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

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

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

Prague: Cercle Linguistique de Prague, 1936. 8vo, pp. [4], 294; papers in German, French and English; black cloth backed in black leather; original wrappers lacking, spine rubbed, a few dog eared leaves, very good. The Prague school was an influential linguistics and literature society. Its members established a number of..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 200; 8 tables and figures in the text; a near fine copy in the dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Ten essays on English dictionaries, from the OED to..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. 8vo, pp. xli, [1]; light spotting to the binding else a near fine copy in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. 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

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985-2013. First editions, 6 volumes, large 4to; original blue cloth in tan and blue pictorial dust jackets, spines lightly sunned, minor shelf wear, else a fine set, including the final volume of contrastive maps, index to entry labels, questionnaire, and fieldwork data..... More