1.  SEVORTIAN SEVORTYAN E. V.. Etimologicheskij slovar' tjurkskix jazykov.  (Obshchetyurkskie i mezhtyurkskie osnovii na glasn'ie). Moscow Moskva: Nauka, 1974. First edition. 767pp.  Hard Cover. V. G.
Etymological dictionary of the Turkic languages. (24150)         £75.00

2.  MAY, Karl. Durch das Land der Skipetaren. Reiseerlebnisse. Cologne: Lingen, 1977. Reprint. 359pp.. Text in German. Hardback. V. G.
Through the Land of the Shqiptars (Albanians) - "Reiseroman".  Novel. (24151) £5.00

3.  HEINE, Bernd, SCHADEBERG, Th. C., WOLFF, E..  (Eds.). Die Sprachen Afrikas: Mit zahlreichen Karten und Tabellen. Gesamtausgabe. Hamburg: Buske, 1981. First thus. ISBN: 3871184330. Full edition in one volume, 665pp., 23 maps, index, notes on authors' . 1977 article on "The Spread of Bantu Languages" by D. W. Phillipson loosely enclosed. Hardcover. Near new.
Einleitung, I: Die Afrikanischen Sprachfamilien: Niger-Kordofanisch, AfroasiatischNilosaharanisch, Khoisan.  II: Sprachvergleichnung. III: Sprache in Kontext. Register, Angaben. (24153)   £85.00

4.  MECKELEIN, Richard. Georgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1928. First edition. Later cloth new endpapers, xxiii+656pp..  There is water damage to some pages with absolute no loss and very minimal staining, many pages are cockled, though.  Appears to have been professionally repaired and dried. Hard Cover. G+.  (24154)             £60.00

5.  PEKOVIC, Ratko et al. Kosovska Bitka.  Mit, Legenda i Stvarnost. Belgrade Beograd: KIZ, 1988. Second edition. Quarto, 245pp including many colour and b/w illustrations.  Text in Serbian. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
The Battle of Kosovo: Myth, Legend, Reality. (24155)              £25.00

6.  MANN, S. E.. Albanian Literature.  An Outline of Prose, Poetry, and Drama. London: Quaritch, 1955. First edition. 121pp., short bibliography.  Small tear to dust-wrapper else excellent. Hard Cover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Presents a history of Albanian writing and writers from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 1950s.  Contents include The Catholic Tradition, The Eighteenth Century, The Bible Tradition, The Albanians of Egypt, The Prizrend League and the Tosk Exiles, The Scutari School, Linguists and Folklorists. (24156)      £16.00

7.  BERNATZIK, Hugo Adolf. Albanien.  Das Land der Skipetaren. Zweite Auflage. Vienna Wien: Seidel & Sohn, 1932. Second edition. 63pp+105 plates (some colour). Text in German. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Fascinating glimpse of Albania in 1930s by well-known German travel writer and photographer, with photographs not only of the native Albanians, but also of the nomadic Vlachs, also Bulgarians.  Bernatzik was well-known for his bird photography; pelicans and other birds feature. (24157)   £25.00

8.  Haugen, Einar Ingvald. The Scandinavian languages: An introduction to their history . (The Great languages). London: Faber and Faber, 1976. First edition. ISBN: 0571104231. 507pp., 22 maps, 10 tables, 13 figures, lists of texts.  A lovely bright copy, possibly unread. Hardback. Near new in near new dust-wrapper.
Divided into two sections.  A: The Scandinavian Languages Today.  Looking at Dansih, Dano-Norwegian, Faroese, Iceladic, New-Norwegian, Swedish.  B: The Growth of Scandinavian.  A Historical Survey.Detailed account of the development of these languages and many of the spoken dialects of German more especially from the Common Scandinavian.  Sketches are provided of the alphabets, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. (24158)                £95.00

9.  HOVANNISIAN, Richard G.. The Armenian People.  From Ancient to Modern Times.  Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century.  Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan, 1997. First edition. ISBN: 0333619730. 2 vols., xii+372pp., xii+493pp.. Hardback. As new, as new dust-wrappers.
Vol. II:  ISBN  0333619749 (24159)              £85.00

10.  HARDIE, D. W. F.. A Handbook of Modern Breton (Amorican). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1948. First edition. Orig. green cloth, small 8vo., 241pp..   Dust-wrapper a little soiled, chipped and neatly repaired inside. Book in excellent condition; bright and clean.  Loosely enclosed, Melville Richards'  3pp. review of the book. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
"The Introduction on the historical background ... is both illuminating and scholarly  ..The description of the Dialects, Orthography and Phonology is short but competent  .. a  mine of information coherently and intelligibly presented." M. Richards. (24160)          £30.00

11.  LANG, D. M.. A Modern History of Georgia. Asia-Africa Series. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. First edition. xiv+298pp., 40 b/w illus. A very good clean copy.  The Independent, 1993 interview with Shevardnadze loosely enclosed. Hard Cover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24161)                £15.00

12.  WILSON, Duncan. Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic.  1787-1864.  Literacy, Literature, and National Independence in Serbia. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970. First edition. 415pp., 5 b/w plates, 2 maps.  A very nice, bright copy seemingly unread.  Loosely enclosed Neal Ascherson's July 1991article on Serbs and Croats and a British Library poster advertising its 1987 exhibition on Vuk Karadzic. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24162) £50.00

13.  VAMBÉRY, Arminius. The Life and Adventures of Arminius Vambéry written by himself. with an appreciation by Max Nordau. London: Fisher Unwin, 1914. Reprint. xxiv+316pp., 17 b/w plates.  Damp spotting to fore-edges and preliminary pages but a bright, tight copy, possibly unread. Hardback. V. G.  (24164)         £20.00

14.  BUCHHOLZ, Oda, FIEDLER, Wilfried. Albanische Grammatik. Leipzig: VEB, 1987. First edition. ISBN: 3324000254. Large 8vo., 582pp..  Text in German. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Albanian descriptive grammar for German speakers. (24165)  £75.00

15.  CAMAJ, Martin. Albanian Grammar with Exercises, Chrestomathy and glossaries. Collaborated on and translated by Leonard Fox. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1984. ISBN: 3447024674. Large 8vo., xvi+337pp..  A very good copy. Hardback. V. G.
I) Phonology. II) Morphology. III) Syntax with key to exercises, chrestomathy, glossary and subject index.  "This grammar is essential for anyone wishing to master the Geg, or Arbëresh, dialects.."  W. B. Bland 311. (24167)         £30.00

16.  Hewitt, George . Georgian: A Learner's Grammar (Routledge Grammars). London: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 0415102731. xi+483pp.. Paperback. V. G.  (24169) £20.00

17.  POPPE, Nicholas. Mongolian Language Handbook. Washington: Centre for Applied Linguistics, 1970. xv+175pp.. Paperback. V. G.  (24170)  £35.00

18.  PETYT, K. M..  The Study of Dialect.  An introduction to dialectology. The Language Library.  Edited by David Crystal. London: Deutsch, 1980. ISBN: 0233972129. x+246pp.  Bibliography, notes, phonetic symbols, indices. A very nice bright copy in price-clipped d.w.. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Language, Dialect and Accent, Traditional Approaches, Development of Dialectology, Social and Urban Dialectology. (24171)                £12.00

19.  CHANG, Raymond.  CHANG, Margaret Scrogin. Speaking of Chinese. The Language Library.  Edited by David Crystal. London: Deutsch, 1980. Revised edition. ISBN: 0233971769. x+198pp.  A very nice bright copy. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Speaking of Chinese, Written Chinese, Spoken Chinese, History of the Language, Domestic Chinese, Calligraphy, Chart of Dynasties. Common Radicals, Birth Years and Animal Signs. (24172)       £8.00

20.  MIGLIORINI, Bruno. The Italian Language.  Abridged and recast by T. Gwynfor Griffith. London: Faber & Faber, 1984. Revised edition. ISBN: 0571180736. 533pp..  A very nice bright copy. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Aspects of Imperial Latinity in Italy, From Latin to Italian, the Duecento, Dante, Trecento, Quattrocento etc. to the French Invasion to the Kingdom of Italy, Unification, 20th century developments. (24173)      £25.00

21.  PALMER, L. R.. The Greek Language. London: Faber, 1980. First edition. ISBN: 0571113907. xii+355pp., distinctive striped dust-wrapper, all in excellent condition. Hard Cover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Outline History: Prehistory, Earliest Texts, Greek Dialects, Literary Languages: Poetry & Prose, Classical Greek. Comparative Historical Grammar: Writing, Pronunciation, Phonology, Morphology. (24174)      £25.00

22.  Turner, R.L. Collected Papers, 1912-73 (School of Oriental & African Studies). London: Oxford University Press, 1975. ISBN: 019713582X. xvi+435pp.. Hardcover. Near new in near new price-clipped dust-wrapper.
Author of the "Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language" and the "Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-aryan Languages".  Includes papers on Dardic and Romani. (24175) £45.00

