To be or not: an E-prime anthology
San Francisco: International Society for General Semantics, 1991. 8vo, pp. xix, [3], 185; original white wrappers, near fine. More
Linguistics
L'inno di Cædmon e la sua leggenda. Una bibliografia annotata
Firenze: Listino Prezzi e Ordinazioni, 1988. 8vo, pp. x, 151; original tan printed wrappers, fine. Errata leaf bound in back. No. 5 of the Quaderni dell'Istituto di Linguistica dell'Universita di Urbino. An annotated bibliography of Cædmon (fl. ca. 657-ca. 684), the earliest Northumbrian poet whose name is known, thanks to... More
The making of English
New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. Small 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 245; original green cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered spine; spine darkened, edges and corners lightly edge worn; contemporary owner signature on ffep, else interior fine. Copyright date 1904. More
Íslensk málsaga og textafraeði
Reykjavík: Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. 152; fine in original gray printed wrappers. More
Íslensk málsaga og textafraeði
Reykjavík: Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. 152; fine in original printed gray wrappers. More
Beiträge zur skandinavistischen linguistik
Oslo: Novus, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. 323, [1]; fine in original gray pictorial wrappers. Volume I in the Studia Nordica series. Texts in English and German. More
César-Pierre Richelet (1626-1698): biographie et oeuvre lexicographique. With an English summary
Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1986. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 335; charts and facsimiles throughout, text printed from typescript; original brown wrappers printed in black and white; near fine. Lexicographica Series Maior 15. Biographical study of the editor of the first French language dictionary, the Dictionnaire françois, Geneva, 1680. More
César-Pierre Richelet (1626-1698): biographie et oeuvre lexicographique. With an English summary
Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1986. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 335; charts and facsimiles throughout, text printed from typescript; original brown wrappers printed in black and white; near fine. Lexicographica Series Maior 15. Biographical study of the editor of the first French language dictionary, the Dictionnaire françois, Geneva, 1680. More
Current trends in West Germanic etymological lexicography: proceedings of the symposium held in Amsterdam, 12-13 June 1989
Leiden, New York, Koln: E.J. Brill, [1993]. 8vo, pp. x, 163, [2]; fine in original beige wrappers. More
A word geography of California and Nevada
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, 228; University of California publications in linguistics volume 69; maps, graphs, index; minor edgewear, else very good in yellow printed wrappers. More
James C. Pilling's copy
The lineal measures of the semi-civilized nations of Mexico and Central America
[Philadelphia: n.p., 1885]. 8vo, pp. 14, [2]; original tan printed paper wrappers, wrappers toned, light wear with a small chip to the back wrappers. Very good. James Pilling's personal copy, with his signature on the upper cover above stamp reading, "compliments of the author." An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with Newberry... More
The Maya chronicles
Philadelphia: D. G. Brinton, 1882. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, [2], 9-279, [1]; title page printed in red and black; later brown library cloth, gilt lettering direct on spine; good and sound. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a Newberry Library bookplate, a small rubberstamp at the base of the... More
On polysynthesis and incorporation as characteristics of American languages
Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, 1885. First separate edition (originally issued in The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society); 8vo, pp. 41, [1]; original printed wrappers, stitching perished, otherwise very good. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate, with a Newberry release stamp inside the front wrapper. Pilling, Algonquin, p. 58: "Examples in Cree... More
Germanic dialects: linguistic and philological investigations
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 693, [3]; very good in original red and white cloth. Issued as vol. 38 in the Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory. More
Studies in lexicography
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Advance review copy with printed slip laid in, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 200; 8 tables and figures in the text; a near fine copy with boards very slightly bowing and faint brown spotting to top edge of textblock. Ten essays on English dictionaries, from the OED... More
Language made plain
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 186; text illustrations; original cloth in plum printed dust jacket; shallow chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text; interior fine. "Language that makes a difference--the subtleties of sounds, words, meanings--explained by a leading British novelist" - jacket cover. More
