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Language & Dictionaries

Rare and first edition dictionaries and encyclopedias in various languages such as Biblical Aramaic, Arabic, German, and English.

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Autograph Letter, signed, to the son of Noah Webster, concerning his support of the Federal purchase of his father's synopsis of the Dictionary for the Library of Congress. John Quincy Adams.

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

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Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais. Alexander Graham Bell, E. C. Clifton, , Adrien Grimaux.

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

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One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the best Artists and containing an Account of the Various Methods. Book of Secrets.

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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

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Burgess Unabridged. A New Dictionary of Words you have always needed. Gelett Burgess.

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

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Des Mots à la mode, et des nouvelles façons de parler, avec des observations sur diverses manières d'agir & de s'exprimer; et un discours en vers sur les mêmes matières. François de Callières.

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

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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.

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

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Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia, as found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou, the Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Persia; and in the Songs of the People inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea. Orally collected and translated, with philological and Historical Notes. Alexander Edmund Chodzko.

Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia, as found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou, the Bandit-Minstrel of Northern...

London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; and sold by W.H. Allen and Co. [Harrison and Co., Printers], 1842. First edition. With leaf tipped in before half-title, inscribed and signed: " “To Sir George Thomas Staunton Brt. & & & with the compliments of/ his... Read More

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