23.  VENTZEL, T. V..  The Gypsy Language. Trans. from the Russian by S.S.Gitman. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1983. 104pp., glossary, long bibliography, verb lists.  Review from TLS loosely enclosed. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar with long bibliography and glossary.  "In this compact monograph (the author) reviews the grammar and historical position of the gypsy language" (24176)        £45.00

24.  SANZHEYEV, G. D..  The Modern Mongolian Language. Trans. from the Russian by D. M. Segal. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1973. 129pp., bibliography,  Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar with long bibliography and glossary. (24177)           £20.00

25.  SIRK, U..  The Buginese Language. Trans. from the Russian by E. H. Tsipan. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1973. 122pp., bibliography,  Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar with long bibliography and glossary. (24178)           £20.00

26.  DUBNOVA, Ye Z. The Rwanda Language. Trans. from the Russian by S. S. Gitman.. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1984. 109pp., bibliography,  Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar with long bibliography and glossary. (24179)           £30.00

27.  PARFIONOVICH, Y. M..  The Written Tibetan Language. Trans. from the Russian by S. S. Gitman.. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1982. 176pp., bibliography, glossary. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar with long bibliography and glossary. (24180)           £25.00

28.  MOREV, L. N., MOSKALYOV, A.A., PLAM, Y. Y..  The Lao Language. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1979. 126pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar with long bibliography. (24181)   £12.00

29.  TITOV, E. G.. The Amharic Language. Trans. from the Russian by E. H. Tsipan. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1976. 118pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar. (24182)            £16.00

30.  BYKOVA, E. M..  The Bengali Language. Trans. from the Russian by M. E. Feldman. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 189pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar. (24183)            £16.00

31.  ANDRONOV, M. S..  The Kannada Language. Trans. from the Russian by V. Korotky. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1969. 86pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar. (24184)            £15.00

32.  SYROMIATNIKOV, N. A..  The Ancient Japanese Language. Trans. from the Russian by Y. N. Filippov. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 148pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar. (24185)            £20.00

33.  KRUPA, Viktor. The Maori Language. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1968. 98pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar. (24186)            £15.00

34.  GORGONIYEV, Y. A..  The Khmer Language. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1966. 134pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Cambodian. (24187)                £15.00

35.  ZAWADOWSKI, Y. N..  The Maghrib Arabic Dialects. Trans. from the Russian by S. S. Gitman and A. Y. Militaryov.  Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1978. 61pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of North African Arabic (24188) £15.00

36.  LIPIN, L. A..  The Akkadian Language. Trans. from the Russian by D. M. Segal.  Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1973. 188pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar. (24189)            £12.00

37.  ANDRONOV, M. S..  The Brahui Language. Trans. from the Russian by V. Korotky.  Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1980. 111pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of the Brahui; a Northern Dravidian language spoken in Baluchistan and Sind (Pakistan) as well as surrounding areas. (24190)  £25.00

38.  RUBINCHIK, Yu A.. The Modern Persian Language. Languages of Asia and Africa.  Series founded by Prof. G. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1971. 134pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar. (24191)            £12.00

39.  KIÇI, Gasper. Albanian - English Dictionary. Italy: For the author, 1978. Second edition. ISBN: 0686179048. Large 8vo., 448pp., author’s stamp to last page, errata slip.  An excellent hardback copy.   Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
An Albanian-English dictionary containing some 30,000 words.  There is an introduction on Albanian pronunciation, together with appendices of Albanian abbreviations and geographical names. (24192)              £30.00

40.  Mallory, J.P. In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames & Hudson , 1989. ISBN: 050005052X. 288pp., 175 b/w illustrations.  Review loosely enclosed. Hardcover. As New.  (24193)              £12.00

41.  BOSLEY, Keith. The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lönnrot. Translated from the Finnish with an Introduction and Notes by Keith Bosley and a Foreword by Albert B. Lord. Oxford: OUP, 1989. ISBN: 0192817000. lvi+679pp.. Paperback. V. G.  (24194)  £6.00

42.  MINASSIAN, Martiros. Grammaire d'Armenien Oriental. New York: Caravan Books, 1980. First edition. ISBN: 0882060406. 373pp.. Hardcover. As New.  (24195)            £45.00

43.  SUÁREZ, Jorge A. The Mesoamerican Indian Languages. (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge: CUP, 1983. ISBN: 0521296692. xvii+206pp.. Paperback. V. G.  (24196)                £20.00

44.  HEWITT, George . A Georgian Reader. (with texts, translation and vocabulary). London: SOAS, 1996. First edition. ISBN: 0728602520. xvi+379pp.. Paperback. Near new.
Recommended for those students who have completed the author's "Georgian: A Learner's Grammar" and need to practise and extend their knowledge with original Georgian writing. (24197)              £25.00

45.  PALMER, L. R.. The Latin Language. London: Faber, 1955. Second impression. viii+372pp., index, bibliog. Hardback. V. G. no dust-wrapper.
The history of the Latin language from the Bronze Age to the break-up of the Roman Empire. (24198)        £20.00

46.  PENNINGTON, Anne E.. Music in Medieval Moldavia.  Muzica in Moldova Medievala. 16th Century.  With an essay by D. Conomos.. Edited by Titus Moisescu.  Romanian version by Constantin Stihi-Boos. Bucharest: The Musical Publishing House, 1985. First edition. Large p/b., 287pp., 38 b/w plates, V. G..  Dual language text Romanian and English.  Covers a little creased as usual but virtually unused. Paperback. V.G.  (24199)   £45.00

47.  Rayfield, Donald. The Literature of Georgia: A History. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. First edition. ISBN: 0198151918. xvi+360pp.. Hardcover. As new, as new dust-wrapper.  (24200)     £60.00

48.  NALBANDIAN, Louise. The Armenian Revolutionary Movement.  The Development of Armenian Political Parties through the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. First edition. ix+247pp., notes, bibliography, index. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Covers in detail the history of the Armenian revolutionists' armed struggle against government of the Ottoman Turks beginning with the first major uprising in 1862 and extending to teh culmination of the Turkish Armenian massacres in 1896. (24201)   £60.00

49.  COOPER, Christopher. Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae 1685. Menston, U.K.: Scolar Press, 1968. Facsimile reprint. Hardback. V. G.
Cooper's English grammar concentrated on the practical task of teaching English pronunciation, spelling and grammar to foreigners and to English schoolchildren.  Considered a landmark in English seventeenth century philology.  Reproduced (original size) here in facsimile (24202)  £30.00

50.  THOMSON, Robert, HOWARD-JOHNSTON, James. The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos translated, with notes by R. W. Thomson.  Part I: Translation and notes. Part II: Historical Commentary byJames Howard-Johnston.  Assistance from Tim Greenwood. Translated Texts for Historians.  Volume 31. Liverpool: University Press, 1999. First edition. ISBN: 0853235643. 2 vols., lxxvii+355pp., maps, index. Paperbacks. As New.  (24203)  £30.00

51.  KADARÉ, Ismaïl.  Printemps albanais.  chronique, lettres, réflexions. Traduit de l'albanais par Michel Métais. Paris: Fayard, 1991. 320pp.. Wrappers. V. G.
L'édition original albanise est simultanément publiée aux éditions Fayard sous le titre Nga nje dhjetor tjetrin. (24204)               £5.00

52.  LÖW  (LOEW), Immanuel. Aramæische pflanzennamen. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1881. First edition. Later nineteenth century cloth backed, marbled boards, title gilt to spine, 490pp..  Very occasional mild damp spotting else in very good condition. Hardback. V. G.  (24205)  £175.00

53.  Aulestia, Gorka and Linda White. Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary (Basque Series). Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992. ISBN: 0874171784. xi + 669pp.   Paperback. As New.  (24206)   £9.00

54.  CASTELLAN, Georges. L'albanie. que sais-je? Paris: Presses Universitaires de France., 1980. First edition. ISBN: 2130362176. 127pp.. Wrappers. V. G.  (24207)   £5.00

55.  DURHAM, Edith. High Albania. Virago Travellers. With a New Introduction by John Hodgson. London: Virago, 1985. Reprint. ISBN: 0860687155. xvi+352pp., maps.  Light wear. Paperback. V. G.  (24208)               £8.50

56.  MACARTNEY, C. A.. The Magyars in the Ninth Century. Cambridge: CUP, 1968. 241pp., apps., indices, map.   Hard Cover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24209)              £35.00

57.  Angold, Michael. Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001. First edition. ISBN: 0297835963. xiii+186pp., maps, glossary, bibliography, index. Hardcover. Near new in near new dust-wrapper.
Charts the development and characteristics of Byzantine art and society: an excellent introduction this important Euopean civilization. (24210)  £8.00

