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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
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- Used - Very Good
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- Collector's Edition
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- 2003
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$261.66
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Green leather with four raised bands and gilt particulars. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers and a silk ribbon. Some loss of gilt to edges, particularly to top (see image), otherwise a clean copy with no previous owners' names, affixed bookplates, or other defacements. Scarce edition.
7.25 x 9.75 in Item Price
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A Grammar of the Persian Language. To Which are Subjoined, Several Dialogues; with an Alphabetical List of the English and Persian Terms of Grammar; and an Appendix, on the Use of Arabic Words.
by Meerza Mohammad Ibraheem
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- Used - Good
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- 1841
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$169.31
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Detached paper covered boards sans spine. Some pages loose, but all present. Wear to edges on first and last few pages not affecting text. Text remains clean with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
7 x 10.75 in Item Price
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Les Proverbes Haitiens d'Edmond Chenet Transcrits en Orthographie Moderne et Annotes.
by Max Manigat
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- 2013
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$130.83
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Paper wraps with some wear and staining to covers (see image). Previous owner's name to rear of front wrap. Minor staining to edges not affecting text, otherwise no further defacements. Very scarce.
6 x 8.5 in Item Price
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Das Sprichwort als Philosoph; Das Sprichwort als Praktikus; and Niederdeutsche Sprichworter und Redensarten
by Ida von Duringsfeld and Karl Eichwald
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1863-1868
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$153.92
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Three works bound as one (see images for title pages). Paper covered boards. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription to front endpapers. Minor foxing throughout. Some wear to paper on spine with lack of paper to tail (see image). Text remains clean with no further defacements.
4.5 x 6.75 in Item Price
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Psycholinguistic Bases of Reading Disability: A Study in Sentence Comprehension. A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Speech and Hearing Sciences in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
by Sharon Goldsmith
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1980
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$146.22
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Cloth bound dissertation with title to spine. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
8.75 x 11 in Item Price
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Elementa Persica. Id Est Narrationes Persicae.
by Georgius Rosen
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1843
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$384.80
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Remnants of brown wraps to spine. Deckle edges. Lacking endpapers. Perforated library stamp to title and last page, along with deaccessioned stamp to title page of the Cleveland Public Library. Tears to front page edges (see image). No previous owners' names. Scarce.
5.25 x 7.5 in Item Price
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The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs; Comprising also a Selection of Approved Proverbs of Various Nations and Languages, Ancient and Modern. Interspersed with Numerous Engravings and Descriptions; Adapted for the Use of all Ages and Classes of Persons.
by John W. Barber
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1856
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$184.70
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Debossed brown cloth with gilt particulars to front cover and spine. Fold-out of "Proverbs of Solomon, King of Isreal", to front. Moderate foxing throughout and wear to corners, but otherwise remains a tight clean copy with no previous owners' names. 5 x 7.5 in Item Price
A$184.70
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Alvari Emmanuelis de Grammatica
by Manuel Alvares
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$184.70
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Full vellum boards with title to spine. Latin text throughout. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf and bookplate to front pastedown. 3.75 x 6.25 inches. Item Price
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Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words, The Art of Xu Bing
by Britta Erickson
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2001
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$107.74
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Pictorial paper wraps. Forward by Thomas L. Wentz. The Living Word by Xu Bing, translated by Ann L. Huss. Sections include: The Quiet Iconoclast; Mistrust of Language and the Book from the Sky; Language as Intellectual Game; To Be Human; and, Serve the People. Color illustrations throughout. Also contains a section on Chinese Names and Terms. No previous owners' names… Read more about this item Item Price
A$107.74
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A Glossary of Words used in South-West Lincolnshire. (Wapentake of Graffoe)
by R.E.G. Cole
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1886
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$115.44
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Scarce. Brown cloth boards with morocco label and gilt particulars to spine. Deckled edges. Alphabetically organized. Previous owner's name to title page and sporadic marginal notes in pencil throughout. Includes a map of Lincolnshire area as frontispiece. iii, 174 pp. 6 x 9 inches. Item Price
A$115.44
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Lenguas Infigenas e Indigenismos Italia e Iberoamerica 1492-1866
by Ana Cecilia Pena Vargas (Ana Cecilia Peña Vargas)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1987
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$115.44
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Eggshell colored paper wraps with text to all sides. Spanish text throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. This is #190 in the Biblioteca de la Academia Nacional de la Historia. Minor spotting to wrap and a crease to both front and back wrap (see image). 544 pp., [11 pp.] 6 1/4 x 9 inches. Item Price
A$115.44
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Dialogos Nuevos en Espanol y Frances, con muchos refranes, y la explicacionesde diversas maneras de hablar, propias a la lengua Espanola,; la construcion del Universo, y los terminos principales de las Artes, y la Sciencia; con un Nomenclator al fin.
by Francisco Sobrino (Francois Sobrino)
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- 1732
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$461.76
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Full brown speckled calf with 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine.
