Berline: Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1858. First Edition. Softcover. Original wraps, largely unopened. Interesting early study of New Mexican pueblo languages with glossaries in English with vocabulary in Tesuque and Zuni and discussions on Santo Domingo and other pueblo languages. Other sections on Haida, Nootka, Ahtna, Comanche, Pima. Size: Quarto..... More
Madrid: D.M.R. y Fonseca, 1851. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original gray cloth, front hinge just starting, but sound overall. Light scattered foxing, otherwise unmarked internally. The second edition of a scarce dictionary and history of Gypsy culture and language. The bulk of the book is the dictionary translating Roma..... More
Merlin, 1768. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Two volumes, five parts, bound as one in contemporary speckled calf, spine a little dry, front hinge cracked but sound. Light scattered foxing. The first two volumes, published in 1768, of what would become a six volume set by 1773. Attractively printed with..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Faux leather spine over red cloth - faint shelfwear, fine internally. Photo facsimile of Caxton's edition. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 047685. More
London: R. Baldwin et al, 1806. 12th ed. Hardcover (Full Leather). Period sheep worn and defective, joints week, spine split and dry, loss of leather at edges; old signature to title, light browning internally, a few creased pages, generally very good inside. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate inside front..... More
Amsterdam: Ludovicum Elzevirium (Elzevir, Elsevier), 1649. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Attractively rebound in full brown calf, added endpapers, small 12mo. Old note to front blank. Clean internally; a study of words of Eastern origin in the New Testament. 173pp. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under..... More
Madrid: Ediciones Atlas, 1978. Softcover. 3 volumes in printed wraps, spines browned, very light wear - facsimile of the 1893 edition. An important academic and linguist, Cipriano Muñoz also wrote Bibliografía Española de Lenguas Indigenas de América. Size: Quarto (4to). 3-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
Philadelphia: James Kay, 1835. Third Edition. Hardcover. Original half leather, spine with an old repair in cloth tape, joints weak, scattered minor foxing. Very good internally; 285pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 046016. More
Madrid: Rev. de Archivos, 1924. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full tree calf, endpapers dampstained and inner hinge slightly cracked, bumping and wear to bottom right corner of last 50 pages in the margin - clean otherwise and still an attractive copy overall. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under..... More
Madrid: Rev. de Archivos, 1924. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Calf backed cloth boards, light wear to spine, slight age toning to pages. An attractive copy. Bookplate of Colonel Victor De Guinzbourg, from his proverb library. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory..... More
London: W.H. for Abel Roper, 1650. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, some surface scrapes, front hinge rubbed and cracking but largely held by cords, rear rubbed but sound. Front endpaper torn and abraded (apparently from removing wax seals used as ownership markings). A later edition of Cotgrave's..... More
Chetuman, Q. Roo: Pedro P. Ozul, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). One of 500 copies. Rebound in full red calf; slight rubbing to covers, faint browning internally, but otherwise a fine copy by the Mayan scholar and linguist. He was born in Tinum, Yucutan in 1885 and died in..... More
Baltimore: F. Lucas, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Fullacid calf, spine chipped, front hinge cracked but holding by two cords. In two parts - Traductor paginated xix, 123 - then El LEctor Español is paginated 21-226. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Scattered foxing, but text mostly..... More
London: T. Cadell, 1817. Third Edition. Hardcover. Original plain boards, spine worn,hinges a little weak, corners bumped, bookplates to endpapers, one endpaper with glue stain; very good internally. 178pp. Duplessis 855. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 046003. More
New York: Jonathan David, 1963. Softcover. in blue card covers, slight browning. A Hebrew alphabet in miniature. 1 1/2" x 1" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 048044. More
Madrid: Norberto Loorenci, 1845. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Modest wear and darkening to vellum, notes to endpapers, scattered foxing and minor stain. 140pp Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 045589. More
London: The Percy Society, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original brown cloth, bookplate of De Guinzbourg, from his proverb library on the front pastedown. Modest foxing; a very nice copy. The first of Denham's tracts published between 1846 and 1859. Scarce. iv, 73pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1..... More
London: H. Meere, 1709. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Later armorial leather, both boards detached - with the bookplate and arms of William Stirling. Minor foxing and browning, otherwise very clean internally. xxxvii, (3), 312, (36), (8), 14pp. Duplessis 846 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
Leipzig: Weygand, 1792. Early Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary paper covered boards, paper torn on spine, hinges a little weak, but binding generally sound. Modest general foxing. (22),692, (14)pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No..... More
Argentorati (Strasbourg): Theodofius Rihelius, 1592. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary stamped pigskin treated at some point to prevent deterioration, remains of clasps, new endpapers added, binding tightened. Light scattered foxing and browning, a few minor ink stains, one entry in the first work (Poetice) marked out in ink..... More
Paris: Carolum Stephanum (Charles Estienne), 1556. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Period full calf, worn, hinges cracked, spine degraded, corners worn. Boards sewn back on some time ago to strengthen the weakening cords and are holding but loose; long, wide scrape on rear cover. Scattered foxing and toning, old stamp..... More
Copenhagen: C.G. Iversens Forlag, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Quarter leather, front cover cleanly detached, 2 old bookplates to endpapers, one of William Stirling-Maxwell and one Colonel Victor De Guinzbourg (who purchased much of Stirling-maxwell's library). Scattered foxing, 58pp Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
Baltimore: W.B. Cram, 1831. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary leather, worn at edges, hinges rubbed, binding sound and attractive overall. Light browning to pages, some foxing and discoloration. 280pp Size: 16mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 046024..... More
Ohio: More, Clarke, 1854. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Stamped cloth, lacking front endpaper. A few portraits, scattered minor pencil marks. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 046034. More
Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. 2 volumes in original printed wrappers, volume 1 come away from the spine a bit, wraps age toned and a little worn, but otherwise unmarked and still about very good. In Lebanese and English. 748pp paginated continuously Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume..... More