58.  Mango, Cyril. The Oxford History of Byzantium. Oxford: OUP, 2002. ISBN: 0198140983. xviii+334pp., colour plates, figs., maps. Hardcover. As new, as new dust-wrapper.  (24211)     £9.00

59.  HAMMERICH, L. L., JAKOBSON, R., SCHOONEVELD, Elizabeth van, STARCK, T., STENDER-PETERSEN, Ad. (Eds.). Tönnies Fenne's Low German Manual of Spoken Russian.  Pskov 1607.  Volume I; Facsimile copy. Volume II: Transliteration and Translation. Volume III: Russian - Low German glossary.  Volume IV: Mittelniederdeutsch-neuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch zum Russisch-niederdeutschen Gesprächsbuch. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1961, 1970, 1985, 1986. Facsimile reprint. 4 vols. all in dust-wrappers and in slipcases.  All as new except volume one where there is some tearing  and creasing to the dust-wrapper (otherwise also in as-new condition). Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrappers.
Prefaced and assisted by by Roman Jakobson, Elizabeth van Schooneveld et al. (24212)                £125.00

60.  Robinson, Andrew. Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts. London: McGraw-Hill, 2002. First edition. ISBN: 0071357432. Small quarto, 352pp., illustrated in b/w throughout.  Heavy book, please enquire regarding postal charges before ordering. Hardcover. As new, as new dust-wrapper.  (24213)     £16.00

61.  DRUCKER, Johanna. The Alphabet Labyrinith. The Letters in History and Imagination. London: Thames and Hudson, , 1995. ISBN: 0500016089. Large 8vo., 320pp., 339 half tone and b/w illus. throughout. Paperback. As New.  (24214)      £12.00

62.  OBOLENSKY, Dmitri. The Bogomils.  A Study in Balkan Neo-Manichaeism. U.K.: Anthony C. Hall, 1972. Reprint. xiv+317pp., folding map, apps. and long bibliography. Hardback. As New.  (24215) £18.00

63.  MAURER, Walter Harding. The Sanskrit Language.  An Introductory Grammar and Reader. U.K.: Curzon, 1995. First edition. ISBN: 0700703527. 2 vols., 830pp..  32 lessons with appendices, lexicon and glossary. Hardbacks. As New.
A Sanskrit course conventionally presented but taking into consideration that many modern students have much less knowledge of grammatical terms than previous generations.  Reading texts are chosen from connected material to provide interest and stimulation in continuing, also a great deal of attention is paid to the explanation and practise of the Devanagari system. (24216)  £60.00

64.  BERNAL, Martin. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization.  Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985.  Volume II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. London: Free Association Books, 1987, 1991. 2 vols., xxxii+575pp., xxxiii+736pp., maps, charts, tables. Paperback. As New.  (24217)           £20.00

65.  GEORGIEV, Vladimir. Introduzione alla storia delle lingue indeuropee. Rome: Edizione dell'ateneo, 1966. Large 8vo., 477pp..  Text in Italian. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Introduction to the history of Indo-European languages. (24218)            £60.00

66.  HAMILTON, Janet and Bernard, STOYANOV, Yuri . Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World C.650-C.1450: Selected Sources translated and annotated by Janet Hamilton and Bernard Hamilton, assistance with the translation of Old Slavonic texts by Yuri Stoyanov.   Manchester Medieval Sources Series. Manchester: University Press, 1998. ISBN: 071904765X. xvii+327pp., maps, gazeteer, glossary, bibliography. Paperback. As New.  (24219)  £25.00

67.  Shibatani, Masayoshi. The Languages of Japan (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge: CUP, 1990. First edition. ISBN: 0521360706. x+411pp., maps.  Hardcover. As new, as new dust-wrapper.
Part 1: The Ainu Language.  Part 2: The Japanese Language. (24220)   £25.00

68.  YOUSSOUPOFF, Prince. Lost Splendour. London: Folio, 1996. Reprint. xix+252pp., b/w illustrations, introduction by Nikolai Tolstoy. Hardback in slipcase. As New.  (24221)         £18.00

69.  BUTCHER, May. Elements of Maltese.  A Simple, Practical Grammar. Pronunciation in English Phonetics. Oxford: OUP, 1938. First edition. Small 8vo., xi+200pp..   Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24222)  £35.00

70.  BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf . Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches Translated with notes and bibliography and an appendix on the scripts by Peter T. Daniels. Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1995. ISBN: 0931464102. Quarto, xxiii+276pp.. Paperback. V. G.  (24223)         £45.00

71.  COULMAS, Florian. The Writing Systems of the World. (Language Library). Oxford: Blackwell , 1989. First edition. ISBN: 0631165134. ix+302pp.. Hardcover. As new, as new dust-wrapper.
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives.  Part II: Writing Systems.  Part III: Practical Issues.  Part IV: Conclusion. Refs., App. I: Ancient Near Eastern Chronology. App. II: Far Eastern Chronology Index. (24224)    £30.00

72.  SAMPSON, John. The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales being the older form of British Romani preserved in the speech of the clan of Abram. Oxford: Clarendon, 1968. Reprint. Small quarto, xxiii+419pp..  Very slightly shaken, very  spotting to upper fore-edge, dust-wrapper chipped at extremities and neatly repaired inside.  However a nice copy of  this rare book. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24225)  £450.00

73.  Fischer, Steven R. Glyphbreaker. New York: Copernicus, 1997. First edition. ISBN: 0387982418. x+234pp.. Hardcover. As new, as new dust-wrapper.
The story of Fischer's decipherments of both the Phaistos Disk, a Cretan artefacr and of Ronrongo, an early  (and possibly only) indigenous script of Oceania. (24226)             £9.00

74.  Wexler, Paul. The Ashkenazic Jews: A Slavo-Turkic People in Search of a Jewish Identity. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Pub, 1993. ISBN: 0893572411. 306pp., with 30pp bibiography. Paperback. As New.  (24227)         £16.00

75.  HOPKIRK, Peter. On Secret Service East of Constantinople.  The Plot to Bring down the British Empire. London: BCA, 1994. xii+431pp., 32 b/w plates, maps, bibliography index.  Hardback. As new, as new dust-wrapper.  (24229)      £8.00

76.  DEDEYAN, Gerard (Ed.). Histoire des Armeniens. Toulouse: Privat, 1982. ISBN: 2708923994. 701pp., b/w plates, 24 maps.  Text in French. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
History of the Armenians (24230)   £25.00

77.  MÜHLHÄUSLER, Peter. Pidgin & Creole Linguistics (Language in Society). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1986. ISBN: 063113574X. 320pp., index. Paperback. V. G.  (24231)       £15.00

78.  RUHLEN, Merritt. On the Origin of Languages. Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy. California: Stanford University Press, 1994. ISBN: 0804723214. xii+342pp.. Hardback. As new, as new dust-wrapper.  (24233)        £25.00

79.  TOLEGIAN, Aram. Armenian Poetry Old and New.  A Bilingual Anthology. Compiled and translated with an introduction. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1979. First thus. 379pp.. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Representative poems of sixteen centuries, chronologically arranged, including the complete text of the Hovhanness Toumanian version of the folk epic "David of Sassoun". (24234)                £35.00

80.  KING, Alan R. & OLAIZOLA, Begotxu. Colloquial Basque. London: Routledge, , 1996. ISBN: 0415121094. 246pp., A very nice bright copy.
 Paperback. Near new.  (24235)       £9.00

81.  AVAKIAN, Anne M.. Armenian Folklore Bibliography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. First edition. ISBN: 0520097947. xxvii+212pp.. Hardback. As New.  (24236)         £25.00

82.  RIZA, Emin (prepared) VESELI, Refik (photos). Gjirokastra. Museum - City. Tirana: 8 Nëntori, , 1978. First English language edition. 1978 Landscape, 24cm.x25cm. mainly colour photographs, English text, d.w..  V. G.. Hardback. V.G./Very Good DJ.  (24237)                £18.00

83.  Norman, Jerry and S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. Dressler, C. Ewen, R. Lass. Chinese. (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
. Reprint. ISBN: 0521296536. xi+291pp..  Lower cover creased with small closed tear else in very good condition. Paperback. V. G.
General introduction to the Chinese language tracing its history from the beginnings in the second millenium BC to the present day and providing a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. (24238)          £18.00

84.  COMRIE, Bernard (Ed.). The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Routledge, London, 1990. First edition. ISBN: 0415057728. xii+315pp., index, V. G.. Paperback. Near new.
Indo-Aryan, Sanskrit, Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Iranian, Persian, Pashto, Afroasiatic, Semitics, Arabic, Hebrew, Hausa and chadic, Tamil and Dravidian, Niger-Kordofanian, Yoruba, Swahili and Bantu. (24239)      £25.00

