Item 353679Nuovo Dizonario Italiano-Francese.
Price: $250
Genova: Presso Ivone Gravier, Stampatore-Librajo, 1811. Read More Item Details for Nuovo Dizonario Italiano-Francese Add to Wish List
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Rare and first edition dictionaries and encyclopedias in various languages such as Biblical Aramaic, Arabic, German, and English.
Item 52630Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen gekrönte Preisschrift.
Price: $200
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1886. First Edition. On Aramaic loan words and phrases in classical Arabic. With the ownership signature of linguist and scholar of Jewish history, Max L. Margolis. Read More Item Details for Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen gekrönte Preisschrift Add to Wish List
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Item 54481Assyrisches Handwörterbuch.
Price: $175
Leipzig: Hinrich'sche Buchhandlung, 1896. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Assyrisches Handwörterbuch Add to Wish List
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Item 332990EpÍtome Ò Modo Facil de aprender el Idioma Nahuatl, EpÍtome Ò Modo Facil de aprendee el Idioma Nahuatl.
Price: $300
Mexico: Tip. de la V. de Murguia e hijos, 1869. First Edition. Read More Item Details for EpÍtome Ò Modo Facil de aprender el Idioma Nahuatl, EpÍtome Ò Modo Facil de aprendee el Idioma Nahuatl Add to Wish List
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Item 353984Atlas Ethnographique du Globe, ou Classification des Peuples Anciens et Modernes d'apres leur langues.
Price: $500
Paris: Cjez Rey et Gravier, Libraires, quia des Augustins, No. 55 Imprimé Chez Paul Renouard, 1826. Read More Item Details for Atlas Ethnographique du Globe, ou Classification des Peuples Anciens et Modernes d'apres leur langues Add to Wish List
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Item 307527A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages.
Price: $300
London: C. and J. Rivington, et al, 1824. Seventh edition. An attractive copy of Baretti's classic English-Italian dictionary. Read More Item Details for A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages Add to Wish List
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Item 250101A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES... Improved And Augmented With Above TEN THOUSAND WORDS omitted In The Last...
Price: $1,250
London: Printed for W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; W. Johnston et al, 1771. A New Edition. First edition is 1760. Read More Item Details for A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES... Improved And Augmented With Above TEN THOUSAND WORDS omitted In The Last EDITION Of Altieri. To Which Is Added, An Italian And English Grammar Add to Wish List
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Item 307534A Grammar of the Italian Language with a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences, to which is added an English Grammar...
Price: $250
London: printed for J. Nourse; W. Strahan; J.F. and C. Rivington; et al, 1778. The present work by Baretti, the famed Italian educator living in London and friend of Johnson, was first published in 1762. It offers quadrilingual versions (English, Spanish, French and Italian) of a variety of pieces excerpted..... Read More Item Details for A Grammar of the Italian Language with a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences, to which is added an English Grammar for the use of the Italians Add to Wish List
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The Wellspring of Literary Allusion and Cliché
Item 376264A Collection of Familiar Quotations, with Complete Indices of Authors and Subjects.
Price: $950
Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1855. First edition. Attractive copy of the first edition of this cornerstone of shared cultural references, which went through nine editions in the compiler’s lifetime. Read More Item Details for A Collection of Familiar Quotations, with Complete Indices of Authors and Subjects Add to Wish List
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Item 227540Familiar Quotations.
Price: $150
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1927. Read More Item Details for Familiar Quotations Add to Wish List
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Item 243248Familiar Quotations. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
Price: $150
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1955]. Thirteenth and Centennial Edition. Completely Revised. Read More Item Details for Familiar Quotations. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Add to Wish List
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Item 58399Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramaïschen.
Price: $150
Halle/Saale: Max Niemeyer, 1927. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramaïschen Add to Wish List
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Item 42374Beeton's Science, Art, and Literature. A Dictionary of Universal Information Comprising a Complete Summary of the Moral, Mathematical, Physical, and...
Price: $350
London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, (c.1890). Read More Item Details for Beeton's Science, Art, and Literature. A Dictionary of Universal Information Comprising a Complete Summary of the Moral, Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences; a Plain Description of the Arts; an Interesting Synopsis of Literary Knowledge; with the Pronunciation and Etymology.. Add to Wish List
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Profusely Illustrated
Item 10858Beeton’s Dictionary of Universal Information. Georaphy, Biography, and History. [and] Beeton’s… Science, Art, and Literature.
Price: $400
London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d. [ca. 1880]. New Editions, enlarged. Fine set of this wonderfully illustrated encycopedia. Read More Item Details for Beeton’s Dictionary of Universal Information. Georaphy, Biography, and History. [and] Beeton’s… Science, Art, and Literature Add to Wish List
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George Kennan to Alexander Graham Bell
Item 18606Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais.
