“The only slang phrase I ever invented …”
Typed Letter, signed ("Jim"), to Liz Riley of...
New York, Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street: 1960. “The only slang phrase I ever invented …”. A.... Read More
Price: $2,500
Language & Dictionaries
Rare and first edition dictionaries and encyclopedias in various languages such as Biblical Aramaic, Arabic, German, and English.
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John Quincy Adams Supports U.S. Purchase of Noah Webster's Synopsis
Autograph Letter, signed, to the son of Noah Webster, concerning his support of the Federal purchase of his father's synopsis...
Quincy [MA]: 11 September 1843. John Quincy Adams Supports U.S. Purchase of Noah Webster's Synopsis. In this letter to Noah Webster's son William G. Webster, the former President endorses the suggestion of “purchasing the synopsis of [your father's] great work and causing it to be deposited in [the Library of... Read More
Price: $6,500
Webster's Dictionaries. From the Marietta (Ohio) Intelligencer, April 1-8, 1856.
Springfield, Mass: Geo. and Chas., Merriam, 1856. Read More
Price: $250
Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen gekrönte Preisschrift...
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
Price: $200
Assyrisches Handwörterbuch.
Leipzig: Hinrich'sche Buchhandlung, 1896. First Edition. Read More
Price: $175
The Italian Library. Containing an Account of the Lives and Works of the Most Valuable Authors of Italy. With a....
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1757. First edition. The first paragraph of the preface was written by Baretti's friend Dr. Johnson. The work comprises an outline of the development of the Italian language and an annotated bibliography of works in Italian. Read More
Price: $400
A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages.
London: C. and J. Rivington, et al, 1824. Seventh edition. An attractive copy of Baretti's classic English-Italian dictionary. Read More
Price: $250
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES... Improved And Augmented With Above TEN THOUSAND WORDS omitted In The Last...
London: Printed for W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; W. Johnston et al, 1771. A New Edition. First edition is 1760. Read More
Price: $1,250
A Grammar of the Italian Language with a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences, to which is added an English Grammar...
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
Price: $250
Familiar Quotations. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1955]. Thirteenth and Centennial Edition. Completely Revised. Read More
Price: $150
Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramaïschen.
Halle/Saale: Max Niemeyer, 1927. First Edition. Read More
Price: $150
Beeton'd Science, Art, and Literature. A Dictionary of Universal Information.
London: ward, Lock & Tyler, (c.1890). Read More
Price: $350
George Kennan to Alexander Graham Bell
Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais.
Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. George Kennan to Alexander Graham Bell. 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... Read More
Price: $750
Vraie Méthode pour Apprendre Facilement a parler, a Lire et a Écrire l'Anglois, ou Grammaire Générale de la Langue Angloise...
Lyon: Chez Bernuset, 1780. Read More
Price: $150
Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen. Mit einer kritischen Erörterung der aramäischen Wörter im Neuen Testament...
Leipzig: F. C. W. Vogel, 1884. First Edition. Read More
Price: $275
Dictionnaire de la Bible. Contenant tous le noms de personnes, de lieux, de plantes, d’animaux, mentionnés dans les saintes écritures...
Paris: 1895-1912. First edition. Read More
Price: $500
First American edition
One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the best Artists and containing...
Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the... Read More
Price: $1,500
Dictionnaire Universal d'Histoie et de Géographie...Ouvrage Revu et Continué par A. Cahssing.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1872. Nouvelle édition (Vingt-Troisième). Read More
Price: $150
![Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward S.[herman] Gould. William Cullen Bryant.](/pictures/thumb/306305.jpg?v=1534807687)
Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward S.[herman] Gould.
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
Price: $650
A Wonderful Gelett Burgess Presentation, with Drawing & Letter
Burgess Unabridged. A New Dictionary of Words you have always needed.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1941]. Later edition (first published in 1941). A Wonderful Gelett Burgess Presentation, with Drawing & Letter. 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... Read More
Price: $600
Five hundred mistakes of daily occurrence in speaking, pronouncing, and writing the English language, Corrected.
New York: D. Burgess & Co.; Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.; [etc.], 1856. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
New, Fashionable Words
Des Mots à la mode, et des nouvelles façons de parler, avec des observations sur diverses manières d'agir & de...
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1692. Seconde edition, augmentée …. New, Fashionable Words. Second edtion (same year as the first). enlarged by the addition of several more new words and a “Lettre sur les Mots à la mode”. Calliières was a member of the Academie Française, a diplomat, and the author of..... Read More
Price: $350
Vocabulary in French and English. A Facsimile of Caxton's Edition c. 1480. With Introduction by J.C.T. Oates, Under-Librarian and L.C....
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1964. Facsimile Edition. One of the rarest Caxtons (one of 4 known copies), the copy herein reproduced had been bought by H.P.Kraus in 1960 and traded to Cambridge for another Caxton. Read More
Price: $250
Lexicon rationale sive Thesaurus Philosophicus Ordine Alphabetico digestus, in quo Vocabula omnia Philosophica, variasque illorum acceptiones, juxta cùm Veterum, tùm...
Amsterdam: Petrus vander Slaart, 1692. First Edition. Read More
Price: $1,350
![Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pin in Farshyh [National Language (i.e., Mandarin) Romanization System]. Gwoin-tzyhmuu dih ell shyh. Gwoyeu Toongi Chourbey Huey jyh. Jonghwa Min Gwo shyrwuu nian shyri yueh. Chinese Romanization.](/pictures/thumb/39526.jpg?v=1534804339)
Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pinin Farshyh
Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pin in Farshyh [National Language (i.e., Mandarin) Romanization System]. Gwoin-tzyhmuu dih ell shyh. Gwoyeu Toongi Chourbey Huey jyh...
[N.p: 15th year, 11th Month of the Chinese Republic, (i.e., 1927)]. Gwoyeu Romatzyh Pinin Farshyh. The introduction mentions T. E. Wade and his system of representing Chinese characters, as well as the Postal (Telegraph) coding system, which employed supplemental characters to represent the different tones. The pamphlet is an explanation..... Read More
Price: $750