85.  COMRIE, Bernard (Ed.). The Major Languages of Eastern Europe. London: Routledge, , 1990. Reprint. ISBN: 041505771x. xii+315pp., index,  Paperback. Near new.
Indo-European Languages, Slavonic, Russian, Polish, Czech and Slovak, Serbo-croat, Greek, Uralic, Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish and Turkic. (24240)    £40.00

86.  HALLIDAY, M. A. K..  The Language of the Chinese "Secret History of the Mongols". Publications of the Philological Society XVII. London: Blackwell, 1959. xvi+235pp.. Hardback. V. G.
An analysis of the language of a fourteenth century Chinese version of the Secret History of the Mongols. It is the longest text of the period using the colloquial rather than the literary language. (24241)      £15.00

87.  Bardakjian, Kevork B. A Textbook of Modern Western Armenian. New York: Caravan Books, 1977. First edition. ISBN: 0882060120. viii+319pp.. Hardback. Near new.  (24242)          £25.00

88.  Martinas, Dumitru and V. M. Ungureanu, Ion Coja, Laura Treptow. The Origins of the Changos. Iasi: Center for Romanian Studies, 1999. ISBN: 9739839142. 200pp.. Hardcover. Near new.
Chango or Csango meaning 'mixed' is the name of a people living in Romania and Moldova.  They are catholic and usually bilingual in Romanian and Hungarian, little is known of their origins.  The author was born to a Chanog family in the village of Butea. "The history of research on the Changos is full of long, adventurous, and very often futile searches.  This problem has held the attention of scholars because of their Magyar dialect, which can still be heard in a few villages in Moldavia."  Introduction (24244)            £25.00

89.  Ó Siadhail, Mícheál. Learning Irish - book plus 3 cassettes. An Introductory Self-Tutor.  New edition entirely re-set. New Haven: Yale University, 1996. Reprint. ISBN: 0300064624. vii+309pp with Irish-English and English-Irish vocabularies.  3 cassettes in box.    Paperback. Near new.
Cassettes: ISBN 0300064632 (24246)           £15.00

90.  Samuelian, Thomas J. Armenian Dictionary in Transliteration: Western Pronunciation : Armenian-English English-Armenian. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1993. ISBN: 0781802075. xiii+139pp. Paperback. Near new.
Very useful 'compromise' for those who have a familiarity with the language but do not necessarily know the script.  Both transliteration and Armenian script given. (24247)                £35.00

91.  RENFREW, Colin and NETTLE, Daniel  (Eds.). Nostratic: Examining a Linguistic Macrofamily (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages). Cambridge: Mcdonald Institute for Archeological, 1999. ISBN: 1902937007. Large p/b., 419pp.. Paperback. Near new.  (24248)  £35.00

92.  HÜBSCHMANN, Heinrich. Armenische Grammatik. Erster Teil: Armenische Etymologie (all published) 3., unveränderte Auflage. Olms, Hildesheim, 1972. Reprint. ISBN: 3487044625. xxiv+575pp., V. G.. Hard Cover. V.G.
Facsimile of 1897 edn.   In five parts dealing with loan words in Armenian. (24249)           £30.00

93.  ALBANIAN DICTIONARY. Fjalor enciklopedik Shqiptar. ( Albanian Encyclopaedic Dictionary.). Tirana: Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH, 1985. Quarto, xv+1245pp., 2 columns, b/w  and colour illus..  Entire text in Albanian.  Very heavy postage, please enquire about postal rates before ordering. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24250)         £35.00

94.  SMYTH, David. Teach Yourself Thai. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. Reprint. ISBN: 0340590416. v+265pp..   Book only. Paperback. Near new.
Fifteen graded units of dialogues, culture and notes, introduction to script, pronunciation guide, Thai into English vocabulary. (24251)                £5.00

95.  Se, Diarmuid O and Joseph Sheils. Irish: A Complete Course for Beginners. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. Reprint. ISBN: 0340564903. 316pp., book only. Paperback. Near new.
Graded units of dialogues, culture and notes, introduction to script, pronunciation guide, Thai into English vocabulary. (24252)                £6.50

96.  SCURFIELD, Elizabeth. Teach Yourself Chinese.  A Complete Course for Beginners. London,: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998. Reprint. ISBN: 0340519592. xxii+357pp..  Inoffensive crease to upper and lower cover, internally clean and tight. Paperback. V. G.
Graded units of dialogues, culture and notes, introduction to script, pronunciation guide, Chinese into English vocabulary. (Modern Standard Chinese: Mandarin) (24253)           £5.00

97.  PONTIFEX, Zsuzsa. Teach Yourself Hungarian.  A Complete Course for Beginners. London,: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. First edition. ISBN: 0340562862. xxii+352pp..   Paperback. Near new.
Graded units of dialogues, culture and notes, introduction to script, pronunciation guide, Hungarian into English vocabulary. (24254)                £9.00

98.  PONTIFEX, Zsuzsa. Teach Yourself Hungarian.  A Complete Course for Beginners. London,: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. First edition. ISBN: 0340562862. xxii+352pp..  Spine creased else very good. Paperback. Near new.
Graded units of dialogues, culture and notes, introduction to script, pronunciation guide, Hungarian into English vocabulary. (24255)                £7.00

99.  NIHALANI, Paroo, TONGUE, R. K., HOSALI, Priya. Indian and British English.  A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation. Delhi: OUP, 1979. viii+260pp. Paperback. Near new.
Divided into Lexicon of Usage in which the authors analyse about 1000 English words and phrases used distinctively in India. The second part the Dictionary of Pronunciation is prescriptive, taking into account British RP but suggesting a more easily attainable Indian model. (24256)  £9.00

100.  RAO, G. Subba. Indian Words in English.  A Study in Indo-British Cultural and Linguistic Relations. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969. Reprint. xii+139pp..  Price-clipped else as new. Hard Cover. Near new in near new dust-wrapper.  (24257)    £10.00

101.  ROMAINE, Suzanne. Pidgin and Creole Languages (Longman Linguistics Library). U.K.: Longman Publishing , 1990. ISBN: 0582296471. xi+373pp.. Paperback. V. G.
The author's premise is that pidgins have a recognisable structure of their own, independent of the languages involved in the original contact. She also discusses the role of creative innovation, transmission and continuity of pidgin structures, and borrowing in creole formation. (24258)             £10.00

102.  KARLGREN, Bernhard. Sound & Symbol in Chinese. language & Literature Series.  The World's Manuals. London: OUP Humphrey Milford, 1929. Reprint. Orig. brown cloth, 111pp..  A very nice, bright copy. Hard Cover. V.G.  (24259)         £12.00

103.  Christides, Vassilios. 201 Modern Greek Verbs (201 Verbs Series). New York: Barron's Educational Series, 1980. First edition. ISBN: 0812004752. xi + 243pp.  With bibliography and verb index. Paperback. V. G.  (24260)   £5.00

104.  MACKRIDGE, Peter. The Modern Greek Language. A Descriptive Analysis of Standard Modern Greek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Reprint. ISBN: 0198158548. xxiii+387pp., bibliography, index. Paperback. Near new.  (24261)                £18.00

105.  HOLES, Clive . Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties (Longman Linguistics Library). London: Longman, 1995. First edition. ISBN: 0582028841. xiii+343pp..  Paperback. Near new.  (24262)             £20.00

106.  SAMUELIAN, Thomas J. , STONE, Michael E.(Ed.). Medieval Armenian Culture. University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies 6. Chicago: Scholars Press, 1984. First thus. ISBN: 0891306420. xv+468pp. Paperback. As New.  (24263)     £45.00

107.  BASSE, Bjarne, JENSEN, Kirsten (Eds.). Eskimo Languages.  Their Present-Day Conditions.  "Majority Language Influence on Eskimo Minority Languages.". Arkona: Aarhus, 1979. ISBN: 8787044153. 200pp.. Paperback. As New.  (24264)     £35.00

108.  ALDERSON, A.D., IZ, Fahir. The Oxford English-Turkish Dictionary. Oxford: OUP, 1978. Second edition. ISBN: 0198641230. xvi+619pp.. Shelf number to spine, faint stamp to upper board, traces of library labels to endpapers but a very bright clean copy and virtually unused. Hardcover. Ex library.  (24265)         £8.00

109.  Clackson, James. The Linguistic Relationship Between Armenian and Greek (Publications of the Philological Society). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1994. ISBN: 0631191976. x+272pp.. Paperback. V. G.  (24266)         £40.00

110.  GAMKRELIDZE, Thomas V.. Alphabetic Writing and the Old Georgian Script.  A typology and provenience of alphabetic writing systems. Tiblisi: Tiblisi University, 1989. ISBN: 551103115. 350pp..  Entire text in Georgian and in Russian, 10 pages of bibliography in Latin script (mainly English and German titles). Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Deals with the theoretical problems of the typology of script and the origin and development of the alphabetic system of writing. (24267)                £12.00

