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1898006557London: Henry Frowde 1898. RARE in the First Edition. Very Good from the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page gilt titles and designs cloth a bit faded at spine end pages toned light rubbing to cloth at tips overall a well-cared for and lovely copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Henry Frowde Hardcover books
1867853441867. CHINESE LANGUAGE WADE Thomas Francis. WEN-CHIEN TZU-ERH CHI A SERIES OF PAPERS SELECTED AS SPECIMENS OF DOCUMENTARY CHINESE Designed to Assist Students of the Language as Written by the Officials of China. In Sixteen Parts with Key. London: Trubner & Co. 1867. First edition. Two quarto volumes. xii 456 pp.; iv7252 pp. 30 x 23 cm. The second volume has a separate title-page: KEY TO THE TZU ERH CHI. DOCUMENTARY SERIES. VOLUME I. CONTAINING TRANSLATIONS OF PAPERS 1 TO 75 AND NOTES TO PAPERS 1 TO 65 INCLUSIVE. Depsite the Volume 1 designation there were no further volumes published. Both volumes have the title in Chinese characters at the head of the title-page as well as a contemporary ink ownership of J. E. Woodruff. In worn and rubbed contemporary bindings with marbled sides. Both volumes are missing the original red leather backstrip. The spine of the first volume WEN-CHIEN TZU-ERH CHI has been neatly covered with brown cloth tape and its hinges strengthened with white cloth tape. Additionally Volume 1 shows internal and external evidence of worming. Internally the worm damage is confined to the margins without affecting the text and there are some pencil notes. Sir Thomas Francis Wade 1818-1895 a British soldier turned diplomat and Sinologist was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University. He developed a system of romanizing the Chinese language based on pronunciation conventions of the Beijing dialect. The system was later modified by Herbert Giles another diplomat and scholar who had succeeded him as professor of Chinese at Cambridge and became known as the Wade-Giles system. It was widely used throughout much of the twentieth century to represent the sounds of Mandarin in Western publications and is still used to represent some personal and place names. This work was prepared with the express purpose of preparing individuals destined to join Her Majesty's Consular Service in China with the written language of government as it appeared in books and in official correspondence. Cordier III 1689; DNB. unknown books
1887863771887. LANGUAGE STUDY KOIDE Seijiro translator. WEBSTER'S SPELLING BOOK SUPERURINGU KAISEI DOKUANNAI. Osaka Umehara sic Mumehara Meiji 20 1887. 12mo. Bound Western-style printed paper over boards. ii 90 i. Heavily illustrated orthographic guide to English with katakana captions. Some ink spotting and cover wear overall good condition. Unusual work. unknown books
188115975New York: D. Appleton & Co 1881. 1st edition. Original brown publishers cloth stamped in gilt & black. Red edgestain. Flower patterned eps. VG avg wear/pos. 201 pp 8 pp of publisher adverts. 12mo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
1850WRCAM41217Park Hill: Mission Press. Edwin Archer printer 1850. 120pp. Lacks pp.17-18 47-48. 12mo. Dbd. Light to moderate foxing and soiling. Several signatures loose. Fair. The fifth edition of this Park Hill imprint printed entirely in Cherokee except for part of the title which is in English; this work uses Sequoyah's syllabary generally called the "Cherokee alphabet". The translators were Samuel Austin Worcester and Elias Boudinot. As a young man living with his parents in New England Worcester had met and become friends with Buck Oowatie a Cherokee whose name among Anglos was Elias Boudinot. Worcester studied for the ministry and after he had been ordained he requested a post among the Cherokee. Once there he set to introducing printing newspapers and expanded literacy using Sequoyah's syllabary. One of only 5000 copies printed. HARGRETT OKLAHOMA 145. PILLING IROQUOIAN p.172. PILLING PROOF SHEETS 4224. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS CHEROKEE 7. Mission Press. Edwin Archer, printer unknown books
1867WRCAM45602New York 1867. 274pp. Original brown publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Extremities worn library call number on spine. Bookplates on each pastedown several ink stamps on outer leaves. Text clean. Good plus. For use among the missionaries in Africa. Mpongwe was spoken along the Gabun and Ogowe Rivers in French Equatorial Africa. hardcover books
1827522Chambersburg Pa: Published by Timotheus Evans J. Pritts Printer 1827. 12mo. 175 x 105 mm. 7 x 4 ¼ inches. 264 pp. Contemporary mottled calf red leather label chipped; joints cracked binding scuffed. Faded signature of Chas. Eichholtz dated September 23 1827 on the title-page. First German language edition printed with English text on verso of the previous page; English text set in Roman type. American Imprints 28721. Arndt German Language Printing II 2851. OCLC cites copies at Chicago Millersville and the German Society of Pennsylvania; NUC adds Philadelphia Historical. Published by Timotheus Evans, J. Pritts, Printer unknown books
1870530Montreal 1870. About very good. 17pp. Quarto. Original plain wrappers bound into contemporary buckram gilt spine label. Light foxing and wear to buckram. Front hinge cracking front endpaper detaching. Two chips at fore-edges of final two leaves not affecting text otherwise internally clean. Accomplished in a neat legible hand. A fascinating if somewhat eccentric manuscript essay on South American linguistic history and its supposed connections to Gaelic languages by a Scottish-Canadian professor at the Presbyterian College of Montreal. John Campbell was principally a professor of church history but was also a serious student of anthropology philology and linguistics and published numerous articles and monographs on a wide variety of subjects. Campbell was born in Edinburgh and immigrated to Montreal via London and Toronto in the 1870s where he was appointed to a professorship in 1873. His wide-ranging publications include scholarly and polemical essays in various academic journals a volume of children's story sermons and a novel set in the Muskoka region of Ontario. His most well-known work was a two volume ethnographic study entitled "The Hittites" in which he