Published in Spanish and French text side-by-side in dual columns throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Small loss of calf to 3 of the 4 corners (see image). [viii], 356 pp., [1]. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Item Price
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Index to Characters in Williams' Dictionary
by S. Wells Williams
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1874
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$307.84
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Only the index, being a part of Williams' "A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language," and as such pagination starts at 1151 to 1250. This includes List of the Radicals and Characters in this Dictionary arranged by their Radicals. Half dark blue morocco with gilt rule over marbled boards; 2 raised bands, gilt particulars, and previous owner's name to spine.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ekphrasis, The Illusion of the Natural Sign
by Murray Krieger
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- As New
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1992
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$169.31
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Dark grey cloth boards with silver particulars to spine; purple dust jacket. Subjects include: Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation-- of Ekphrasis as a subject; Representation as Enargeia I and II; Language as Aesthetic Material; and a Post-Modern Retrospect as well as others. Sunning to spine of dust jacket (See image). Name of previous UCLA… Read more about this item Item Price
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Remarques historiques, philologiques, critiques et litteraires, sur quelques locutions, proverbes et dictons populaires inedits du moyen-age
by G. A. Crapelet (Georges-Adrien)
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1831
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$307.84
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Half red morocco over marbled boards; four raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. French text. 2 book plates to front paste down (Rob de Billy and de Guinzbourg). Occasional foxing. [II], 138 pp. 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches Item Price
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J. de Brunes nievwe wyn in oude le'er-zacken. : Bewijzende in Spreeck-woor den, 't vernuft der menschen, ende 't gheluck van onze Nederlandsche taele
by Johan de Brune
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- 1636
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$1,077.44
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[xxiv], 496, [8] pages. 80 x 137 mm. Full grained ruled black morocco with William Stirling's mark to boards. Stirling's bookplate & that of famed proverb collector de Guinzbourg to front endpapers. Keir's "Proverbs" plate to rear pastedown. Aeg. Colophon reads: Tot Middelburgh, Gedruckt by Hans van der Hellen, Boeck-drucker op de groote Marct 9 anno… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,077.44
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A Critical Pali Dictionary. Begun by V. Trenckner; revised, continued and edited by Dines Andersen, Helmer Smith and Hans Hendriksen. With epilegomena to vol. I by Helmer Smith.
by V. Trenckner, Dines Andersen, Helmer Smith and Hans Hendriksen.
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- 1924-1948
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$461.76
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Black pebbled cloth with gilt particulars to front cover. Some foxing along top edge. ; 4to; xxxix, 561, 99 pages. Item Price
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Dictionary of Proverbs of the Sinhalese, including also their adages, aphorisms, apologues, apothegms, bywords, dictums, maxims, mottoes, precepts, saws and sayings, together with the connected myths, legends and folk-tales.
by John M. Senaveratna
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1936
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$161.62
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Quarter black cloth over paper boards with particulars printed to front cover. Small moisture mark to bottom right corner of front cover, not affecting text. Bookseller's stamp and bookplate of noted proverb collector Lt. Colonel V. S. M. de Guinzbourg to front pastedown. A nice clean copy. ; 8vo; [vi], 168 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Item Price
A$161.62
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Sanskrit in Indonesia
by J. Gonda
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1952
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$230.88
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Dark green cloth. Foxing to fore edge and endpapers. The personal copy of Professor Royal W. Weiler, who taught Sanskrit at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, and whose name is neatly inscribed to the front fly paper. With folding linguistic map of Indonesia. Stamp to title page. A nice clean copy without further markings. ; Small 4to ; xi,… Read more about this item Item Price
A$230.88
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Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Worterbuch der Altindischen Sprache
by C. C. Uhlenbeck
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1898-99
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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A$76.96
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. Black cloth with gilt particulars to spine. The personal copy of Professor Royal W. Weiler, who taught Sanskrit at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, and whose name is neatly inscribed to the front free fly paper. Some repairs, tears and losses to edges of acidic paper from title page through page 19 not affecting… Read more about this item Item Price
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