111.  MARTSINKYAVITSHUTE, Victoria. Lithuanian-English, English-Lithuanian Concise Dictionary. New York,: Hippocrene Books, 1998. Reprint. ISBN: 0781801516. 10cmx15cm., 382pp.. Paperback. Very Good.
Over 8,000 entries, comprehensive definitions, phonetics for both languages, parts of speech indicated. (24269)         £7.50

112.  RUSSELL, Paul. An Introduction to the Celtic Languages. (Longman Linguistics Library). Longman , 1995. First edition. ISBN: 058210081X. xvii+347pp.. Paperback. Near new.
General introduction to the Celtic languages, historical background looking at Celtic, Goidelic, Brittonic, detailed survey of one language from each group, consideration of linguistics features characteristic of Celtic such as spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order. (24270)      £30.00

113.  FREELAND, Alan. Discovering Portuguese. A BBC Television course in Portuguese for beginners. London: BBC Books, 1987. ISBN: 0563213450. 196pp..  (Book only). Paperback. Near new.  (24271)        £6.50

114.  BACCOUCHE, Belkacem, AZMI, Sanaa. Conversations in Modern Standard Arabic. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. ISBN: 0300032749
. 18cmx25cm., viii+422pp. Paperback. V. G.
Directed at students who have acquired basic skills and wish to expand their vocabulary and improve their speaking ability including lively conversation, narrative passages, numerous drills, glossaries and tables of grammatical rules. (24272)           £20.00

115.  (Bauer, Walter ) GINGRICH, F. Wilbur, DANKER, Frederick W.. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature.  A translation and adaptation of the fourth revised and augmented edition of Walter Bauer's Griechisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der übrigen urchristlichen Literatur. Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 1979. Second edition revised and augmented. ISBN: 0226039323. Quarto, xl+900pp..  Heavy item, please enquire regarding postal rates before ordering. Hardcover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
First edition, 1957, translated and adapted by William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich from 4th edtion of Bauer's lexicon, second edition 1979, revised and augmented by Gingrich and Danker from Bauer's 5th edition. (24273)  £30.00

116.  JUG-KRANJEC, Hermina. SLOVENŠCINA ZA TUJCE (Slovene for Foreigners). Ljubljana: 1989. Sixth edition. ISBN: 8672070089. 326pp., illus., map.  Text in Slovene German, English, Italian glossary. Paperback. V. G.
Slovene for foreigners in 12 lessons (24275)  £15.00

117.  KRUEGER, John R.. The Uralic and Altaic series: An analytical index, including a complete index to Keleti Szemle. 
 Uralic and Altaic series.  Volume 100. Bloomington: Indiana University , 1970. ISBN: 0877500002. 81pp..  A very nice, bright copy. Paperback. Near new.  (24276)        £25.00

118.  MOSCATI, Sabatino. The Semites in Ancient History. An inquiry into the settlement of the Beduin and their political establishment. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1959. First edition. 142pp., map, indices.  A very nice bright copy. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
I: The Semites. II: Mesopotamia. III: Syria. IV: Arabia. (24277)             £12.00

119.  Oates, Joan. Babylon. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988. Revised edition. ISBN: 0500273847. 216pp., 137 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.  Best edition. Paperback. V. G.
"Richly illustrated with photographs and plans, written with clarity and discernement."  Highly acclaimed account describing the rise of Babylon from Sargon of Agade to Hammurapi, his successors and the reigns of Nebuchadrezzar and Nabonidus. (24278)      £10.00

120.  CAPLICE, Richard with the collaboration of Daniel Snell. Introduction to Akkadian. Studia Pohl: Series Maior 9. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1988. Third revised edition. ISBN: 8876535667. viii+106pp., a good, clean, tight copy. Paperback. V. G.  (24279)                £12.00

121.  SODEN, Wolfram von trans. by Donald G. Schley. The Ancient Orient.  An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East. Michigan: Eerdmans, Gracewing, 1994. ISBN: 0852442521. xx+263pp., b/w in-text illus., bibliog., index map.  A very nice bright copy. Paperback. Near new.
"...the most famous Assyriologist of recent times brings together into a single picture the history, languages, and cultures of the ancient Semitic and Indo-European Near East. It embraces intellectual, artistic, economic, political and social life..." (24280)               £12.00

122.  AL-ANI, Salman H.. Arabic Phonology. The Hague: Mouton, 1970. Large p/b., 104pp.. Paperback. V. G.
A systematic study of the phonology of Contemporary Standard Arabic as used in Iraq.  (A study of the prounciation of Arabic in Iraq as distinct from the Arabic as it is spoken in other Arabic speaking countries.) (24281)            £20.00

123.  HAZAI, György. Kurze Einführung in das Studium der türkischen Sprache. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1978. 190pp..  Text in German. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Introduction to the Study of Turkic Languages. (24282)            £12.00

124.  LEHMANN, W. P. Proto-Indo-European Phonology. Austin : University of Texas Press,, 1955. First edition. ISBN: 0292733410. xv+129pp., bibliog., index, V.G. Hard Cover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
An attempt to reconstruct the earlier stages of the Proto Indo European sound system, the most complex problems have to do with laryngeal sounds. (24283) £12.00

125.  Marcus, David. A Manual of Akkadian. Lanham: University Press of America, 1978. ISBN: 0819106089. 182pp..  A very nice bright copy. Paperback. V. G.  (24284)      £20.00

126.  RIEMSCHNEIDER, Dr Kaspar K. Lehrbuch des Akkadischen. 5., unveränderte Auflage. Leipzig: VEB, 1988. Fifth edition. ISBN: 3324003644. 312pp.. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24285)    £35.00

127.  SEKHAR, Ch., GLAZOV, Iu. Ia. Iaz'ik Malaialam. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1961. 93pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A descriptive grammar of Malayalam.   Text in Russian. (24286)           £15.00

128.  AIHENVAL'D, A. Iu.  (EICHENWALD). Sovremenn'ii Ivrit. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1990. 147pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A  reference grammar of  Modern Hebrew.   Text in Russian. (24287)    £10.00

129.  ZAVADOVSKII, Iu N.. Mavritanskii Dialekt Arabskogo Iaz'ika (Hassaniia) Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 79pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Hassaniyya Arabic of Mauritania.   Text in Russian. (24288)     £12.00

130.  IUSUPOVA, Z. A. Suleimaniiskii Dialect Kurdskoga Iazyka. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1985. 143pp.. Wrappers. V G.
Reference grammar of the Kurdish dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq.  Text in Russian. (24289)                £18.00

131.  KURDOEV, K. K. Kurdskii Iazyk. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: 1961. 79pp.,  small nick to spine tail else very good. Wrappers. V G.
Reference grammar of the Kurdish. Text in Russian. (24290)   £10.00

132.  MISHKUROV, E. N..  Alzhirskii Dialekt Arabskogo Iaz'ika. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1982. 131pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Algerian Arabic.  Text in Russian. (24291)       £9.00

133.  MOSKALEV, A. A..  Iaz'ik Duan'skih Iao (Iaz'ik Nu) Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1978. 131pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar Duan Yao (Nu).  Text in Russian. (24292)              £12.00

134.  FIHMAN, B.S.. Iaz'ik Igbo. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1975. 67pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Igbo.  Text in Russian. (24293)            £9.00

135.  KRUPA, V.. Gavaiskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1979. 75pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Hawaiian.  Text in Russian. (24294)   £9.00

136.  D'IACHKOV, M. V.., LEONT'EV, A. A.,  TORSUEVA, E. I.. Iaz'ik Tok-Pisin (Neomelanesiiskii) Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 75pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.