Mantica e mito nell'antica poesia germanica
Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 1993 [i.e. 1997]. 8vo, pp. 206; fine in original cream pictorial wrappers. Includes excerpts of Old English and Old High German texts with Italian translation. More
Johannis Buxtorfi Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum: complectens omnes voces, tam primas quàm derivatas, qua in Sacris Bibliis, Hebræâ, & ex parte, Chaldaeâ linguâ scriptis, extant: interpretationis fide, exemplorum Bibliocorum copiâ, locorum plurimorum difficilium ex variis Hebræorum commentariis explicatione, auctum & illustratum ... Editio tertia, ab authore recognita
Basileæ: Ludovic König, 1621. Small, thick 8vo, pp. [16], 960, [71]; full 18th-century vellum, gilt spine, black morocco spine label, manuscript imprint information added to spine foot; a number of leaves browned and/or foxed, else a very good, sound copy. Buxtorf was a leading Hebrew scholar of the late 16th... More
Johannis Buxtorfi Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum: complectens omnes voces, tam primas quàm derivatas, qua in Sacris Bibliis, Hebræâ, & ex parte, Chaldaeâ linguâ scriptis, extant: interpretationis fide, exemplorum Bibliocorum copiâ, locorum plurimorum difficilium ex variis Hebræorum commentariis explicatione, auctum & illustratum ... Editio tertia, ab authore recognita
Basileæ: Ludovic König, 1621. Small, thick 8vo, pp. [16], 960, [71]; contemporary full calf, joints cracked, cords holding; one-inch sliver missing from top spine panel, some worming in the margins of Q1-R2 and 2H1-2K6; a number of leaves browned and/or foxed, else a very good, sound copy. Buxtorf was a...... More
Lexicon hebraicum et chaldaicum: complectens omnes voces, tam primas quàm derivatas, quæ in Sacris Bibliis, Hebræâ, & ex parte, Chaldæâlinguâ scriptis, extant: interpretationis fide, exemplorum Bibliocorum copiâ, locorum plurimorum difficilium ex variis Hebræorum comentariis explicatione, auctum & illustratum
Basileæ: Ludovici König, 1631. Editio quarta & ultima, 8vo, pp. [16] 974, [78]; ):(8 A-Zz8 AA-2V8; woodcut printer's mark, initials, and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title; spine considerably darkened; slightly later (1682) ownership inscription on front free endpaper, ink notes and blots throughout, most notably to... More
Lexicon hebraicum et chaldaicum: complectens omnes voces, tam primas quàm derivatas, quæ in Sacris Bibliis, Hebræâ, & ex parte, Chaldæâlinguâ scriptis, extant: interpretationis fide, exemplorum Bibliocorum copiâ, locorum plurimorum difficilium ex variis Hebræorum comentariis explicatione, auctum & illustratum
Basileæ: Francisci Plateri & Joh. Philippi Richteri, 1698. Editio decima, 8vo, pp. [16], 976, [76]; engraved frontispiece portrait by J. G. Seiller, woodcut ornaments; full contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title (faded); later (mid-19th century) ownership inscription on pastedown, occasional ink notes and underlinings in a contemporary hand; all else generally... More
Lingua eruditorum; sive methodica institution linguae sanctae… Cui addita est introductio ad linguam Chalaeam Veteris Testamenta, authore eadem.
Londini: J. Flesher, 1664. Editio novissima, 12mo, pp. [2], [16] table, 132; one folding table printed in black and red showing "De verbo paradigma explicitum conjugationum Hebraicarum;" contemporary calf with modern rebacking, title and date stamped in gilt on spine, the boards worn and stained and a few smudges to... More
Studies in the history of the English language III: managing chaos: strategies for identifying change in English
Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 301; being volume 53 in the publisher's Topics in English Linguistics series; fine throughout in original blue laminate boards. More
The life and mind of Oriental Jones: Sir William Jones, the father of modern linguistics
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1990]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xix, [1], 409; frontispiece portrait, near fine in dust jacket. Jones was the first to theorize that there was a common language source, namely, Indo-European. More
The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly call the king of the beggars: being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of Gipsies … with his travels twice through a great part of America: giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws and customs of the Gipsies; with the method of electing their King; and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants.
London: Thomas Martin, 1788. 12mo, pp. [2], 203; engraved portrait frontispiece of Carew; full contemporary sheep, red morocco label; small, scallop-size chip from the fore-margine of the title page, prelims a little foxed, else a very good, sound copy. An interesting piece of Americana, first published in 1745. "For misdemeanors... More
