo. 180 x 115 mm. 7 x 4 ½ inches. 240 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece engraved portrait of Washington and five additional engraved plates. Bound in contemporary mottled calf front board detached rear board cracked with early repair paper stock brown with age but still flexible with foxing throughout. Second German language edition preceded by an edition printed in 1809 in Frederick Maryland. This edition is only illustrated with the portrait of Washington as is the second Frederick edition that appeared in 1810 similarly with only the portrait. In addition to the oval portrait of Washington the Lebanon edition includes engravings of the Death of Montgomery the Defeat of General Braddock the Battle of Lexington the Battle of Bunker Hill the Capture of Major Andre and the Surrender of General Cornwallis. All the engravings are unsigned. Shaw and Shoemaker American Bibliography 21999 19191. Arndt German Language Printing 1761 see Arndt 1661 and 1726 for Frederick editions. Gedruckt bey J. Schnee für M. J. Carey in Philadelphia unknown books
1887019059Victoria British Columbia Canada: B.C. Stationery Co. 1887. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Early edition. Octavo 8vo. 33 pages of text i blank. Original printed wrappers with advertisement on the inside of the covers and on the rear cover; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. The spine perished and the wrappers were archivally reverse hinged. Some soiling sunning/browning to the extremities and minor creasing. The previous owner's name is neatly on the rear endpaper. Stated "New Edition" with a copyright date of 1877. B.C. Stationery Co. Paperback books
188652630Leiden: E. J. Brill 1886. First Edition. xxii 327 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half brown morocco. Bookplate of Max L. Margolis with his signature on title. Somewhat rubbed internally fine. First Edition. xxii 327 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. On Aramaic loan words and phrases in classical Arabic.<br/>With the ownership signature of linguist and scholar of Jewish history Max L. Margolis. E. J. Brill unknown books
1810WRCLIT76048Philadelphia: Gedrucht bey Jacob Meyer. Für Johnson und Warner Bro. 1810. 36pp. 12mo. Early plain stiff salmon wrappers. Typical scattered foxing and slight offsetting but a very good copy. First edition in this format. The woodcut title-vignette is ascribed to A. Anderson. Seven edifying tales for the young. ROSENBACH 418. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 20192. WELCH 431. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 1770. OCLC 207258103. Gedrucht bey Jacob Meyer. Für Johnson und Warner Bro. unknown books
1885WRCLIT76507Milwaukee WI: Druck der Freidenker Publishing Co. 1885. 231pp Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume without wrappers. Short tear in lower blank gutter margin of last leaf otherwise very good. An uncommon separate printing of an address concerning literary education among German- speaking students in the Midwest by the prominent educator poet and collector. OCLC locates two copies: Univ. of Wisconsin Madison and Univ. of Cincinnati. OCLC: 40577856 & 862978908. Druck der Freidenker Publishing Co. unknown books
1807007942London: J. Johnson R. Baldwin W.J.E.J. Richardson et al. 1807. In two volumes contemporary full calf later expertly rebacked with gilt lettering. Very Good small prior owner label even browning light scattered toning boards rubbed later corner repairs. A solid and well-bound set . 4th Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, W.J.E.J. Richardson et al., Hardcover books
1882WRCLIT76506Cincinnati OH: Druck von Mecklenborg & Rosenthal 1882. 371pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume without wrapper. Very good. First separate edition reprinted from the DEUTSCHEN PIONIER of which Rattermann was then editor. OCLC locates eight copies spread between two entries. OCLC: 11382186 &759440812. Druck von Mecklenborg & Rosenthal unknown books
1860007992London: William Tegg 1860. liv 2 739 1 pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Finely bound in contemporary full polished calf the back intricately tooled in gilt with black morocco label gilt end papers and page edges marbled Near Fine slight rubs to calf shadow of engraving to title page. " With numerous additions from the copy prepared by the author for republication: to which is annexed his letter to John Dunning esq. Rev. and cor. with additional notes by Richard Taylor." A quite handsome copy of this rather uncommon edition of Tooke's great philological work. . Later Edition. Full Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Tegg Hardcover books
1882WRCLIT76515Milwaukee WI: Druck der Doerflinger Book & Publishing Co. 1882. 18pp. Octavo. Extracted from none pamphlet volume without wrapper. Very good. First separate edition "Separatabdruck aus den Erziehungsblättern." Fick was a superintendent of the Cincinnati schools writer of children's texts and important collector of German-American educational and literary materials whose collection formed one of the backbones of the Univ. of Cincinnati German-American collection. OCLC locates only two copies: Univ. of Cincinnati and Horner Library. OCLC: 865582461. Druck der Doerflinger Book & Publishing Co. unknown books
1892006542London: T. Fisher Unwin 1892. The First Trade Edition there was also a limited edition of 100 copies. Very Good in the original salmon cloth with black decorations to boards; title in red on front and spine Unwin monogram likewise on rear. Color frontispiece. Spine darkened and red title dulled 3" tear top edge half-title page light foxing to end pages period interesting bookplate front pastedown. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University the only library indicators being its stamp verso of frontispiece and blindstamp to title page. With RARE and important three page ALS tipped to front end page sent from Leland at the Hotel Victoria Florence Italy to Mr Sampson noted linguist John Sampson possiby dated 1899 with "99" after heading. "Dear Mr Sampson I have written and sent you separately by this mail that which I contribute to our book." He then discusses his wishes for the Preface and Introduction before adding "The Tinkers. This is quite unfinished. It needs a great deal from you. Please note that I have got some queer items as to the Tinkers of old times." In the next paragraph he mentions Shelta Shelta Thari being an esoteric language spoken by the tinkers which Leland had discovered in 1876. He goes on to ask "Can you send me an Old Irish alphabet' and later "I hope it will not take you long to put together what you and Professor Meyer will give" referring to Professor Kuno Meyer a German scholar distinguished in the field of Celtic philology and literature. Then an address in Hamburg Germany where he can be reached after June and "Sincerely Charle G. Leland". While I can find no book that these three men published together Sampson and Meyer did much work later to carry forward research and knowledge of the Shelta language and customs. A quite fascinating correspondence and ASSOCIATION COPY. . HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. First Trade Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. T. Fisher Unwin Hardcover books
1802008944Walpole New Hampshire: Printed for Thomas & Thomas by D. Newhall 1802. "The First Walpole Edition from a Copy of the latest Edition printed in London." No copies in current commerce no auction records at RBH. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards 155 pages. Good boards and spine rubbed pages uniformly browned throughout prior owner name small chips at edges of front end page. A complete and solid copy of a RARE Walpole First Edition. Shaw & Shoemaker; Early American Imprints. Second Series ; no. 1728. First Walpole Edition . Quarter Calf. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by D. Newhall, Hardcover books
