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London: J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, W.J.E.J. Richardson et al.,, 1807. In two volumes, contemporary full calf, later expertly rebacked with gilt lettering. Very Good, small prior owner label, even browning, light scattered toning, boards rubbed, later corner repairs. A solid and well-bound set, . 4th Edition. Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, 1990. Distinguished Lecturer Series 1. Stapled wrappers with gilt lettering front wrapper. 16 pages(2). Near Fine, tiny spot faded front wrapper, book appears to be unread. A lecture given by Eco while he was a Fellow at the Indiana University Institute of Advanced Studies from July 10-24, 1989. No limitation given, but purportedly fewer than 300 copies printed, and one of Eco's scarcer A items. Contursi A029. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

London: William Tegg, 1860. liv, (2), 739, (1) pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Finely bound in contemporary full polished calf, the back intricately tooled in gilt with black morocco label gilt, end papers and page edges marbled, Near Fine, slight rubs to calf, shadow of engraving to title page. " With numerous additions from the copy prepared by the author for republication: to which is annexed his letter to John Dunning, esq. Rev. and cor., with additional notes, by Richard Taylor." A quite handsome copy of this rather uncommon edition of Tooke's great philological work. . Later Edition. Full Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. The First Trade Edition, there was also a limited edition of 100 copies. Very Good in the original salmon cloth with black decorations to boards; title in red on front and spine, Unwin monogram likewise on rear. Color frontispiece. Spine darkened and red title dulled, 3" tear top edge half-title page, light foxing to end pages, period interesting bookplate front pastedown. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library, Folklore Institute, Indiana University, the only library indicators being its stamp verso of frontispiece and blindstamp to title page. With RARE and important three page ALS tipped to front end page, sent from Leland at the Hotel Victoria, Florence, Italy, to Mr Sampson ( noted linguist John Sampson ), possiby dated 1899, with "99" after heading. "Dear Mr Sampson, I have written and sent you separately by this mail that which I contribute to our book." He then discusses his wishes for the Preface and Introduction… Leer más

Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz, 1952. Vols. I and II published 1952, Vol. III, 1955. Hauer's classic Manchurian-German dictionary, RARE in the First Edition. Three volumes in original printed wrappers, Very Good, small tears and wear ay spines. pages uniformly browning, chips at wrapper corners of Vol. III. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: E. Marlborough & Co., 1902. Marlborough's Self-Taught Series No. 15a. SCARCE First Edition in original red cloth covers. Very Good, cloth a bit darkened. From the collection of James W. Marchand, noted medieval scholar, linguist, and polyglot, his name stamp front end page. I. A Simplified Grammar. II. Exercises and Examination Papers. III. The Vernacular. IV> Key and Dictionary. 118, 8 pages of ads.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paris: Dider et Cie , 1873. Two volumes finely bound in contemporary maroon polished calf, the backs intricately gilt, marbled end papers and edges. Very Good Plus< evidence of bookplate removal front paste downs, spines a shade sunned, light soiling to boards, a few spots of toning at end papers. "E´tudes sur les origines, l'e´tymologie, la grammaire, les dialectes, la versification, et les lettres au moyen age. 1." . 6th Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Helsingfors: mprimerie de la Société de Littérature Finnoise, 1896. 224 pp., text in French. SCARCE in the First Edition. Near Fine, small loss of paper at head of spine, top corner crease rear wrapper. Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen (1842-1927) was a Danish linguist and Turkologist, considered one of the greatest linguists of all time. His successful translation of the Orkhon inscriptions opened the window into the Old Turkic alphabet. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Viking Society for Northern Research, Univ. Of London, 1937. RARE. Reprinted from Saga-Book, Vol. XII. Fine in stapled wrappers, small inked notations top edge front cover. 18 pp. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. , 1889. Very Good, light soiling to cloth, several pages yet uncut. lxxviii, 90 pages : facsimile. Uncommon in either the 1st or 2nd eds. . Second Edition Revised and Enlarged . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Saint Michaels, AZ: St. Michaels Press, 1950. 372 pages. Book in English and Navajo with two beautiful fold-out color reproductions of sandpaintings. SCARCE, especially so in such lovely condition. Near Fine, small date in ink front endpage, spine a bit bowed. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

