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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
1910007966N.Wales: Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only 1910. Bound in half vellum over dark blue buckram gilt rules and lettering top edge gilt marbled end papers the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. Near Fine corners bumped small tear to buckram top edge rear cover. An unnumbered copy on Japanese Vellum Paper. . Limited Edition. Half Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only Hardcover books
1892008564Boston: Little Brown and Company 1892. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt decorations front cover and spine top edge gilt black end papers.The Ninth Edition of this classic work published in 1892 and the last edition edited by Bartlett himself. Very Good Plus small rubs to cloth prior owner name in ink top of title page dated 1894. A quite handsome copy indeed. . Ninth Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Thick 8vo. Little Brown, and Company Hardcover books
200538676Amherst:: Prometheus Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1591023432 . First printing. About fine in like dust jacket. . Prometheus Books, hardcover books
181051Vantage Press. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Vantage Press unknown books
199721597NY: Copernicus Springer-Verlag. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0387982418 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Copernicus (Springer-Verlag) hardcover books
1891WRCAM55543Desmet Id.: Indian Boys' Press 1891. 6255iv pp. Original pebbled cloth. Minor wear to extremities. Stamp of the St. Joseph's Mission in Slickpoo Idaho on front free endpaper. Very good plus. A rare and early work on the Nez Perce language. The basic text and the first titlepage are printed in Latin befitting a Jesuit work. Nez Perce is a highly endangered language with the estimated number of current fluent speakers at fewer than one hundred. As native speakers of this and other Native American languages disappear these grammars will become more and more important and correspondingly more rare. <br> <br> Some identify Anthony Morvillo as the author of this Nez Perce grammar including Edward Ayer; others credit Joseph Cataldo including Wilberforce Eames and Charles W. Smith. OCLC lists about fifteen copies under both authors. The work is exceedingly rare in the marketplace. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS NEZ PERCE 5. SMITH PACIFIC NORTHWEST AMERICANA 621. SCHOENBERG 79 the Decker copy. DECKER 37:147a. SOLIDAY 562. Indian Boys' Press hardcover books
199422446Cambridge: MIT Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0262011379 . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books
200533016Beijing: Min zu chu ban she 2005. Di 3 ban. A fine copy. As new. 71 1909 p. 3 leaves of plates. 4to. Mongolian-Chinese dictionary. Min zu chu ban she unknown books
1948006652London: Oxford University Press for Intl. African Inst. 1948. All five volumes are Very Good Plus sticker shadow front wrappers inked name "Herzog" front wrappers and "Herzog Collection" stamp front end pages from the collection of noted folklorist and linguist George Herzog minor wear to wrappers contents are clean tight and unmarked. Publication dates 1948-1956. SCARCE as a collection. Four volumes with maps rear pockets one with rear fold-out map all maps are present and Fine. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford University Press for Intl. African Inst. Paperback books
186312138Utrecht: J.G. Broese & Ghent: Willem Rogghe 1863. First edition 2 volumes 8vo; both volumes in contemporary red morocco a.e.g. gilt gilt decorations on covers and spines some staining inside back cover of Vol. I some rubbing light staining on covers and spines else fine. Proceedings from the fourth and seventh Dutch language scholars' congress held in Utrecht. The discussions include lectures on rewriting the Dutch grammar tautology education Dutch and Flemish dialects plus some original poetry. <br/><br/> J.G. Broese & Ghent: Willem Rogghe unknown books
1952008983Wiesbaden Germany: Otto Harrassowitz 1952. Vols. I and II published 1952 Vol. III 1955. Hauer's classic Manchurian-German dictionary RARE in the First Edition. Three volumes in original printed wrappers Very Good small tears and wear ay spines. pages uniformly browning chips at wrapper corners of Vol. III. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Otto Harrassowitz paperback books