A reference grammar of  New Guinea Pidgin (Neo Melanesian, Tok-Pisin).  Text in Russian. (24295)             £18.00

137.  PUZITSKII, Ye. V.. Kachinskii Iaz'ik.  (Iaz'ik Chzhingpho) Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1968. 110pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of the Kachin (or Jinghpaw/Chingpaw) language of Myanmar (Burma).  Text in Russian. (24296)         £15.00

138.  TSERETELI, K. G..  Siriiskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1979. 159pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Syriac.  Text in Russian. (24297)        £16.00

139.  GUZEV, V. G.. Staroosmanskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1979. 95pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Old Osmanli Turkish.  Text in Russian. (24298)              £16.00

140.  TSERETELI, K. G..  Sovremenn'ii Assiriiskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1964. 102pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Syriac.  Text in Russian. (24299)        £10.00

141.  TOPOROVA, I. N..  Iaz'ik Lingala. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1973. 99pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Lingala (close to Lusengo and Bangala) spoken in the Central African Republic and Congo.  Text in Russian. (24300)  £10.00

142.  KOROLEV, N.I.  Nevarskii Iaz'ik Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1989. ISBN: 5020164178. 131pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Newari, spoken in Nepal.  Text in Russian. (24301)        £12.00

143.  ZAVADOVSKII, Yu. N., SMAGINA, Ye. B..  Nubiiskii Iaz'ik. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1986. 91pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A descriptive grammar of Nubian. (24302)   £12.00

144.  KLIMOV, G. A., EDEL'MAN, D. I..   EDELMAN. Iaz'ik Burushaski. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1970. 114pp., tables. Faint stain to uper cover else a very good copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A descriptive grammar of Burushaski - language isolate spoken in Hunza and surrounding areas. (24303)   £20.00

145.  EDEL'MAN, D. I..   EDELMAN. Dardskie Iaz'iki iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1965. 202pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.  Small tear to spine tail else excellent. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of the Dardic (Indo-Iranian) languages (24304)    £20.00

146.  MELIKISHVILI, G. A..  Urartskii Iaz'ik. Moscow: Nauka, 1964. 73pp.. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Urartian (also known as Vannic or Chaldean).  Text in Russian. (24305)   £20.00

147.  STARININ, B. P.. Efiopskii Iaz'ik. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1967. 119pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A descriptive grammar of Ethiopic.  Text in Russian. (24306)   £12.00

148.  DIMSHITS, Z. M. Iaz'ik Urdu. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1962 . 143pp.. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Urdu.  Text in Russian. (24307)              £10.00

149.  KLIMOV, G. A.. Kavkazskie iaz'iki.  (The languages of the Caucasus). Moscow: Nauk, 1965. 112pp..  Text in Russian. Wrappers. V. G.
"Of the Kartvelian language family, only Georgian, the Georgian, the official language of Georgia, has an ancient literary tradition. Georgian dates to the 5th century AD. The Georgian written form is also used by speakers of the other languages, which are nonliterate. Some scholars consider Mingrelian and Laz to be dialects of a single language rather than independent languages"

 (24308) £15.00

150.  YELIZARENKOVA, T. Ia., TOPOROV, V. N..  Iaz'ik Pali. iaz'iki Narodov Azii i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1965. 246pp., 34 tables (some folding).  Spine tail torn else excellent condition. Wrappers. V. G.
A descriptive grammar of Pali.  Text in Russian. (24309)           £8.00

151.  LIPIN, L. A.. Akkadskii Iaz'ik iaz'iki Narodov Azii i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1964. 155pp., tables.  Wrappers. V. G.
A descriptive grammar of Akkadian.  Text in Russian. (24310)                £9.00

152.  TITOV, Ye. G.. Sovremenn’ii Amharskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Narodov Azii i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow, 1961. 157pp., colour from colver rubbed else very good. Wrappers. V. G.
Amharic reference grammar in Russian (24311)          £8.00

153.  TENISHEV, E. R.. & TODAYEVA, B. H.. Iazyk Zhelt’ih Uigurov. Iazyki Narodov Azii i Afriki. Ed. T. P. Serdyuchenko. Moscow. 83pp., bibliography. Wrappers. V. G.
Uigur reference grammar in Russian (24312)                £10.00

154.  ARAKIN, V. d.. Samoanskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1973. 86pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Samoan.  Text in Russian. (24314)     £12.00

155.  ARAKIN, V. D.. Taitianskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 78pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Tahitian.  Text in Russian. (24315)     £10.00

156.  DOROFEYEVA, L. N..  Iaz'ik Farsi-Kabuli. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1960. 83pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of the Farsi of Kabul in Russian. (24316)               £15.00

157.  KRUS, M., SHKARBAN, L I. Tagal'skii Iaz'ik. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1966. 102pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Tagalog in Russian. (24317)                £9.00

158.  EFIMOV, V. A..  Iaz'ik Afganskih Hazara. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1965. 97pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of the language of the Afghan Hazars (Hazaragi) in Russian. (24318)            £20.00

159.  IVANOV, V. V.  Hettskii iaz'ik. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1963. Wrappers, 221pp.. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Hittite in Russian. (24319)       £18.00

160.  KISELEVA, L. N..  Iaz'ik Dari Afganistana iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1985. 125pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Dari (the Farsi spoken in Afghanistan) in Russian. (24320)           £20.00

161.  PAHALINA, T. N..  Pamirskie Iaz'iki. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1969. 163pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of languages of the Pamirs in Russian. (24321)     £20.00

162.  RUBINCHIK, Yu. A.. Sovremenn'ii Persidskii Iaz'ik. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1960. 139pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Modern Persian in Russian (24322)    £12.00

163.  SHARBATOV, G. sh. Sovremenn’ii Arabskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Narodov Azii i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1961. 111pp..  Spine a little torn else very good. Wrappers. V. G.
Modern Arabic reference grammar in Russian (24323)              £8.00

164.  ZAVADOVSKII, Iu N. Berberskii Iaz'iki. Iaz'iki Narodov Azii i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1967. 79pp..  Spine a little torn else very good. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Berber in Russian. (24324)      £20.00

165.  VIL'SKER, L. H.. Samaritianskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Narodov Azii i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1974. 95pp..  Spine a little torn else very good. Wrappers. V. G.
Modern Arabic reference grammar in Russian (24325)              £12.00

166.  ELANSKAIA, A. I..  Koptskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Narodov Azii i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1964. 125pp..  A very good, bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
Coptic reference grammar in Russian (24326)              £12.00

167.  KRUS, M., SHKARBAN, L I. Minangkabau Iaz'ik. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1987. 79pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Minangkabau, a language of Sumatra, in Russian. (24327)         £20.00

168.  KATENINA, T. E.. . Iaz'ik Marathi. iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1963. 111pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Marathi  (spoken in Maharashtra and neighbouring states) in Russian. (24328)      £12.00

169.  ANDRONOV, M. S..  Dravidiiskie Iaz'iki iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1965. 122pp., tables.  A very nice bright copy.   Wrappers. V. G.
The Dravidian Languages. Text in Russian. (24329)   £18.00

170.  D'IACHKOV, M. V.., . Iaz'ik Krio Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 59pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Krio (a Creole spoken in Sierra Leone).  Text in Russian. (24330)                £18.00

171.  MOREV, L. N..  Shanskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1983. 133pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Shan, a Tai language spoken in Myanmar (Burma).  Text in Russian. (24331)        £16.00

172.  TOKARSKAIA, V. P..  Iaz'ik Mandinke (Mandigo) Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1964. 50pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Maninkakan (Maninka-Western, Maninga, Malinka, Malinke, Western Malinke) of Senegal, Gambia and Mali. Text in Russian. (24332)    £16.00

173.  LEONT'EV, A. A.,  . Papuasskie Iaz'iki. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1974. 115pp., tables, map.  An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of  Papuan languages also sometimes known as Trans–New Guinea phylum. Text in Russian. (24333)  £18.00

174.  MOREV, L. N..  Iaz'ik L'i. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1978. 99pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Thai Lü, a Tai language spoken in Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, China.  Text in Russian. (24334)                £12.00

175.  KOROTKOV, N. N., Rozhdestvenskii, Yu V., SERDYUCHENKO, G. P., SOLNTSEV, V. M..  Kitaiskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1961. 134pp.. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Chinese.  Text in Russian. (24335)        £12.00

176.  KRUPA, V.. Polinesiiskie Iaz'iki Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1975. 139pp., tables. An excellent bright copy. Wrappers. V. G.
A reference grammar of Polynesian languages.  Text in Russian. (24336)              £12.00

177.  NIKIFOROVA, L. A.. Iaz'ik Volof. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 95pp. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Wolof, a language of Senegal.  Text in Russian. (24337)  £15.00

178.  SOLNTSEV, V. M., LEKOMTSEV, Yu K., MHITARIAN, T. T., GLEBOVA, I. I.. V'etnamskii Iaz'ik. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1960. 99pp.. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Vietnamese.  Text in Russian. (24338) £9.00

179.  ISAYEV, M. I.. Iaz'ik Esperanto. Iaz'iki Zarubezhnogo Vostoka i Afriki.  Pod redaktsiei Prof. T. P. Serdiuchenko. Moscow: Nauka, 1981. 85pp.. Wrappers. V. G.
Reference grammar of Esperanto.  Text in Russian. (24339)    £12.00

180.  WITTEK, P.. Turkish Reader. (With) Vocabulary to the Turkish Reader. London: Lund Humphries, 1945. First edition. Blue cloth, xiii+134pp..   A very nice copy.  (Vocabulary: same publication details, matching card covers, 27pp..  Corners curling a little, fading to edges, clean copy). Hardback. V. G.
Part I: Atatürk's Turkey (with some exerpts from his own writings), Part  II: Short examples from proverbs, traditional stories, poetry and a piece by Yakup Kadri's "A Memory from the Balkan War", Part III: Newspapers, Part IV: further reading from literature. (24340)                £18.00

