Landmarks in linguistic thought: the western tradition from Socrates to Saussure
London: Routledge, 1989. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 199; original grey pictorial wrappers, near fine. Review copy from the publisher. More
Linguistics
Hartrampf's vocabularies: synonyms, antonyms, relatives...Perfected and simplified for home, profession, trade, pupil, teacher, scholar, savant
Atlanta: Hartrampf Company, 1934. Fourth British edition, "perfected work," 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 535, [1]; text printed in three columns, illustrations; original maroon cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, small spot of damage to upper cover, extremities a bit rubbed, joints starting to loosen; textblock fine. This edition..... More
L'Indo-Européen
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979. First edition; 12mo, pp. 127; original orange and white printed wrappers, edges a bit rubbed, corners creased, fore-edges soiled; pages uniformly toned. Still, a good copy from the series "Que Sais-je?" More
The Scandinavian languages: fifty years of linguistic research
The Hague & Paris: Mouton, 1972. First edition, 8vo, pp. 183; very good in original maroon wrappers. A report on linguistic research in Danish, Dano-Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, New-Norwegian, and Swedish in the fifty years following 1918. More
Altnordische philologie: Norwegen und Island
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, [2007]. First German edition, 8vo, pp. 653, [2]; fine in original orange and purple laminate boards. German translation of Handbok i norrøn filologi, by Astrid van Nahl (2004), translated from the Norwegian by the governmental organization "Norwegische Literatur im Ausland, Belletristik & Fachliteratur (NORLA)". The handbook..... More
M. Benj. Hederici lexicon manuale Graecum, omnibus sui generis lexicis, quae quidem exstant, longe locupletius, eaque ratione in tres partes, videlicet Hermeneuticam, Analyticam & Syntheticam divisum; ut prima Vocum Graecarum... altera Difficiliorum ex iisdem... tertia Vocum Phrasiumque Latinarum... Recensitum & plurimum auctum a Sam. Patrick.
Londini: Impensis J. & J. Knapton [et al.], 1727. First published in Leipsig 1722, this is apparently the first edition printed in England, the first quarto edition, and the first edition to come under outside editorship, 4to, [8] & unpaginated lexicon in triple column, title page printed in red and..... More
M. Benj. Hederici lexicon manuale Graecum, omnibus sui generis lexicis, quae quidem exstant, longe locupletius, eaque ratione in tres partes, videlicet Hermeneuticam, Analyticam & Syntheticam divisum; ut prima Vocum Graecarum… altera difficiliorum ex iisdem… tertia vocum phrasiumque Latinarum… Recensitum & plurimum auctum a Sam. Patrick.
Londini: Impensis J. & J. Knapton [et al.], 1727. First published in Leipsig 1722, this is apparently the first edition printed in England, the first quarto edition, and the first edition to come under outside editorship, 4to, [6] & unpaginated lexicon in triple column, leaf of adverts at the back;..... More
The sequence of tenses in Plautus
Philadelphia: 1917. 8vo, pp. [4], 52; original gray printed paper wrappers, corners curled, mild dampstaining, especially at the back; spine edges worn, good or better. With "Sincere regards, E.H.H." at the top of the title page. Doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania. More
Der Óláfs Þáttr Geirstadaálfs. Eine Variantenstudie
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1989. First edition, 8vo, pp. 202; fine in original printed yellow wrappers. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title. More
Runica, Germanica, Mediaevalia. Herausgegeben von Wilhelm Heizmann und Astrid van Nahl.
Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. First edition, thick 8vo, pp.xv, [1], 1024; fine copy in oriiginal orange cloth. Contributions in German, English, French, Norwegian, and Swedish. With a 2-p. autograph letter to one of the contributors signed by the dedicatee, Klaus Düwel, laid in. More
Scottish proverbs … New edition with explanatory notes and a glossary by James Donald.
Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, 1881. Sm. 8vo, pp. [10], 204; orig. blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; some rubbing; good and sound. More
Word histories: a glossary of unusual word origins
New York: Dorset House, 1941. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 211; original cloth in buff price-clipped printed dust jacket; jacket damp stained, spine browned with loss to head affecting "Word" of spine title; general edge wear, interior mostly fine. More
Type-token mathematics. A textbook of mathematical linguistics
'S-Gravenhage: Moulton & Co., 1960. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [2], 448; tables and graphs throughout; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
A dictionary of Slavic word families
New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. Large, thick 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 667; tables, text printed from typescript; original cloth (dampstained) in pink and white dust jacket printed in red and black; loss to spine foot of jacket and cloth, jacket a bit toned, minor shelf wear; interior fine. "200..... More
Essais sur l'histoire de la Révolution françoise, par une société d'auteurs latins ... Edition, revuë sur les originaux
Rome; Paris: propè Caesaris hortos. Horat. Satyr. 8. Lib. I; près du Jardin des Tuileries, [1799]. 8vo, pp. 103, [1]; 19th-century half mottled calf over marbled boards; red morocco spine label; ownership inscription on title page effaced; joints worn; covers rubbed; otherwise very good. Passages of Tacitus, Vergil, and other..... More
Awareness in the inductive solution of problems using words as stimuli: a dissertation in psychology presented to the faculty of the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: [Archives of Psychology], 1939. Slim 8vo, pp. 87; tables in text; original grey printed wrappers (a bit soiled), edges browned, general shelf wear; interior unopened, near fine. Reprint from the Archives of Psychology, No. 234. At head of upper cover: University of Pennsylvania. OCLC locates one copy of this..... More
Axiomatic semantics: a theory of linguistic semantics
Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1979. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 313; text diagrams; original cloth in white dust jacket printed in black and red; damage to top 1 1/2 inches of spine affecting both jacket and cloth, light edge wear, the rest very good. Second half of this study..... More
A dialogue of the effectual proverbs in the English tongue concerning marriage. Edited by John S. Farmer.
London: Gibbings & Co., 1906. 12mo, pp. xiv, [2], 215, [1], [30] ads; frontispiece and facsimile title-p. after the original edition of1562; fine copy in orig. black buckram, gilt-lettered spine. Historical introduction by Farmer. More
The concept of meaning
New York: Humanities Press, 1971. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 328; original cloth (a bit dampstained) in blue printed price-clipped dust jacket; jacket a bit shelf worn, interior fine. More
Prolegomena to a theory of language. Translated by Francis J. Whitfield
Madison [et al.]: University of Wisconsin Prtess, 1969. Revised English edition, 8vo, pp. v, [3], 144; fine copy in the dust jacket. More
Language, mathematics, and linguistics
The Hague: Moulton & Co., 1967. 8vo, pp. 243, [1]; original blue printed wrappers; previous owner's name at top of front cover, else near fine. More
Errors in the use of English
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883. American revised edition, large 12mo, pp. vi, 246, [12]; contemporary green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, peach floral endpapers; small tear to spine cloth, light rubbing to extremities, else very good. Copyright date 1882. Publisher's advertisements bound in rear. More
The science of language, a lecture: Sanskrit and Hebrew, the two written, primitive, languages, compared
Newport, R.I. Frederick A. Pratt, 1868. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [5]-23; some soiling but about fine in orig. printed yellow wrappers. Hodgson was an Honorary Member of the Asiatic Societies of London and Paris. He also wrote a grammar of the Berber language, different accounts of his travels in..... More
Ostseefinnisch und Germanisch: frühe Lehnbeziehungen im nördlichen Ostseeraum im Lichte der Forschung seit 1961
Groningen: Drukkerij van Denderen, 1985. First edition, 8vo, pp. 478; errata and stellingen laid in, fine in original tan printed wrappers. Presentation copy from the author dated April, 1986. More
Essential world English: being a preliminary mnemotechnic programme for proficiency in English self-expression for international use, based on semantic principles
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. 8vo, pp. 442, [1]; text illustrations; original cloth in red and white price-clipped dust jacket (some soiling) printed in red and black; faint foxing, shallow chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text; interior fine. More
