Rare and first edition dictionaries and encyclopedias in various languages such as Biblical Aramaic, Arabic, German, and English.
Calcutta: Printed by Thomson, Ferris, and Greenway, 1798. Lacking the last leaf of music (supplied in photocopy facsimile... Read More about The Oriental Linguist, an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the Popular Language of Hindoostan ;...
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London: Printed for G. Kearsley et al, 1813. First edition. Read More about Pantologia. A New Cyclopædia
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Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1967. Photomechanical reprint of the 1965 edition. Read More about Ugaritic Textbook. Analecta Orientalia 38. I. Grammar. II. Texts in Transliteration, Cuneiform...
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Philadelphia: Blakiston's Sons & Co, 1916. Seventh edition. Read More about A Pocket Medical Dictionary
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London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1823. with 4 facsimile title-pages to earlier Slang dictionaries. Read More about Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Revised and Corrected with additions of...
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London: Printed for C. Chappel, Pall-Mall, 1811. First Edition thus (fourth overall). Francis Grose (1731-1791) was the lexicographer of the low life: his dictionary of vulgar and slang words, which appeared under several different titles, was the most complete of the eighteenth century, and appeared in numerous editions (including a...... Read More about Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence...
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Witeberg [i.e., Wittenberg]: Ex Officina Cratoniana, 1593. Italian as a Foreign Language, Wittenburg, 1593. Rare collection of sayings, anecdotes and jokes written and compiled from Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589) by Catharinus Dulcis, for young students of Italian. Dulcis was an itinerant scholar of languages, and evidently the first professor of French..... Read More about Horae Recreationis, sive Facetiarum et Apophtegematum Centuriae II. In usum inclyta Academia...
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Berlin: Druck von H. Itzkowski, 1896. Read More about Sepher Haschoraschim. Würzelwörterbuch der hebräischen Sprache von Abulwalîd Merwân Ibn...
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Halle a. S: M. Niemeyer, 1918-1922. First Edition. Read More about Historische Grammatik der hebräischen Sprache des Alten Testamentes. 1. Bd. Einleitung,...
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Tiguri [Zürich]: Typis Henrici Bodmeri, 1696. Third edition, enlarged and revised (preceded by editions of 1649 & 1659). Third edition. revised, of this polyglot thesaurus of scripture, following edtions of 1649 and 1659 . Hottinger (1620 – 1667) was a Swiss reformed theologian and philologist who taught at the Universities..... Read More about Thesaurus philologicus, seu, Clavis scripturae: qua quicquid fere orientalium Hebraeorum maxime,...
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Paris: Chez Gregoire Dupuis, 1713-14. Fourth edition. Read More about Odes de M. De La Motte…Avec un Discours sur la Poësie en général & sur l'Ode en particulier
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London: by H. Woodfall, 1741. First edition. Inscribed, Presentation Binding. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "J. Shaftesbury | Given me by James Harris 1751." James Harris (1709-1780) was the eldest son of James Harris by his second wife Lady Elizabeth Ashley Cooper, third daughter of the second Lord Shaftsbury (died 1699)..... Read More about Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar
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[Ottoman Empire: n.d., 19th century]. Handsome manscript theological and philosophical treatise in Turkish. Read More about Islamic Manuscript in Turkish
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[N.p., Japan: ca.1850s or 1860s]. Read More about Alphabet and Syllabary. Japanese, English, French
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. The original dedition was published in 1828 and revised in 1836. PRESENTATION COPY. With tipped in slip at front "From the Author/ A. B. Johnson esq./ of Utica/ N.Y."' Johnson was an Amewrican philosopher and banker. "Johnson asserted that language is “subordinate” to nature..... Read More about A Treatise on Language or the Relation which words bear to Things in four parts
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Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, 1923. First Trade edition. Read More about Doctor Johnson, A Play
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London: Rivington, 1825. Ninth edition, with corrections and additions. Read More about Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of...
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Rochester: Marshall & Dean, 1834. 36th edition. Read More about English Grammar in familiar Lectures, accompanied by a compendium; Embracing a New Systematic...
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New York: Touchstone Book Simon & Schuster, [1971]. Third Paperback printing. Inscribed to Ashley Montagu. Inscribed to Ashley Montragu on the front pastedownOct. 1992. Read More about The Underground Dictionary
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Chicago: American Publication Society of Hebrew, 1886. First edition. Read More about An Arabic Manual
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Ringos, N.J: C. W. Larison, Printer, 1883. First edition. Account of tours by Larison and students of his Academy of Science and Art to Pickle's Mountain and sites in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The tour of Central New Jersey includes notable descriptions of Monmouth Battlefield, Squan Beach, Barnegat Bay, Manasquan..... Read More about The Tenting School: A Description of the Tours taken, and of the Field Work done, by the Class of...
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Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Stationery & Printing Co, 1896. An excellent copy of this fragile indigenous-language dictionary. Above the vignette portrait cut of an Indian wearing a broad-brimmed hat, the cover title reads, "Alaska Indian Dictionary," and the sub-title on the main title page is, "Common words in the dialects..... Read More about Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary
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Madrid: Imprenta de D. Jose Redondo Calleja, 1844. First edition of this "Diccionario de la lengua Castellana" Read More about Un Trocito de Lengua Escabechada para la Academia española. Las patas de un pavus major para D....
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London: F.C. et J. Rivington, 1810. “Editio nova”. John Amory Lowell’s Copy. A fascinating provenance. John Amory Lowell (1798–1881), of the distinguished Boston family of that name, was a businessman and philanthropist who became the sole trustee of the Lowell Institute when his cousin John Lowell, Jr., died in 1836..... Read More about Graecum Lexicon Manuale
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Philadelphia: Finley, 1817. Second American edition. Read More about A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations, Which Are in Daily Use; taken from The Latin,...
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