18691785New York: American Bible Society 1869. Very good plus. 65; 47pp. 12mo. Contemporary black morocco stamped in gilt and blind. Corners and spine ends rubbed. Light toning to text. A handsomely bound copy of two books of the Pentateuch printed in Dakota by the American Bible Society. The translator Thomas Williamson 1800-1879 was a doctor and missionary who worked with the Dakota Indians in Minnesota and helped develop the first written alphabet and grammar of the Dakota language. During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 he and his family were protected by Christianized members of the tribe who subsequently helped them escape to safety. He was instrumental in convincing President Lincoln to pardon twenty-five of the men who had been taken prisoner following the revolt and after Lincoln's death he advocating with Andrew Johnson for the pardon and release of the remaining men. The present two works are the first and only stand-alone editions of Exodus and Leviticus in Dakota published by the Bible Society thought they often are bound together as here. The translations appeared again in 1872 in an edition that also included Genesis and Deuteronomy; the entire Bible in Dakota was completed and published in 1879. Scarce. Ayer Dakota 28 Exodus. Pilling Proof Sheets 4160. Pilling Siouan p.78. American Bible Society unknown books
198935747NY:: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0195055039 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1972223073India: Allied Publishers Private Limited 1972. Reprinted. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner's name written at top of ffep. Scant underlining in text. Red library cloth spine and stiff paper boards. Very Good binding. Allied Publishers Private Limited unknown books
1868241701Barcelona: Montaner Y Simon editores 1868. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Sold as a 3 volume set. Full leather binding with light edgewear to extremities. Text in Spanish. ; no markings in text. Very Good binding. Montaner Y Simon, editores unknown books
1887WRCAM52677New York: American Tract Society 1887. 96pp. 12mo. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards spine gilt t.e.g. Front hinge cracking but solid light shelf wear. Bookplates on front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good. Edward Ayer's copy of this Omaha language tract containing sixty-two hymns as well as the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments. The author William Hamilton arrived and the Presbyterian mission to the Omaha in Nebraska in 1853 and remained there until his death. He wrote a number of Indian missionary works principally for the Omaha and Iowa languages. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS DHEGIHA 7 this copy. PILLING SIOUX pp.32. American Tract Society hardcover books
199722606NY: Henry Holt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0805050949 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Henry Holt hardcover books
1946253585Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells skolbocker 19461946. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Slight bumping to corner edges; red cloth binding with black lettering; previous owner bookplate and name on ffep; otherwise no markings in text. Very Good binding. Almqvist & Wiksells skolbocker unknown books
1896008980Helsingfors: mprimerie de la Société de Littérature Finnoise 1896. 224 pp. text in French. SCARCE in the First Edition. Near Fine small loss of paper at head of spine top corner crease rear wrapper. Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen 1842-1927 was a Danish linguist and Turkologist considered one of the greatest linguists of all time. His successful translation of the Orkhon inscriptions opened the window into the Old Turkic alphabet. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. mprimerie de la Société de Littérature Finnoise Paperback books
1937006795London: The Viking Society for Northern Research Univ. Of London 1937. RARE. Reprinted from Saga-Book Vol. XII. Fine in stapled wrappers small inked notations top edge front cover. 18 pp. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Viking Society for Northern Research, Univ. Of London Paperback books
18711297Nu Yoka 1871. Very good. 115pp. Later black cloth; original black morocco cover laid down gilt. Minor toning and soiling a few pencil notes. The Book of Psalms in Hawaiian published in New York by the American Bible Society. According to Judd there were editions in both 1869 and 1871 each printed in a run of about 250 copies. Though not uncommon institutitionally relatively rare in commerce with no records appearing in auctions. Judd 456. unknown books
199121905Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0812230604 . First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover books
1982240587Sarmen Book Company 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 163pp. Red cloth binding with very light edgewear at top of spine. Top of dustjacket spine is chipped. Small closed tears at bottom dustjacket spine. Stain on top front dj cover at flap and on flap; dust jacket is protected in a mylar cover; no markings in text. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Sarmen Book Company unknown books
199037319San Diego:: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine. 1990. Paperback. 0156482401 . Seventh printing thus paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Harcourt Brace & Company, paperback books