New York: Rand McNally & Co. , 1949. RARE lithograph wall chart for the device called the "Structural Differential" which Alfred Korzybski patented in 1925 as a means to aid in visualizing the process he called "abstracting". This was to be used as a training device in general semantics, a field of study Korzybski is credited with founding. The chart is Near Fine, rubbed lower right, mounted on two stained wooden dowels with ribbon hanger 18" wide by 38" high. Korzybski's work in semantics heavily influenced science fiction authors such as A.E. Van Vogt, Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, and H. Beam Piper, as well as L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph W. Campbell. His most famous quote "The map is not the territory" comes from this longer quote "A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness."( Science and Sanity, Korzybski, 1931). OCLC locates no copies; no… Leer más

Wiesbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH, 1962. Near Fine, slight wear to wrappers at spines. the wrappers coming away from the spines of both volumes. The prior owner signature and business card laid in of Ruth I Meserve, longtime secretary of The Mongolian Society in Bloomington, Indiana. Most pages uncut, 2 pages noted with tidy scholarly underlining and annotations. Text in German. The Secret History of the Mongols. Part I: Text, Part II: Dictionary. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bloomington, Indiana: The Mongolian Society, Inc. , 1978. RARE. Part One published 1978, Parts Two and Three, 1984. Fine, two words with highlights noted in Part One. Publications of the Mongolian Society. . First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Budapest, Hungary: Akademiai Kiado, 1976. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, light wear at the spine ends. Book is clean, tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Longman, Brown and Co.; T. Cadell; J. M. Richardson, Whittaker and Co., Etc. , 1831. SCARCE< the 8th Edition, 1831. In two volumes, Vol. I Spanish and English; Vol. II Ingles y Espanol. "Thoroughly revised, greatly improved, enlarged by the addition of many thousand words, and the two parts most carefully collated by M. Seoane, M.D.". Finely bound in signed Riviere contemporary binding of full calf, , the backs ornately tooled in gilt with gilt lettering on red and brown morocco labels, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Very Good Plus, early expert repair rear cover Vol. II, covers lightly rubbed, moderate toning to end papers only. A quite handsome set. . 8th Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, 1937. RARE. Supplement to LANGUAGE, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Language Dissertations, Number 23, January-March, 1937, edited by George Melville Bolling, Hans Sperber, W.F. Twaddell, and Edward Sapir. About Very Good, small name in ink top edge front cover, moderate edge wear to wrappers, what appear to be coffee stains to margins, not affecting text. 64 pp. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1848. "Containing copious exercises for reading the language, and for parsing and correction, adapted to the improved mode of tuition, for the use of schools and private students." xxiv, 256, 24 pp. advertising, title pages in English and Gaelic. Publisher's advertising end papers. Original embossed brown cloth, Very Good, spine sunned, chips to cloth at spine ends, from the collection of noted medieval scholar and polyglot James W. Marchand, his name stamp front end page. SCARCE, no copies found in current commerce. The first edition was published 1843 with the title "A Double Grammar of English and Gaelic, in which the Principles of both Languages are Clearly Explained".. Second Edition. Embossed Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paris: Crapelet, 1831. SCARCE. In full contemporary red morocco, signed "Lebrun Relieur", the back covered with repeating gilt decoration, the covers with triple gilt rule outer border and triple gilt rule inner border around gilt tooled floral band and with gilt decorations at corners, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, a lovely example of early 19th century fine French binding. Very Good mInus, old dampstain mostly to margins and where in text not affecting legibility, rear end page edge chipped, small chip to morocco at head of spine. With two fold-out facsimiles at rear, one in color.. First Edition. Morocco. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Oslo, Norway: Instiuttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning , 1932. Very Good, SCARCE in the 1932 First Edition, front cover small edge chips, missing the rear cover. . From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok, his signature in ink title page. A Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Sebeok was among the founders of biosemiotics and editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica, the leading periodical in the field. Excellent linguistics Association Copy. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.