181.  FORBES, Duncan. Arabic Reading Lessons, consisting of easy extracts from the best authors, together with A Vocabulary of all the words occuring in the text; also some explanatory annotations, etc.. London: Crosby Lockwood, c. 1855 (n.d.). First edition. Orig. brown buckram, black chalk endpapers, ruled and lettered in blind, viii+76+53+103pp..  Some mottling to cloth, and a little fraying to spine ends, internally barely used.   Faint stamp of a Bombay bookseller to f.e.p. verso.  A very nice copy of this original edition. Hard Cover. V. G.  (24341)  £40.00

182.  (PRISMA). A Modern English-Swedish Dictionary.  Modern Svensk Engelsk Ordbok.  Storformat. Tredje omarbetade upplagen. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Prisma, , 1986. Third Revised and Enlarged Edition. 542pp.,  2 columns. Hardback. V. G.
c. 52,000 headwords. (24342)          £12.00

183.  TENISHEV, E. R.. Russko-Tuvinskii Slovar'. (Tuvin into Russian dictionary). Moscow Moskva: Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia., 1968. 646pp., 2 columns, 22,000 words.  Cyrillic alphabet used. Hardback. V. G.
Tuva Turkish is the language that is the nearest to the Ancient Turkish among the Turkish dialects.  Also known as Tuvinian (24343)                £60.00

184.  HUDSON-WILLIAMS, T.. A Short Grammar of Old Persian with a reader accompanied by a word-for-word translation, notes, and vocabulary. Cardiff: University of Wales, 1963. Reprint. 51pp..  Slight darkening to dust-wrapper else a very nice copy. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24345)              £45.00

185.  WOODS, Eliz.  Eighteenth century copybook. Copybook of Eliz. Wood.  Entitled: The I Book of the Fire and of the Alter. 1758.  A very unsual item bound in full vellum, numbering about 90 pages, 6"x8".  A young woman's copybook written in fairly large letters with a broad-nibbed pen.  Spine chipped at spine both head and tail, one or two leaves loose but only the first page appears to be missing, and the ink has eaten into the paper in parts but with no loss of text.  A Sarah Cotten (in a younger hand) has added her name to the pastedown, one or two pencil annotations and is probably responsible for the note "very rare" written on the upper board. Hardback. G++.
".......as the sun and his raiment became white as the Light is this he, whom God anointed with the oil of gladness above his Fellows whose garments smell of Myrrh, Aloes and Cassia and cast such ascent, that the Daughter of Tyre came with a Gift, and the Rich among the people, and entreated his favour ...". From the middle of the copy book c.f. Psalm 45

 (24346) £350.00

186.  Gregor, Douglas Bartlett. Celtic: A comparative study of the six Celtic languages, Irish, Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, Breton seen against the background of their history, literature, and destiny. Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1980. First edition. ISBN: 0900891564. vii+398pp., maps.  Light wear but a good, clean copy. Paperback. V. G.
Three of Gregor's obituaries  (April 1995) loosely enclosed. (24347)        £20.00

187.  Drews, Robert. The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East. Princeton: Univ Press, 1988. First edition. ISBN: 069103592X. xviii+257pp..  Hardcover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24348)    £12.00

188.  RUNCIMAN, Steven. The Eastern Schism. A study of the papacy and the Eastern churches during the XIth and XIIth centuries. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971. Reprint. vii+189pp..  Small tear to dust-wrapper else in excellent condition. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24349)  £10.00

189.  STENDER-PETERSEN, Ad (Ed.). Anthology of Old Russian Literature. Edited in collaboration with Stefan Congrat-Butlar. New York and London: Columbia, 1962. Reprint. xxiii+542pp..  Ex library, usual marks to endpapers but a good, clean tight copy. Hardback. V. G.  (24350)  £9.00

190.  LEWIS, G. L. Turkish Teach Yourself Books. London: EUP, 1963
. Reprint. x+175pp.. Small tear to dust-wrapper. V.G. in torn dust-wrapper.
Standard type grammar with pronunciation and glossaries, key and index of suffixes (24351)        £12.00

191.  AQUILINA, Joseph. Teach Yourself Maltese. London: English University Press, 1965. First edition. 240pp., usual blue and yellow covers.  A lovely bright copy seemingly unused. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24352)      £15.00

192.  AQUILINA, Joseph. Teach Yourself Maltese. London: English University Press, 1970. Reprint. 240pp., usual blue and yellow covers.  A very nice bright copy. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24353) £12.00

193.  AQUILINA, Joseph. Teach Yourself Maltese. London: English University Press, 1965. First edition. 240pp., usual blue and yellow covers.  Price-lipped dust-wrapper a little chipped at top edge, just a tad dusty but internally very good, clean and tight. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24354)              £9.00

194.  BARON, Kathleen. Teach Yourself Latin. A Book of Self-Instruction in Latin, based on the work by W. A. Edward, completely revised. London: English Universities Press , 1941. Reprint. 252pp. .  In good condition, but dust-wrapper a little grubby, pages foxed due to paper quality. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24355)  £9.00

195.  Harrison, R.K. Hebrew. London: E.U.P., 1955. First edition. ISBN: 0340057947. 216pp., in usual yellow and blue.  Dust-wrapper chipped at spine ends and corners, a good, clean copy. Hard Cover. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24356)       £8.00

196.  LINDEMAN, Frederick Otto. Introduction to the 'Laryngeal Theory' The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture. Oslo: 1987. New edition. ISBN: 8200026280. 155pp., text in English. Wrappers. V. G.
Revised version of  the author's "Einführung in die Laryngaltheorie", Berlin 1970. (24357)               £16.00

197.  Huld, Martin E. Basic Albanian Etymologies. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1984. ISBN: 0893571350. x+213pp., 3 maps, 19 tables. Paperback. V. G.
A study of the roots of the historical features of the Albanian language: "whatever designation the inherited Indo-European element in Albanian may receive, it cannot be characterised as a Thraco-Illyrian hybrid." (24358)     £45.00

198.  BLAND, William B.. A Short Guide to Albania. Ilford: The Albanian Society, (1988). First edition. 55pp., b/w illustrated. Paperback. V. G.
Small but very comprehensive.  Part One: About Albania (history, State, climate, culture etc.) . Part Two: Visiting Albania. Part Three: Touring Albania.  Even if dated, a wealth of material which can still be used. (24359)        £20.00

199.  Gleeson, Jim. Writing Hiragana: An Introductory Japanese Language Workbook. Boston, Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2004. Revised edition. ISBN: 0804836205. Quarto, 80pp..   Paperback. Boston.
Designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the 46-character hiragana syllabary. (24360) £7.00

200.  KADARÉ, Ismaïl. Le Dossier H. Roman.  Traduit de l'albanias par Jusuf Vrioni. Paris: Fayard, 1989. 213pp..  Paperback. V. G.
Novel by Kadare translated into French. (24361)        £5.00

201.  PUTO, Arben. From the Annals of British Diplomacy. (The anti-Albanian plans of Great Britian during the Second World War according to Foreign Office Documents of 1939-1944). Tirana: 8 Nentori, 1981. 231pp..  Crease to upper cover, 12cmx16cm. Paperback. V. G.  (24362)       £12.00

202.  Emerson, June. Albania.  The Search for the Eagle's Song. Illustrated by Wendy Winfield. U.K.: Brewin Books, 1990. First edition. ISBN: 094773161X. 96pp., b/w illustrated. Paperback. V. G.  (24363)   £12.00

203.  Emerson, June. The Music of Albania. Illustrated by Wendy Winfield. U.K.: Emerson Edition, 1994. First edition. ISBN: 0950620939. 78pp., b/w illustrated. Paperback. V. G.  (24364)                £12.00

204.  HAIM, S.. Hippocrene Standard Persian-English Dictionary. Introduction translated by Iraj Anvar. New York: Hippocrene Books, , 2002. Reprint. ISBN: 0781800552. Large 8vo., 2 columns, more than 30,000 words and idioms in 22,500 entries with hints on pronunciation and transliteration.   Paperback. New.  (24365)  £12.00

205.  Davis, Norman. Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer Revised throughout by Norman Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. Ninth edition. 129pp..  Owner's insc.and inoffensive selloptape mark to f.e.p., . A nice, bright, clean  hardback copy.  Hardback. V. G.  (24366)                £5.00

206.  Medushevsky, A and Zyatkovska, R. Ukrainian Grammar. Kiev: State Textbook Publishing House, 1963. First edition. 212pp.. Owner's insc.and inoffensive selloptape mark to f.e.p., . A nice, bright, clean  copy.  Hardback. V. G.  (24367)             £12.00

207.  POHLEBKIN, V. V..  Natsional'n'ie kuhni nashix narodov. (The National Cuisine of our Peoples). Moscow Moskva: 1981. 303pp..  Text in Russian. Hardback. V. G.
A selection of recipes from all the Russias arranged by republic. (24368)               £12.00

