Reykjavík: Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. 152; fine in original printed gray wrappers. 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

[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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

[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