![Brahu i Urdu asan gramar [= Grammar of the Brahui language]. Pir Muhammad Zubairani](/images/noimage.png)
Quetta: Brāhūʼī Adabī Akaiḍmī, [c 1971]. 12mo, pp. 112; text in Urdu; pink printed wrappers; ex library, with discard stamp and sticker residue on upper cover, and pen note on verso of title page, text clean and sound. The Brahui language is Dravidian, even though its speakers are spread out..... More
[Milan: 1821. Engraved double-page map hand-colored in outline (approx. 17" x 21" overall; image size approx. 13" x 16"); slightly stained in the margins, some wrinkling; all else very good. Italian map of Hispaniola (incorporating Haiti and Santo Domingo), with a large inset map of Jamaica, based on the work..... More
Philadelphia: 1830. 12mo, pp. 47, [1]; 17 engraved plates including frontispiece of the tree of shorthand; original cloth backed boards; light soiling and foxing, owner's signature, a good, sound copy. "Gould's system is taken chiefly from Harding's Taylor Improved" (Bibliography of Shorthand p. 47). More
Chicago: Frank S. Gray, 1886. Small 4to, 139, [6] leaves, printed from typescript on rectos only, tabular bound; "profusely illustrated by pencil sketches also a cabinet photograph of Grace Harton," original pictorial wrappers, large chip in lower right corner; very good. Howes D-41. Phillips, p. 93: "A loquacious description, partly..... More
New York: Random House, [1992]. First edition, oblong 4to, pp. vi, [1], 392; illustrated throughout almost entirely in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 27, [1]; original black wrappers (loose, but present), printed label on upper cover; very good. This copy inscribed "to Albert Parsons Loeb, a trivial but sincere token of affection, P. R. Stephenson, London 1929" and additionally inscribed "To the same..... More
Hanoi: Song Nhi, [1951]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 62, [2]; text in Vietnamese, 1955 inscription in Vietnamese on title page, occasional pencil notations within text, pages toned, some neat underlining of chapter headings in color pencil, old tape reinforcement on spine, else good in original printed wrappers. The dream narrative..... More
New York: N.Y. Public Library, 1937; republished by Gale Research, 1967. 8vo, pp. [2], xxxii, 560; fine copy in orig. brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine. More
Kobenhavn: C.A. Reitzels, 1861. Second, augmented edition, oblong 4to, pp. [8], 204; printed music throughout; original pictorial wrappers; spine mostly perished but still very good. Inscribed by the author to Prof. George Stephens, the philologist and runic archaeologist. More
Kobenhavn: G.H. Jaegers, 1845. Oblong 4to, approx. 60 unbound signatures of printed music, many of them separately paginated, one of them in orig. printed tan wrappers, with 2 separately printed title-pp. (Vol. 1 1842 and vol. 3 1845), grouped by nationality, viz. Hollandske og flanderske folke-sange, Danske folke-sange, Bohmiske folke-sange..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1947. 8vo, pp. 211, [1]; 20 plates plus illustrations in the text; previous owner's inscription, slightly cocked, else a very good copy in the dust jacket. Accurate and skillfully epitomized historical survey, well illustrated. More
Boston: James Means, 1909. 8vo, pp. [12], self-wrappers; fine. 6 in OCLC. The apparatus, as described by Means, is suitable for military scouting. The text of this pamphlet is in English, French and German. More
Krakow: [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. 8vo, pp. 103, [7]; text in Polish; text illustrations; printed paper wrappers; wrapper toned with small chip to corner and closed tear to lower wrapper, near fine. Inscribed by Borwicz to a Dr. Lewinowi. Publisher's prospectus (pp. 8) laid in. An account of the..... More
Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1965. Later printing, 8vo, pp. 284; text in Norwegian; 40 plates, text illustrations; full blue cloth, fine in a rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Laid in are some clippings and manuscript notes on Nordic exploration and the Vinland map. Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne were..... More
[Chicago]: Hrvatskog Kat. Glasnika i Danice, 1966. 8vo, pp. 200; text in Croatian; text illustrations; illustrated printed wrappers; wrappers creased, the title translated to English on cover in pen, textblock clean and sound with just the very beginning of a couple tears to foreedge, very good. With poetry, cultural notes..... More
Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1941. 8vo, three volumes; uniformly bound in half black calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled spines with titles in two compartments; spines and corners rubbed, pages starting to tone, but otherwise clean and sound. The Bjørndal trilogy was one of the most successful Scandinavian novels..... More
Munchen: Bruckmann, [1969]. 4to, pp. 192; text in German; 491 text illustrations, 36 in color; pictorial printed boards; near fine. Classic 1970s interior design. More
[Ann Arbor]: Hermitage, 1983. First edition, 8vo, pp. 159, [1]; text in Russian, printed paper wrappers; small tide stain to bottom of foreedge, not permeating textblock, very good. Volokhonsky was an environmental scientist, poet, playright, and lyric writer. More
Greifswald: [Rektor der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität], 1976. 8vo, pp. 197, [3]; text in German, printed paper wrappers; head of spine chipped, slightly toned, very good. Papers from a conference convened by the Wissenschaftlicher Rat of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. More
Belgrade: Prosveta, 1968. Fifth edition, 8vo, pp. 444, [4]; text in Serbian; unopened, printed paper wrappers; spine toned and a little soiled, else near fine. Biographies of the Serbian realists. More
Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 1989. 8vo, pp. 187, [5], 10, [2]; text in Russian with English summaries; 9 full-page illustrations, maps; printed paper wrappers; abrasion to upper wrapper, bookseller's ticket on lower wrapper, text clean and sound, very good. Papers on nuthatches in Sakhalin, storm-petrels, aging of pied flycatchers, Japanese..... More
Leningrad: Gidrometeorologicheskoe Izdatelstvo, 1969. 8vo, pp. 185, [3]; text in Russian with English summaries; text illustrations; black cloth titled in silver; textblock starting to tone, else clean and sound, near fine. Contains articles on the polar bear's origin, phylogenetic links and evolution, geographical variability and population structure, former and present-day..... More
Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1974. 8vo, pp. 328, [4]; text in Russian with summaries in Georgian and English; two folding charts and folding map of the Caucasus; printed paper wrappers; wrappers a little creased, else very good and sound. 31 brief papers. More
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 175, [1]; full burgundy cloth; fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelberg: Springer, 1957. 8vo, pp. viii, 367, [1]; unopened, printed paper wrappers, with bibliography and index; touch of soiling to cover, near fine. More
