Walpole, NH: Cheever Felch, 1810. Tenth Edition. Read More about A Grammatical System of the English Language: Comprehending a Plain and Familiar Scheme of...

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 about Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen … Eine von het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap...

St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1802. First and only edition of the first primer of the Tatar language in the Russian empire. The first primer of the Tatar language, compiled by a native Siberian Tatar under the direction of Iosif Ivanovich Giganov 1764-1800?), a priest and teacher at the..... Read More about Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskago pis'ma. [Primer of Tatar and Arabic

London: C. and J. Rivington, et al, 1824. Seventh edition. An attractive copy of Baretti's classic English-Italian dictionary. Read More about A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages

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 about A Grammar of the Italian Language with a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences, to which is added an...

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1955]. Thirteenth and Centennial Edition. Completely Revised. Read More about Familiar Quotations. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traced to their sources in...

London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, (c.1890). Read More about Beeton's Science, Art, and Literature. A Dictionary of Universal Information Comprising a...

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 about Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais

Leipzig: F. C. W. Vogel, 1884. First Edition. Read More about Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen. Mit einer kritischen Erörterung der aramäischen Wörter im...

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 about One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the...

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 about Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward S.[herman] Gould

New York: D. Burgess & Co.; Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.; [etc.], 1856. First edition. Read More about Five hundred mistakes of daily occurrence in speaking, pronouncing, and writing the English...