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$22.50
xx182pol208137

He Pa Auroa: A Dictionary and Language Guide for Students of Maori


CORMACK, IAN

Imperial octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: New House Publishers 2002

KEYWORDS: New Zealand languages dictionary dictionaries te reo Maori

$65.00
1y95b/19

A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use, Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, But Comprising Many from the Greek, Spanish and Italian Languages, Translated into English


MACDONNEL, D E

Sm octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, red speckling to page edges, vii + 416pp, VG (moderate rubbing & surface loss to leatherwork, moderate tanning to page edges, light cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to terminal pages only, sporadic light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: G & W B Whittaker 1822

KEYWORDS: dictionary Latin French history historical language English translations languages

$27.50
xx190pol208393

The World's Major Languages


COMRIE, BERNARD (Ed)

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1987

KEYWORDS: languages language linguistics global communication

$40.00
ak1/25/30

The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, Vol I


SCHRADER, EBERHARD & WHITEHOUSE, Rev OWEN C (Trans & Intro Preface)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, folding map, xxxii + 310pp, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, top corner of ffep missing, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, minor cracking to gutters, moderate annotation in ink & pencil to rear eps & terminals, moderate creasing to base of pgs153-156, light foxing sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: Williams and Norgate 1885

KEYWORDS: religion religious history old testament biblical antiquity syllabic writing languages linguistics

$45.00
ak2/7a/8

Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet


HOOKER, J T (Intro)

Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 384pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (in fully adhesive cover- fully affixed, minor creasing & chipping to edges- sl loss, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Guild Publishing 1990

KEYWORDS: languages written language history historical linguistics antiquity cuneiform Egyptian heiroglyphs linear b early alphabet Greek Etruscan

$25.00
xx186pol208698

Nupela Testamen / The New Testament in Tok Pisin


N/A

TEXT IN PIDGIN/TOK PISIN, duodecimo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Bible Society of Papua New Guinea 1988

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN PIDGIN TOK PISIN bibles bible new testament Christian Christianity languages

$40.00
ak2/18a/9

Towards Understanding Qur'anic Arabic: A Manual Teaching Arabic Through the Qur'an (Elementary)


SURTY, Dr MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM H I

LACKS DVDs, super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, black & green lettering to spine, 704pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate bruising to fore-edge of rear board, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: QAF Qur'anic Arabic Foundation 2008

KEYWORDS: qur'an religion Arabic language languages religious

$25.00
xxyhc209346

An Introduction to the Tokelauan Language


IOSUA, IOANE & BEAUMONT, CLIVE

Ex-library, octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Clive H and Daisy J M Beaumont 1997

KEYWORDS: languages language Tokelauan pacific islands

$22.50
xxkjd209711

Maori Made Easy: Workbook/Kete 1


MORRISON, SCOTTY

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto softcover (VG) heavy pen annotation throughout; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Raupo / Penguin Random Hosue 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand native language languages linguistics te reo Maori workbooks

$22.50
xxkjd209712

Maori Made Easy: Workbook/Kete 2


MORRISON, SCOTTY

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto softcover (VG) heavy pen annotation throughout; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Raupo / Penguin Random Hosue 2017

KEYWORDS: New Zealand native language languages linguistics te reo Maori workbooks

$20.00
xxkpe209859

ICS Reference Library: Spelling; Handwriting; Commercial Handwriting; Elements of English; Punctuation; Business Correspondence


ICS REFERENCE LIBRARY

Super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: International Correspondence Schools 1914

KEYWORDS: ics reference library handwriting language languages handwriting

$1700.00
ak3/21b/10

Grammaire Arabe: A L'Usage des Eleves de L'Ecole Speciale des Labgues Orientales Vivantes; Avec Figures (2 Vol Set)


DE SACY, M le Bon SILVESTRE

TEXT IN FRENCH, SECOND EDITION- REVISED & ENGLARGED, ORIGINAL BINDING, super octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to title plates on spines, deckled/roughcut page edges, vol 1- xx + 608pp, vol 2- xii + 697pp + 4pp to rear, folding tableauxs throughout, 8 folding plates to rear of vol 1, VG- (heavy cracking to front & rear hinges of spines to both vols- boards still firmly attached, v heavy rubbing/scuffing & surface loss to board edges/extrems- moderate surface loss, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards with minor soiling also, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor cracking to front gutters, moderate to heavy foxing to pages throughout both vols inc. plates/tableauxs- all looks very age appropriate, some page edges remain uncut)

PUBLISHER: Imprime par Autorisation du Roi, a L'imprimerie Royale 1831

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH antiquarian books original bindings languages language Arab Arabic grammar

$2450.00
ak4/1a/2

Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum & Arabicum


OEDERANO, Dn VALENTINO SCHINDLERO (SCHINDLER, VALENTIN)

Lg quarto, half leather bound beige buckram reasonably modern boards- contemporary eps also, gilt lettering to green leather title plate to spine, spine also has raised bands with gilt roman numerals, red speckling to page edges, string binding- somewhat exposed at front & rear gutters, (8) + 1992 individually numbered columns + unpaginated Rasche Theboth + unpaginated Index to rear, VG (light to moderate rubbing & scuffing/soiling to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to front pastedown, sm historic annotation in ink to full title page, minor water staining to base of page block & some fore-edges, heavy creasing & moderate foxing to title page, light chipping to page edges, varying degrees of foxing throughout- some quite heavy, string binding exposed at front & rear gutters- only minor cracking to gutters themselves)

PUBLISHER: Francofurti ad Moenum, Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennai. MDCXII (1612)

KEYWORDS: Valentin Schindler Valentino Schindlero Oederano theology theological commentaries lexicons lexicon pentaglotton religion religious history Hebrew semitic languages Latin texts antiquarian books

$25.00
xxpgh210657

The Jacaranda Dictionary and Grammar of Melanesian Pidgin


MIHALIC, F

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Jacaranda Press 1983

KEYWORDS: language languages dictionary dictionaries Pidgen Melanesia Melanesian linguistics

$25.00
xxyad213991

Learn Maori, with Parehau and Sharon: Book 1


PAORA, ROKA & PENETITO, CATHIE (Illus)

THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1975

KEYWORDS: New Zealand te reo Maori language education languages

$25.00
xxyad213992

Learn Maori, with Parehau and Sharon: Book 2


PAORA, ROKA & PENETITO, CATHIE (Illus)

THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1974

KEYWORDS: New Zealand te reo Maori language education languages

$75.00
1g34a/21

Psalterium Syriace


n/a

Foolscap 8vo, pp. [4] + 250; full brown leather boards, red label to spine lettered in gilt; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping, loss to spine extrem at head; heavy cracking to rear hinge, board coming loose; moderate cracking to front hinge with loss to leather; heavy chipping to spine with heavy loss to leather; moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to rear pastedown; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing throughout).

PUBLISHER: R. Watts 1825

KEYWORDS: religion religious psalter Syriac language ancient classical languages

$40.00
1s11a/9

Tamil: A Biography


SHULMAN, DAVID

Super octavo, orange heavy boards, gilt lettering to blue spine, xii + 402pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2016

KEYWORDS: foreign languages history Tamil language culture heritage south asia anthropology

$70.00
1t14a/9

An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics


LINK, PERRY

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, viii + 367pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: China Chinese language languages rhythm metaphors terminology phrases semantics linguistics

$45.00
1t14a/17

Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia


LEOW, RACHEL

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xx + 261pp, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges/corners, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2018

KEYWORDS: Malaysia Malaysian history languages government politics postcolonial Asia British empire

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