claimed that the people were descendants of the Japanese Basques and Peruvians among others. "Later critics with reason considered him an academic dilettante" - Canadian Dictionary of Biography. The present work continues such grandiose thinking and claims a linguistic and genealogical link between the Aymara peoples of Peru and Bolivia and the Celts. Through the comparison of selected words in Aymara Quechua Gaelic and Welsh complete with several tables and appendices Campbell argues that "The large number of words identical in form and meaning in the two languages suffice to establish the common origin of Celts and Aymaras." The essay continues to make additional comparisons with Quechua and cites the research of Hyde Clark as the inspiration for its line of inquiry. Campbell likely prepared this essay as one of his many contributions to Canadian academic journals. In an article he published in the journal of the Royal Society of Canada at the turn of the 20th century he states that 'Some years previous I pointed out a large Celtic element in the dialects of Peru and notably in that of the Aymaras." Hyde Clark references Campbell's theories in this area in his own book "The Khita and Khita-Peruvian Epoch" published in 1877. Nevertheless we are unable to locate a published version of this essay. A strange yet enthusiastic work asserting a tenuous theory of native Peruvian language. unknown books
1831007946Paris: Crapelet 1831. SCARCE. In full contemporary red morocco signed "Lebrun Relieur" the back covered with repeating gilt decoration the covers with triple gilt rule outer border and triple gilt rule inner border around gilt tooled floral band and with gilt decorations at corners all edges gilt marbled end papers a lovely example of early 19th century fine French binding. Very Good mInus old dampstain mostly to margins and where in text not affecting legibility rear end page edge chipped small chip to morocco at head of spine. With two fold-out facsimiles at rear one in color. First Edition. Morocco. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Crapelet Hardcover books
1883WRCLIT76505Cincinnati OH: Druck von Mecklenborg & Rosenthal 1883. 20pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume without wrapper. Illustrations. Printed in double columns. Very good. First edition. "Gehalten vor dem Deutschen Literarischen Verein von Cincinnati." Sittel d.1904 was a prominent physician in Cincinnati known for his personal interest in microbiology. OCLC locates a single copy at NY Historical. OCLC: 58663364. Druck von Mecklenborg & Rosenthal unknown books
1880WRCAM52980New York: American Bible Society 1880. 99pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front board detached corners and spine ends worn boards rubbed. Shelf label at spine foot Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Front endpapers detaching. Some tanning. Good. A scarce translation of the Gospel of Luke into Muskogee and the only stand-alone edition of Luke produced in the language according to Ayer published by the American Bible Society. "A small portion of this work was translated originally by Rev. Mr. Ramsay with the help of an incompetent interpreter. It was retranslated by Mrs. A.E.W. Robertson with the assistance in correcting of Rev. Thos. W. Perryman and N.B. Sullivan" - Pilling. 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 10. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3325. American Bible Society hardcover books
1875WRCAM52978New York: American Bible Society 1875. 73pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front hinge cracked light edge wear corners and spine ends worn. Shelf label at spine foot Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Front endpapers detaching. Some tanning. Good. A scarce translation of the Gospel of John into Muskogee published by the American Bible Society. This is the second edition of the work translated by the Reverend W.S. Robertson and his wife. This copy was given by Edward Ayer to the Chicago Historical Society in 1901 and was subsequently released as a duplicate. AYER INDIUAN LINGUISTICS MUSKOKI 12. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 2335. American Bible Society hardcover books
1877007997Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1877. RARE edition not found at WorldCat. Text entirely in greek. 562 with 2 pp. publisher's ads. Book measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/2". Bound in contemporary crushed red morocco five raised bands and gilt lettering gilt leaf decorations to covers top edge gilt marble end papers binding stamped in gilt J.R. Gray & Son Cambridge. Near Fine spine faded to brown. . First Edition. Crushed Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Wide 8vo . E Typographeo Clarendoniano Hardcover books
1857228733Paris: Au Bureau De L'Abeille Medicale 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 1/4 leather over paper covered boards. Very Good binding. Au Bureau De L'Abeille Medicale unknown books
1831007941London: Longman Brown and Co.; T. Cadell; J. M. Richardson Whittaker and Co. Etc. 1831. SCARCE< the 8th Edition 1831. In two volumes Vol. I Spanish and English; Vol. II Ingles y Espanol. "Thoroughly revised greatly improved enlarged by the addition of many thousand words and the two parts most carefully collated by M. Seoane M.D.". Finely bound in signed Riviere contemporary binding of full calf the backs ornately tooled in gilt with gilt lettering on red and brown morocco labels marbled end papers all edges gilt. Very Good Plus early expert repair rear cover Vol. II covers lightly rubbed moderate toning to end papers only. A quite handsome set. . 8th Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longman, Brown and Co.; T. Cadell; J. M. Richardson, Whittaker and Co., Etc. Hardcover books
1846253449Paris: P. Boizarad Editeur Successeur De G. Kugelmann 1846. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustre De 200 Dessins Par Les Artistes Les Plus Distingues; No pencil or ink markings in text. Light scattered foxing in text. Black cloth spine; green cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Text written in French. Corners bumped. of book ; Previous Owner Name;. Very Good binding. P. Boizarad, Editeur, Successeur De G. Kugelmann unknown 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