208.  NINIOWS'KYI, W..  Ukrainian-English and English-Ukrainian Dictionary. Edmonton: Ukrainian Book Store, 1990. Second Revised Edition. ISBN: 0884313190. xlii+679pp., two columns. c. 23,000 words. Paperback. As New.  (24369)         £25.00

209.  ALEJANDRO, Rufino. Everyday Tagalog  Conversational Pilipino. With 21 Introductory Lessons in Tagalog Grammar (Balarila).  Conversations, Vocabulary, Exercises, Letters and Readings. Manila: Philippin Book Company, 1968. Revised edition. 165pp., paper yellowing else a good, clean, tight copy. Wrappers. V. G.  (24370)            £8.00

210.  GUEST, Rhuvon. Life and Works of Ibn Er Rûmî.  'Ali ibn 'Abbâs, Abû el Hasan, A Baghdad Poet of the 9th Century of the Christian Era. London: Luzac, 1944. 143pp., b/w plates, index.  Spine ends torn, a little dog-earing to all corners but a good, clean, tight copy. Wrappers. G+.  (24371)      £25.00

211.  WEINGREEN, J.. A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew. Oxford: Clarendon, 1972. Second edition. xii+316pp..  A very nice, bright, clean copy seemingly unused. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Beter edition. (24372)         £20.00

212.  DE BRAY, R. G. A.. Guide to the Slavonic Languages. London: Dent, 1951. First edition. xxvi+797pp.. Hardback. V. G.
The classic reference work on the Slavonic languages. With an introduction and languages arranged in sections: Old Slavonic, Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbocroatian, Slovenian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Lusatian. (24373)              £45.00

213.  MORAN, A. Vahid. Turkish - English Dictionary.  Türkçe - inglizce Sözlük. Istanbul: Mili Egitim Basimevi, 1971. Reprint. xv+1367pp., 2 columns.  Paper yellowing, despite production quality a good, clean, tight book. Hardback. V. G.  (24374)        £18.00

214.  DRIZARI, Nelo. Albanian-English and English-Albanian Dictionary. With a Supplement of New words. New York: Ungar, 1979. Second Enlarged edition. Small 8vo., vi+320pp.. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24375)     £20.00

215.  Polish. Hippocrene Children's Illustrated Polish Dictionary: English-Polish/Polish-English. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1999. First edition. ISBN: 0781808901. Quarto, 94p., 500 entries each illustrated in colour throughout. Hardback. New.
Designed for children between 5 - 10 years of age. (24376)       £20.00

216.  HARDIE, D. W. F.. A Handbook of Modern Breton (Amorican). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1948. First edition. Orig. green cloth, small 8vo., spine sunned, spine ends just a ittle bruised but a good, tight, clean copy. Hardback. V. G.
"The Introduction on the historical background ... is both illuminating and scholarly  ..The description of the Dialects, Orthography and Phonology is short but competent  .. a  mine of information coherently and intelligibly presented." M. Richards. (24377)          £20.00

217.  HRABOVSKY, Leonid. Ukrainian Practical Dictionary.  Ukrainian-English, English-Ukrainian. Revised edition with restaurant terms. New York: Hippocrene, 2005. Reprint. ISBN: 0781803063. 448pp.. Shop damaged:crease to upper cover else as new. Paperback. V. G.
With over 10,000 up-to-date entries and phonetic transliteration of both Ukraiian and English words, basic pronunciation guide, business and menu terms. (24378)  £8.00

218.  Haim, S. Dictionary English-Persian and Persian-English. New Dehli: Star Publications / Languages of the World Publica, 2000. Reprint. ISBN: 8176500313. Red cloth, 1444pp., 2 columns. Faint shop soiling to front endpapers else as new. Hardback. New.  (24379)                £20.00

219.  LORD, Albert Bates. Beginning Bulgarian. Mouton & Co., ‘S-Gravenhage, 1965. Reprint. Light blue limp cloth, gilt, 165pp..  Faint tape marks to endpapers else  a good, clean copy. Hardback. V.G.  (24380)         £10.00

220.  LORD, Albert Bates. Beginning Bulgarian. Mouton & Co., ‘S-Gravenhage, 1965. Reprint. Light blue limp cloth, gilt, 165pp..  Owner's insc. to endpaper else a very nice bright copy. Hardback. V.G.
Designed to introduce students as rapidly as possible to the fundamentals of Bulgarian grammar with the primary goal of teaching students to read the literature as well as being able, early on, to construct whole sentences.  Two complete stories are included in the book. (24381)  £10.00

221.  MARDIN, Yusuf. Colloquial Turkish. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976. Revised edition. ISBN: 0710084153. x+291pp., crease to spine and gutter else very good. Paperback. G+.  (24382)          £4.00

222.  TOVAR, Antonio. The Ancient Languages of Spain and Portugal. New York: Vanni, 1961. First edition. xi+138pp.. Hardback. V. G.  (24383)  £25.00

223.  COX, Claude E.. Hexaplaric Materials preserved in the Armenian Version. Septuagint and Cognate Studies 21. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1986. ISBN: 1555400299. xv+236pp . Paperback. As New.
Hexaplaric source material presented as it is found in more than 100 Armenian MSS.  Of particular interest to students of OT critical texts, Origen and the Armenian biblical tradition. (24384)    £20.00

224.  CHADWICK,  H. Munro. The Nationalities of Europe and the Growth of National Ideologies. Cambridge: University Press, 1966. Reprint. viii+210pp., map. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.
Nationality and Language, Languages of Europe, Nation and Kingdom, Feeling of Kinship, Calims to Domination, Yesterday and Tomorrow.  With linguistic map of Europe. (24385)    £12.00

225.  Christian Brothers. New Irish Grammar. Dublin: Fallon, 1993. Revised edition. 152pp.. Near new. Wrappers. V. G.
Single compact grammar giving rules of Accidence and Syntax, in clear and concise terms presented in English.  Standard grammar and spelling used. (24386)         £12.00

226.  SIOCHFHRADHA, M. O.. Learner's Irish-English Dictionary. Dublin: Talbot Press, n.d. (early 1970s). New Edition. 131pp..  Light tape marks to endpapers, fore-edges starting to yellow else very good. Hardback. V.G. in V.G. dust-wrapper.  (24387)               £5.00

227.  PERRY, Edward Delavan. A Sanskrit Primer. New York & London: Columbia, 1965. Reprint. Green cloth, xii + 230pp..  Endpapers just a little dusty else very good. Hardback. V. G.  (24388)        £7.50

228.  RAZI, F. D.. The Modern Persian Dictionary (Persian - Urdu - English). New Dehli: Kitab Bhavan, 1994. Fourth edition. ISBN: 8171510744. Red cloth, c. 300pp.. Hardback. New.  (24389)   £7.50

229.  Coates, Tim (Ed.). War 1914: Punishing the Serbs. (Uncovered Editions). Stationery Office Books (TSO), 1999. ISBN: 0117024104. 223pp.. Paperback. New.
Historic official papers and letters on Serbia and the Balkans previously unpublished in popular form.  Includes letters by Count Beckendorff, Poincare, Isvolsky, Sir George Buchanan, Paleologue, Yovanovich and manyothers. (24390) £4.50

230.  STALLAERTS, Robert, LAURENS, Jeanne. Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Croatia. European Historical Dictionaries, No. 9. Lanham and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995. First edition. ISBN: 0810829991. xlii+341pp.. Hardcover. New.  (24391)                £25.00

231.  PEARSON, Raymond. National Minorities in Eastern Europe 1848 - 1945. London: Macmillan, 1983. ISBN: 0333288890. x+249pp.. Paperback. As New.  (24392)        £8.00

232.  HILLIER, Sir Walter. The Chinese Language and How to Learn It.  Volume II. Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore, Yokohama, Hankow: Kelly & Walsh. Third edition, revised. 250+107pp..   A lttle dusty at fore-edges, cloth rubbed at edges, cloth a tad dull but overall very good, clean and tight.  this volume is the reader, manual (vol I) not present. Hardback. V. G.
Part I: (Twelve stories from the Liao Chai in English), Part II: Notes, Part III: List of Characters, Part IV: Chinese Text. (24393)                £18.00

233.  KOVALEV, N. I.. Russkaia kulinaria.  (Russian Cookbook). Moscow: Ekonomika, 1981. Second Revised Edition. Decorated boards, 223pp., b/w and colour illustrated.  Text in Russian. Hardback. V. G.  (24394)     £10.00

234.  POUGNARD, G.. Le parler "Franco-Provençal" d'Aiript Commune de Romans, Canton de Saint-Maixent, Deux-Sèvres. La Rochelle: Chez l'Auteur, 1952. First edition. 262pp., fldg. map.  Wrappers and spine worn at ends, small tear to upper wrapper, paper yellowing but clean, tight.  Author's presentation copy. Wrappers. G+.
Contribution a l'étude des dialectes Poitevins. (24395)                £25.00