Lot 63
Oriental languages, grammars, dictionaries.
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A collection of grammars, dictionaries of Oriental lanaguages to include: Khurshid Mirza, Mohamad Nizam-ud-din The Persian manual. Lahore, 1897. 8vo., publishers cloth; Gutbir, Giles Lexicon Syriacum … edidit … E. Henderson. London, [n.d., c. 1900?]; Ello, Agha Petros Assyrian, Kurdish & Yizidis indexed grammar and vocabulary. Baghdad, 1920. 8vo., quarter cloth, original printed wrappers; Palmer, E.H. A concise dictionary of the Persian language. London, 1919. 8vo., publisher's cloth; Feydit, Frederic Manuel de langue armenienne. Paris, 1948. 8vo., printed paper wrappers, edges uncut; Wright, W. The Book of Jonah in four semitic versions, viz Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic, and Arabic, with corresponding glossaries. London, 1857; Hony, H.C. A Turkish-English dictionary. Oxford, 1947. 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers; Redhouse, Sir James W. [Turkish title] A Turkish and English lexicon. New impression. Constantinople, 1921. Large 8vo., original cloth, inner joints week, and 22 others (30)