Rare and first edition dictionaries and encyclopedias in various languages such as Biblical Aramaic, Arabic, German, and English.
New York: B. Frodsham, 548 Broadway, 1861. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to Dr. E. Parmly from the... Read More about The Prince's Visit: A Humorous Description of the Tour of His Royal Highness, the Prince of...
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La Haye: Chez Les Libraires Associés, 1770. Nouvelle edition. Read More about Synonymes François,leurs Différentes Significations et le choix qu'il faut faire pour parles...
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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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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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Boston: Printed for West & Greenleaf … by Manning & Loring, Sept. 1803. First edition. Inscribed by Isaiah Thomas. Inscribed by the publisher, historian of American printing, and co-founder of the American Antiquarian Society, Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) on title-page of final volume: “Presented by I. Thomas, Esq.to E.J. Knox, May 21st..... Read More about The Minor Encyclopedia, being a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature. In four volumes
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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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[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 because..... 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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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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Paris: chez Étienne Ledoux, 1822. Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée, et ou l'on à Fondu le Supplément de le Clerc. Read More about Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique
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Paris: Prault fils, 1749. Chapter 12, Vol XII is Description de la Californie pp. 231-239. Also Vol. II. Chap. VIII. "Langues differentes des Hurons, des Abnakis, des Algonkins, des Illinois, des Outaouaks, et des autres nations de Nouvelle France" & Chap. XII. "Des Sauvages Natches: leur Religion, Cérémonies, Loix, etc."..... Read More about Recueil d’Observations Curieuses, sur les Mœurs les coutumes, les usages, les differentes...
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Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1919-1928. First Edition. The Society for Pure English was founded by the Editors of the O.E.D. W.A. Craigie, Henry Bradley, Robert Bridges, Sir Walter Raleigh., L. Pearsall Smith and comrades for the purpose of "guiding educational authorities, and introducing into practice certain slight modifications and..... Read More about S.P.E. (Society for Pure English) Tracts I-XL
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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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Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1953]. Ninth Edition. Read More about A Greek-English Lexicon. A New Edition, Revised and Augmented throughout by Henry Stuart Jones,...
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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 fasinating 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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Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829. First edition. Read More about Epeögraphy; or Notations of Orthoëpy: to which is prefixed, Lektography, in Improvement in...
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1877. First edition. Includes a Hidatsa-Engish dictionary pp. 125-239. Read More about Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians [Department of the Interior, United States...
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