Search Results: Language from Thompson Rare Books

Leiden / Koln.: E.J. Brill., 1963. First Edition (& 1st printing). First edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 272 pp. Issued as Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten. Siebenter Band. From the Library of Dr. Charles Muses. Light tanning to wrappers, a couple of small creases. Very good to fine copy.

Leipzig : F.C.W. Vogel. 1817.. First edition. Octavo, contemporary marbled boards, leather spine, gilt titles. 908 pp. Three parts in One. Complete. Spine panel repaired at edges, but solid and holding nicely, corner of front flyleaf torn, some foxing. A complete and attractive c opy of a very rare book.

Berlin: Verlag fur Schriftlunde und Schriftunterricht, Heintze & Blanckertz. , No Date (circa 1910). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, bound in contemporary cloth with marbled paper boards, gilt titled leather label on spine. 36 pp. Index, plates. Text in German. This copy is from the Library of Dr. Charles Muses, founder of the Jacob Boehme Society. Slight foxing, a very good copy. ¶ On the origin of the alphabet and its development.

Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. , 1902. First Edition (& 1st printing). First edition. Octavo, bound in marbled paper boards with cloth spine, gilt titles. 140 pp. Some pencil marks to the margins, bookplate (depicting the Indian God Ganesh) of Louis Herbert Gray on front paste-down. This copy came to us from the library of Dr. Charles Muses. Some mild rubbing to binding; a very good copy. A very rare and important work in the history of linguistics. ¶ Knudtzon, a Norwegian linguist and historian, in this book recognizes the Hittite language as Indo-European on the basis of two letters (The zwei Arzawa-Briefe) found in Egypt. He later published The Amarna Letters, diplomatic correspondence of the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, better known as Akhenaten, in 1907 and 1915.

Wien & Peking,: Siebenberg-Verlag. 1941., 1941.. First Edition (& 1st printing). First edition. Octavo, original purple paper-covered boards. 135 pp. From the Library of Dr. Charles Muses. Slight fading to covers at spine, else a fine copy. ¶ A Mongolian - German Dictionary, a rare book printed in Vienna and Peking (Beijing) in the early years of the Second World War.

Chapel Hill: North Carolina : Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures [Distributed by University of North Carolina Press], , 1978.. First Edition (& 1st printing). First edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 171 pp, Bibliography. From the Library of Dr. Charles Muses. Slight browning, a very good copy.