London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1900. First edition, 12mo, pp. 357, [3]; 8 leaves of color map plates; original terracotta cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges red, yellow glazed endpapers; edges and spine a bit darkened, Baptist Missionary Society Mission House Library bookplate to front pastedown; very..... More
London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1906. 12mo, pp. 374; 8 leaves of color plates; original terracotta cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, black glazed endpapers; edges scuffed and rubbed; front hinge cracked, Baptist Missionary Society Mission House Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper..... More
Paris: Institute d'Ethnologgie, 1928. 2 vols., thick 12mo, orig. cloth-backed boards, each spine incorporating a sleeve for a pencil; pencil present; covers watersatined, mild dampstain pervades text, else good or better. Pro-forma books for linquistic anthropological study, labeled vol. I and vol. II, each with 4 folding pre-addressed envelopes on..... More
[Bloomington: Indiana University, 1998]. Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; about fine. Program of events for the Society's annual meeting. More
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Soner, 1868. 8vo, pp. viii, 564; text in Swedish; quarter calf over marbled boards; spine worn and faded, text toned but sound, very good. An anthology of poetry, literature, and essays for students. Three copies in OCLC. More
London: Longman, [et. al.], 1865. Royal 8vo, pp. 4, xx, 400, 16; 1 folding facsimile in color; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, small crack in upper hinge, extremities and spines rubbed, small cracks and chips at spine ends, covers slightly scuffed, else good or better in contemporary..... More
Yakusu, Stanleyville: Librairie de la B.M.S. [Baptist Missionary Society], 1959. Small 8vo, pp. 51; original yellow printed wrappers (a bit soiled), general light wear, else very good. A small school reader in the Lingala language published for the Yakusu Baptist mission, located outside of today's Kisangani, the capital of the..... More
Shanghai: Commercial Press, Limited, 1925. 8vo, pp. [6], 513, [1], 6, 4, [2]; text in latinized Amoy and hanzi; full green cloth gilt title on spine; title page creased and a little rubbed, near fine. A lesson book with example texts, sentences and some definitions, all in Chinese, for the..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 697; tables and charts throughout; publisher's cloth in tan printed dust jacket, shallow chips and tears along jacket edges, small loss at bottom edge of back jacket cover not affecting text, 1 1/2-inch tear to same edge affecting one letter;..... More
Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1992. Tall 4to, pp. 43, [1]; color photographic illustrations throughout; pictorial staplebound self wrappers, light wear, else very good. At head of cover title: "Tradition & Innovation" More
Washington, D.C. G.P.O., 1943. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 804; lexicon proper in double column; very good, sound copy in orig. tan printed wrappers. More
Roma: Il Calamo, 2003. First edition, 8vo, pp. 211, [5]; fine in original brown wrappers printed in red and black. Biblioteca della Società italiana di glottologia, no. 25. Text in Italian and English. More
New York: A.L. Burt, 1885. First edition, 8vo, pp. 698, [2] ads; text in double column, over 1000 illus. in text; some wear at the extremities, else a good, sound copy in orig. blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Vancil, p. 172 citing the 1888 edition only. More
Philadelphia: J. H. Butler & Co., n.d., [after 1872]. 12mo, pp. 143, [1]; vignette title-p. reproducing the illustration on the front cover; a number of wood-engraved illustrations throughout; original pictorial green paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth; hinges cracked, edges worn, else a very good copy. Issued in the publisher's..... More
London: printed; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725. First edition of the second separately-printed dictionary of slang, 12mo, pp. [156]; later full speckled brown calf, a.e.g.; joints rubbed and tender. Largely based on the earlier A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1951. 8vo, pp. xvi, 943; text illustrations throughout; contemporary three-quarter black morocco over green marble boards, gilt spine, t.e.g., marble endpapers; binding partly detached from text block, shelf wear, most notably along hinges; in all a very attractive copy. All emphasized syllables underlined in..... More
Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Company, 1975. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. [8], 1688, [1]; the dictionary proper printed in double column; some light soiling else fine in like dust jacket. "The first medium-sized, comprehensive English-Chinese dictionary to have been compiled in China since the Great Proletarian Revolution" (jacket blurb). More..... More
Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam, 1946. 16mo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. 53, [3]; ornamented title-page printed in red and black, first page of text rubricated and ornamented; generally a fine copy in orig. dec. yellow paper-covered boards. More
Leipzig: Otto Holtzes Nachfolger, 1900. New stereotype-edition, "revised and improved," third impression, 16mo, 2 volumes in one, pp. [10], 433, [1], [2], 325, [3] (ads); text in double column; original black morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine in 4 compartments; edges scuffed, light spotting to preliminaries, else very good and..... More
Cleveland: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1935. 12mo, pp. 380; publisher's black cloth, gilt-stamped spine, black endpapers, all edges red; shelf wear, most of the spine gilt rubbed away; lacking front free endpaper, small tear to front flyleaf, 1-inch shallow tear along title page edge not affecting text, interior mostly..... More
Calcutta: Bible Society of India & Cyelon [sic] (Calcutta Auxliiary), 1949. Twelfth edition, 16mo, pp. [458]; original blue cloth (some soiling), gilt-lettered spine; shelf wear, else very good and sound. More
Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, for the Bible Translation Society, and the American and Foreign Bible Society, 1845. 8vo, pp. 314, [1]; original grey cloth (soiling from damp), spine head frayed and cracked, two small tears to cloth along upper joint; endpapers browned; textblock about fine. Not in..... More
Calcutta: Printed and published by J.W. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press, for the Bible Translation Society, 1880. 16mo, pp. 604; original brown cloth (dampstaining), printed paper spine label; bottom of upper joint cracked, front hinge weak; contemporary signature to front free endpaper; textblock very good and sound. Not in..... More
Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1848. 8vo, pp. 643; original green cloth, printed paper spine label (browned and partially perished); ex-Baptist Mission House Library with usual 20th-century markings and bookplate to front pastedown, edges and spine a bit scuffed; preliminaries foxed, textblock very good and sound. 5 copies in OCLC as..... More
Baltimore: Ottenheimer, [1956]. 16mo, pp. 239, [1]; original green gilt-lettered leatherette, unadorned spine; very good. At head of title: "This dictionary is not published by the original publishers of Webster's Dictionary or by their Successors." More
