Saint Petersburg: VIRD, 2005. Small 8vo, pp. 311, [1]; folding geneological chart laid in, 24 pages of illustrations; blue printed wrappers; light rubbing to wrappers, else fine. Inscribed by I S-K to the linguist Anatoly Liebrman on title page. More
[Reykjavik]: JPV Utgafa, [2009]. Third printing, 8vo, pp. 528; text illustrations; text in Icelandic; full black cloth, gilt cover on spine; fine in fine dust jacket. More
Moscow: Yaziki Slavyanskoi Kultur, 2004. 8vo, pp. 487, [1]; frontispiece and 8 pages of plates; pictorial boards, fine. A collection of papers "devoted to the 'difficult texts' of Old Germanic and Old Irish literatures, from individual lines in Beowulf to individual episodes of the Younger Edda." More
Moscow: Yaziki Slavyanskoi Kultur, 2002. 8vo, pp. 641, [7]; text in Russian; blue pictorial boards; one small correction to text in pen, else fine. Inscribed by the author to linguist and etymologist Anatoly Lieberman. More
Jerusalem: [published by the author], 2019. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 378, [2]; portrait illustration of the author; text in Russian; pictorial boards; a few marginal notes, mostly corrections to the text, very good. More
Moscow: Nauka, 1986. 8vo, pp. 229, [3]; maps in text, folding map laid in; text in Rurssian; full blue cloth, silver title on spine and upper cover; touch of bumping, else fine. From the series "Древнейшие исторчники по истории народов СССР" (The oldest historical accounts of the people of the..... More
Leningrad: Nauka, 1970. 8vo, pp. 137, [3]; text in Russian; full brown cloth; light edgewear, paper toning, lower hinge starting, very good. Inscribed by the author on upper free endpaper. More
Moscow: Russkii Yazyk, 1995. 8vo, pp. 612, [12]; text in double column; red cloth boards, gilt title on spine and upper cover; fine. Inscribed on free endpaper by the author to fellow linguist Anatoly Simonovich (Lieberman). "The dictionary examines about 9 thousand homonymic series of the modern English language, containing..... More
[Turnhout]: Brepols, [2018]. 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 637, [1]; blue pictorial boards; upper hinge cracked, very good. "A collaborative effort involving the input of more than thirty leading scholars around the world... the Research and Reception strad ... establishes a definitive survey of the current and historical uses and interpretations of..... More
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. 8vo, pp. x, [2], 237, [7] (blank); full blue cloth; one light pen correction to the text, else fine in fine dust jacket. "Beginning with the first full-length sagas and culminating in the acknowledged masterpiece Njals saga, Andersson emphasizes a historical perspective, establishing..... More
Moscow: Terra, 1997. 8vo, pp. 638, [2]; illustrated section headers; pictorial boards; paper starting to tone, else fine. Inscribed on half title from "O," likey the compiler. Salt Lake City Public Library only in OCLC. More
New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan, [1991]. 4to, pp. 239, [1], vi, [2]; four color plates and text line illustrations throughout; full green cloth gilt; a touch of toning to edges, else fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. A scarce work and the first to detail..... More
Hong Kong: Xinjiang Art and Photo PRess and Educational and Cultural Press, [1991]. First edition limited to 4,500 copies, 4to, pp. [8], 234, [12]; text in Chinese and English; color illustrations throughout; full black cloth gilt, touch of soiling to boards, else fine. A comprehensive history of the coinage of..... More
South Bend: published by the author, [1927]. 12mo, pp. 157, [3]; printed gray paper wrappers; upper wrapper starting, text clean and sound, very good. An odd appeal to create a national religion, called Jingo. The first part of the book is a survey of world religion, the second is an..... More
New York: Ravi Kumar and Hacker Art Books Inc., [1988]. Edition limtied to 500 copies (this no. 16), 4to, pp. 339, [1]; 108 color and over 130 black and white text illustrations; full red cloth gilt; one corner a little bumped, text clean and sound, fine in a fine dust..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 836; xii, 775, [1]; 2 folding frontispieces (1 in color), wood-engraved half-title in volume I, 15 wood-engraved plates, 56 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and a large folding map in pocket at rear; original blue cloth stamped in..... More
Yokohama: published by the author, 1915. 8vo, pp. xx, 485, [2]; printed Japanese style on folded paper sheets; color frontispiece on mica paper and two folding maps, text illustrations; bound in western style blue cloth boards gilt with Japanese clasps at fore-edge; a touch of foxing, mostly to fore-edge, one..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. Second edition, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xiii(11), [1], 320 (text); [8], 321-47 (notes), [2]; full brown cloth, gilt title on upper cover; fine in fine dust jackets. More
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1962. Second printing, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xi, [1], 563, [1]; viii, 543, [1]; full black cloth, red stained top edges; touch of sunning and wear to spines of dust jackets, fine/near fine. The Shih Chi recounts Chinese history from 209 BC to..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1935]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 358, [2]; 57 illustrations including frontispiece and double-page map; full brown cloth gilt; blue tinted top edge; owner's signature and stamp of A. W. S(later?) on free endpaper; fine. Haslund accompanied Sven Hedin on his Central..... More
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. 12mo, pp. [6], 390, [2]; lithograph frontispiece and three lithograph plates; full green cloth, gilt title on spine; spine sunned, boards soiled, with shadow of old spine label and residue on endpaper likely from old ex-libris material. Modern Dinotopia bookplate on..... More
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1976. 8vo, pp. 174, [2]; text in Russian; green paper wrappers; paper toned, else fine. Inscribed by Steblin-Makensky on the half title page. More
Saint Petersburg: Aleteiya, 2007. First Russian edition, 8vo, pp. 511, [1]; portrait of the translator; blue printed boards; fine. Inscribed by the translator, A. V. Tsimmerling, to the linguist Anatoly Lieberman on title page. More
Moscow: Znak, 2012. 8vo, pp. 660; text in Russian; portrait frontispiece; full red cloth gilt; fine in fine dust jacket, with a memorial photobook "Грани жизни семейного альбома" laid in, with photos of Penkovsky and family. "The book contains the works of A. B. Penkovsky devoated to the study of..... More
Moscow: Yazyki Slavyanskoi Kultury, 2012. 8vo, pp. 654, [2]; text in Russian; blue pictorial boards; spots of staining to boards small tears to lower board, near fine. Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Bondarko, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. "Includes articles by Russian and foreign linguists devoted..... More
