Eastern proverbs and emblems illustrating old truths
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, n.d. [ca. 1890's]. 8vo, xv & 280pp., spine ends cracked, title-p. loosening, soiled, else good and sound in orig. green cloth; ex-MHS. More
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Our vulgar tongue. A lecture on language in general, with a few words on Gloucestershire in particular … with an appendix containing tables of the world-wide affinity of languages.
London: Trübner, 1868. First edition, 8vo, 2 parts in 1, as issued; pp. 51, [1], 62; 3 large folding tables; orig. red cloth-backed printed boards; 3 or 4 small inkspots on cover; binding split at the folding tables, and if there is any consolation in this it is that the..... More
The oceanic languages shemitic
Melbourne: Mason, Firth & M. Cutcheon, printers, 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. 34; near fine in original terracotta wrappers, side-stapled. A paper read at the Royal Society of Australia 11 March, 1886. It includes sections on personal pronouns, and numerals, with an appendix on Australian and Tasmanian numerals. Macdonald was..... More
A history of Greek classical literature. The prose writers. From Isocrates [to Plato]. Third edition, revised throughout.
London & New York: Macmillan, 1890. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 219, 60 (ads); [6], 236, 60 (ads); small cracks at the spine heads but generally a very good, bright and sound set. Of note at the two large publisher's catalogues bound in at the back. More
Does the Bible prohibit a woman from preaching the Gospel?
[n.p.]: [n.d.] (c. 1960's). 12mo, pp. 40; 3 black & white photographic illustrations in the text; yellow printed wrappers stapled; extremities a bit soiled and creased, a few sentences on p. 7 are crossed out in black ink, resulting in some loss to text, overall a good copy. "This little..... More
The national protestant magazine. Volume III, no. 1 to volume III, no. 12
New York: No. 141 Nassau-St., [publisher not identified]. November 1845 to, October, 1846. 12 issues in all, 8vo, text in double column; each issue with a wood-engraved frontispiece; original yellow pictorial wrappers; mild dampstaining; one issue with front wrapper torn in half and with minor loss; all else very good..... More
A discussion on universal salvation, in three lectures and five answers against that doctrine ... To which are4 added two discourses on the same subject by the Rev. Wilbur Fisk ... Published by request
New York: J. Emory and B. Waugh at the Conference Office, 1829. First edition, 12mo, pp. 242; contemporary full sheep, red morocco label on spine; one inch of the upper joint is quite chaffed affecting the edge of the label, some dampstaining to the last half of the text block..... More
Szmimeie-s Jesus Christ. A catechism of the Christian doctrine in the Flat-Head or Kalispél language
[St. Ignatius,] Montana: St. Ignatius Print, 1880. 8vo, pp. [4], 45, [1]; original paper wrapper perished, reinforced in stiff brown library card; pages toned and worn at edges, good. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with release stamp on title page. "These works were put in type and printed by the Indian..... More
First Bulgarian dictionary and grammar in English
A grammar of the Bulgarian language with exercises and English and Bulgarian vocabularies
Galata Constantinople: printed by D. Zankoff, 1859. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 140; Roman and Cyrillic types; bound with: Morse, C. F., Rev., & Constantine Vasiliev. An English and Bulgarian Vocabulary in two parts..., Constantinople: printed by A. Minasian, 1860, pp. 252; Roman and Cyrillic types; lexicon in double column..... More
Dictionary Sinhalese-English / English-Sinhalese
[New Delhi: Publications India, 1992]. 8vo, pp. 336; text in double column; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small snag at the top of the rear joint; all else near fine. More
Pitcairn: the island, the people, and the pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., [ca. 1860]. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, pp. 414; engraved frontispiece, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; mild dampstaining, front free endpaper reinserted, rear free endpaper excised, spine ends cracked..... More
Pitcairn: the island, the people, and the pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., [ca. 1860]. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, [2], xiv, [15]-414, [4] ads; engraved frontis, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and gilt..... More
Acrostic dictionary. The face value of words
Los Angeles: 1915. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [3]-67, [3]; frontispiece portrait; some soilimng else very good in original gray cloth. The good Reverend must have been a little bit of a nut: 'Glutton' = gormand living unretsrained, tending to overeat nauseatingly. And 'Grandmothers' = good revered ancestors near, drying..... More
History of Hennepin County and the city of Minneapolis, including the explorers and pioneers of Minnesota ... and outlines of the history of Minnesota, by J. Fletcher Williams.
Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Company, 1881. First edition, 4to, iv-[vi] & 713pp., 1 full-p. map; extremities rubbed and scuffed, covers worn and somewhat shabby else a very good, sound copy in 3/4 brown publisher's morocco, gilt-stamped upper cover. Minnesota from its organization as a territory, early newspapers, scenery, biographical info..... More
Exercises in the Greek language. A new edition, corrected and enlarged. To which are subjoined, exercises in metaphrasis, paraphrasis, dialects, and prosody … by Charles Anthon.
New York: J. & T. Swords, 1831. 12mo, pp. xii, 211; contemporary and probably original full sheep, black morocco label on spine; small crack starting along front joint; all else very good and sound. More
The cause and cure of infidelity: including a notice of the author's unbelief, and the means of his rescue
New York: American Tract Society, n.d., [1841]. First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. 352; slight wear at edges else a very good, sound copy in original printed yellow wrappers. Most of the edition was bound in cloth. More
Old stone crosses of the vale of Cywyd and neighboring parishes, together with some account of the ancient manners and customs and legendary lore connected with the parishes.
London: Quaritch [and] Woodall, Minshall, & Co., [1886]. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], 208, xxxiii, [1], [6] subscriber's list; engraved frontispiece, 7 plates, numerous illustrations in the text, imitation pebble-grain morocco, raised bands on unlettered spine, very good. More
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. in the years 1835, '36, and '37; containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions... and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives: with a map of Oregon Territory
Ithaca, N.Y. Mack, Andrus, & Woodruff [etc.], 1842. Third edition (first published 1838), 8vo, pp. 408; folding frontispiece map of the Oregon Territory dated 1838, plus 1 engraved plate; in a plain, contemporary full leather binding; moderate wear, waterstains to the first handful of pages, a good and sound copy..... More
Discourse on the life and character of Rev. Francis Wayland, D.D. late president of Brown University. Delivered by invitation of the Alpha Zeta Society of Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill, November 21, 1865
Alton, Illinois: S. V. Crossman & Co., college printers, 1866. First edition, 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; original yellow printed wrappers; neat mended tear across the width of the front wrapper, back wrapper almost detached; ex-New England Genealogical Society with their small bookplate inside the back wrapper and a pressure stamp..... More
The church in Madras being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company ... in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
London: John Murray, 1904-12-22. First edition, Murray issue; 2 volumes, 8vo, 112 illustrations, largely from photographs, on 109 plates plus 5 diagrams in the text; errata leaf in volume 2, manuscript errata tipped into volume III; very good in original red cloth. The book was originally published by Smith Elder..... More
The Perrys of Rhode Island and tales of Silver Creek; the Bosworth-Bourn-Perry homestead...
New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1913. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 115, [1]; frontispiece portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry and 126 portraits and illustrations on plates; original red cloth stamped in gilt on spine, t.e.g.; bookplate of previous owner; spine slightly dull else very good and sound. Influential R.I. family..... More
Monumenta historica Britannica, or materials for the history of Britain, from the earliest period. Volume I [all published]: extending to the Norman Conquest.
London: published by Command of Her Majesty, 1848. First and only edition, large folio, pp. [6], 146, [2], clxxiii, [12], 1035; titles printed in red and black, lithograph dedication in red and black, 17 plates of coins, 10 plates of manuscripts, folding map hand-colored in outline, text in Latin, English..... More
Address delivered before the alumni of Brown University, Tuesday, June 15, 1880 ... Poem by Rev. S. F. Smith
Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1880. 8vo, pp. 45, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. Pierce's address focuses on the public and social duties of the college graduate. More
Intercourse: The Journal of Sexual Freedom, No. 2
New York: Oliver Layton Press, 1965. 7" x 5¼", saddle-stitched, but wrappers separated from text block; pp. 59, [1]; very good. Contributions by Tuli Kupferberg, George Montgomery, and others, with illustrations by Ed Sanders, Arthur Lewis, Jefferson Poland, and Michael Francis Itkin. Among those on the Advisory Committee are Allen..... More
The Idyllia, Epigrams, and fragments of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, with the Eligies of TyrtÊus; translated from the Greek into English verse, to which are added dissertations and notes ... By Richard Polwhele.
London: printed by Whittingham and Rowland for J. Sharpe, [etc.], 1810. 2 volumes, 24mo, pp. vi, [2], 191; 216; engraved frontispiece in each volume; later half polished tan calf, brown morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; very good. More
