Íslensk málsaga og textafraeði
Reykjavík: Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. 152; fine in original printed gray wrappers. More
Reykjavík: Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. 152; fine in original printed gray wrappers. More
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
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
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
Leiden, New York, Koln: E.J. Brill, [1993]. 8vo, pp. x, 163, [2]; fine in original beige wrappers. More
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
[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
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
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
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
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" -..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lawrence: Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1975. 8vo, pp. 40; printed from scripted text; original tan pictorial wrappers; near fine. Publication based on an independent study made by a group of students at the University who taught beginning Latin in the Eudora, Kansas public school system. "Since the..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942. 8vo, pp. xii, 263; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 1 1/2-inch crack in cloth at front top edge, spine lettering almost entirely effaced; contemporary signature on ffep, else interior fine. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947. 8vo, pp. viii, 210; original cloth in green printed dust jacket (back cover browned); chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text, price on front flap has been torn out; contemporary bookseller's ticket on front pastedown, interior fine. More
Padova, Italy: Unipress, [1997]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], vii, [1], 420; portrait frontispiece, generaloly fine in original white printed wrappers. Quaderni del Dipartimento di linguistica, Studi no. 4. More
[Milano]: Cisalpino-Goliardica, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 139; fine copy in original black pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. More
[Orleans: imp. Georges Jacob, n.d., 1883?]. 8vo, pp. 8; preliminary material in French; text in Spanish and Tojolabal in parallel columns; printed presentation slip ("Avec tous les compliments de l'Auteur, de Charencey") laid in; very good in library boards, black lettering on spine. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate, with an Ayer..... More