Price: $750
Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. A fascinating association copy, inscribed on the flyleaf of each volume: "Alexander Graham Bell / from George Kennan / August 9, 1919." Kennan's early employment with the Western Union Telegraph Company, laying cable from Alaska through Siberia all the way to St. Petersburg, adds..... Read More Item Details for Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais Add to Wish List
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Item 56021Vraie Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement a parler, a Lire et a Écrire l'Anglois, ou Grammaire Générale de la Langue Angloise...
Price: $150
Lyon: Chez Bernuset, 1780. Read More Item Details for Vraie Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement a parler, a Lire et a Écrire l'Anglois, ou Grammaire Générale de la Langue Angloise Add to Wish List
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Item 371891Biblia Hebraica ... Novum Testamentum Graecum ... [Old Testament in Hebrew with interlinear notes in Latin, bound with the New...
Price: $4,500
[Geneva]: Pierre de la Rouière, 1609. Edited with introduction by Benito Arias Montanus (1527–1598) Spanish orientalist and editor of the Antwerp Polyglot, a reprint of Plantin's similar edition. Read More Item Details for Biblia Hebraica ... Novum Testamentum Graecum ... [Old Testament in Hebrew with interlinear notes in Latin, bound with the New Testament in Greek, with interlinear notes in Latin] Add to Wish List
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First Edition of the Bible in Hebrew and Spanish
Item 371476Torah Neviʾim u-Khetuvim bi-shene ʻamudim [in Hebrew type] ... Biblia. En dos colunas Hebrayco y Español.
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Amsterdam: Joseph, Jacob and Abraham, the sons of Solomon Proops, 5522 [1762]. Besides being the first bi-lingual edition in Hebrew and Spanish, this edition is the first Hebrew book whose publication was financed by an American – Abraham Mendes de Castro (1689-1762) of Curaçao – intended for use in the..... Read More Item Details for Torah Neviʾim u-Khetuvim bi-shene ʻamudim [in Hebrew type] ... Biblia. En dos colunas Hebrayco y Español Add to Wish List
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Item 347800Salomonib Okãlagalãningit Profeteniglo. The Proverbs of Solomon, and the Prophecies of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets: Translated...
Price: $2,850
London: Printed for the Use of the Mission in Labrador by the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1849. First edition. 12mo. [5], 2-675 [1] pp. Text (aside from title page and publication information) in the Eskimo (Inuktitut) language. Full calf by "Watkins Binder" with their tiny ticket on the rear..... Read More Item Details for Salomonib Okãlagalãningit Profeteniglo. The Proverbs of Solomon, and the Prophecies of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets: Translated into The Esquimaux Language by The Missionaries of the Unitas Fratum, or United Brethren Add to Wish List
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First Polyglot Psalter, Second Book with Arabic Type, & the Earliest Substantial Biographical Note on Columbus
Item 371021Psalterium Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, & Chaldaeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis ….
Price: $40,000
Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516. The Genoa Psalter, also known as the Octaplum or Quadruplex Psalter, was the first polyglot psalter to be published (and the first polyglot edition of any part of the Bible). Financed by the Oriental language scholar Bishop Agostino Giustiniani and printed in Genoa in 1516..... Read More Item Details for Psalterium Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, & Chaldaeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis … Add to Wish List
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Item 57478Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen. Mit einer kritischen Erörterung der aramäischen Wörter im Neuen Testament.
Price: $275
Leipzig: F. C. W. Vogel, 1884. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen. Mit einer kritischen Erörterung der aramäischen Wörter im Neuen Testament Add to Wish List
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Item 39127Dictionnaire Universal d'Histoie et de Géographie...Ouvrage Revu et Continué par A. Cahssing.
Price: $150
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1872. Nouvelle édition (Vingt-Troisième). Read More Item Details for Dictionnaire Universal d'Histoie et de Géographie...Ouvrage Revu et Continué par A. Cahssing Add to Wish List
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Item 368870Dictionnaire de L'Argot des Typographes précédé d'une Monographie du Compositeur d'Imprimerie et suivi d'un choix de coquilles typographiques curieuses ou...
Price: $250
Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1883. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Dictionnaire de L'Argot des Typographes précédé d'une Monographie du Compositeur d'Imprimerie et suivi d'un choix de coquilles typographiques curieuses ou célèbres Add to Wish List
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Item 306305Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward S.[herman] Gould.
Price: $650
in recipient's hand dated March 30/60. Bryant writes to Gould about an article recommending Worcester's Dictionary in the Evening Post, which several people would like to see answered. In part: "As you are my Ajax of philology I send it to you, that if you think it worthwhile you can..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward S.[herman] Gould Add to Wish List
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A Wonderful Gelett Burgess Presentation, with Drawing & Letter
Item 40835Burgess Unabridged. A New Dictionary of Words you have always needed.
Price: $600
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1941]. Later edition (first published in 1941). Inscribed on the front pastedown to New York columnist Leonard Lyons: "Motherwords / to / Leonard Lyons / my pet columnist / and specialist in Paradox and Antithesis. / Gelett Burgess." Burgess has also penned a four-line poem..... Read More Item Details for Burgess Unabridged. A New Dictionary of Words you have always needed Add to Wish List
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