Lyons: L'Imprimerie de Leroy, Ans VII. [i.e. 1799]. 2 vols., 12mo, pp. xvi, 462; 432, with half-titles, the "Table Alphabetique des Synonymes," Olivet's "Prosodie Francoise," and his "Essais de Grammaire," and "Remarques sur Racine" at the end of vol. II; contemporary full French mottled calf, smooth gilt spines, red and..... More

[Montreal: 1923.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 32; original brown printed wrappers; very good. Robert Goltman was Principal at Goltman’s Business College, Montreal, as well as the official stenographer and formerly Instructor in shorthand and typewriting, McGill University. As Goltman appears to have been stationed for many years in Montreal, Quebec..... More

New York: John Wiley, 1865. 8vo, pp. x, 398, [2]; folding table; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine; spine sunned, to margins of last 2 leaves erose; all else very good. First published in 1861. Green was a professor at the Theological Society at Princeton. More

Gardiner, [Maine]: printed for the author by A.M.C. Heath, 1856. Square 8vo, pp. 24; bound with, as issued: Criticisms in etymology and syntax: or, a supplemental English grammar..., Gardiner: printed for the author by Morrell & Heath, 1856, pp. 48 (cancel slip pasted at the bottom of the verso of..... More

Gottingen: Dieterichschen, 1865. First edition, 8vo, viii & 219pp., publisher's quarter black morocco over marbled boards, pages browning; else fine. Comprehensive index to all four volumes of Grimm's groundbreaking Deutsch Grammatik. From the library of George Stephens. More

Bloomington, Indiana University Linguistics Club, n.d., [ca. 1977]. First edition, 4to, pp. 25; printed from typescript. Fine in original blue stapled wrappers. "To be published in a Festschrift for Oswald Szemerenyi, Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science: current issues in linguistic theory (John Benjamins B.V., Amsterdam)."..... More

Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1970. 8vo, pp. 392; original yellow printed cloth (light soiling), spine faded, else fine; interior fine. More

London: Christian Literature Society for India, 1901. Slim 8vo, pp. viii, 166; publisher's brown cloth (some soiling), gilt-lettered spine; top 2 inches of spine starting to detach, ends frayed, edges show some shelf wear; endpapers browned, slightly later (1916) ownership signature on ffep, else interior very good. More

London & New York: Routledge, [1995]. First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. x, 186; fine copy in the dust jacket. More

Madras: South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society, 1961. First edition, 12mo, pp. [2], vi, [2], 256; spine faded, evidence of sticker removal on spine; all else very good in original red cloth. The author was head of the Department of Tamil, Thyagarajar College in Madurai. More

V.p. 1863-89. 8vo, all in wrappers or self-wrappers, all but one with a presentation inscription from Jessen to the runic archaeologist George Stephens (1813-1895). Includes three titles on the rune stones, one on orthography and several others on grammar and language. Jessen (1833-1921) was "a Danish linguist, the grandson of..... More

London: J.F. and C. Rivington [et al.], 1785. Second quarto edition (the first quarto was published in Dublin, 1775), 2 volumes, Vol. I: [a2]-b4 c-h2 i-k4 g-h4 B-4F4 4N-6X4 (with 5X2 missigned 5Z2), Vol. II: [A]1 B-3Y4 3Z2 A-3Y4 3Z2; engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson after Reynolds, text in triple..... More

London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Browne, 1827. Second edition of the first and most important revision of Johnson, 3 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait of Johnson after Reynolds, full contemporary sheep, rebacked in calf; gilt lettered direct on spine; spines quite faded, else very good and sound, with the half-titles..... More