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Proverbi, Tradizioni Ed Annedoti Delle Valli Ladine Orientali Con Versione Italiana
by Alton, Giovanni
Innsbruck: Stemperia e Liberia Accademica Wagner, 1881. Soft cover. Good. 8vo. "Proverbs, Traditions And Anecdotes Of The Eastern Ladin Valleys With Italian Version." Orig. wrappers, 146pp, (2)ads. Pages 131-142 are LACKING. Bookplate of United Nations Col. De Guinzbourg, a noted collector of proverbs and linguistics. Light foxing, a small green stamp on title page. Wrappers soiled, with tape on upper spine. Spine cracked, rear cover detached but o/w a good copy.
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£74.49
Tell Me Fi True. A Collection of Jamaican Proverbs. With Translations
by Huie, Bari
Scarborough: Bargergol Corporation, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 5.5" x 8.5" First Printing. 32 p.p. Rubbing and scuffing to covers, edges. Previous owner note in pen on front and rear inner covers. Otherwise in very good condition.
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£41.71
Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Texts from Central Asia
by Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim [Translator]
San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo (medium). xx, 405 p.p. Light rubbing to jacket edges Boards clean, very little rubbing. Small bruising to spine ends. Otherwise in very good condition and extensive collection of parables, hymns, prayers from Centrail Asia from Iranian and Turkish texts.
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£35.75
Sprüchwörterbuch in Sechs Sprachen, Deutsch, Englische, Latein, Italienisch, Französisch und Ungerisch
by Von Gaal Georg
Wien: Friedrich Volke, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary leather backed boards, inscribed "from the author". 324pp, 1808 entries, a few marginal notes in pencil. Scarce. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; proverbs; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 045935.
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£163.28
Dictionnaire Etymologique, Historique et Anecdotique des Proverbes et des locutions proverbiales de la langue Francaise
by Quitard, P.M
Paris: P. Bertrand, Librairie-Editeur, 1842. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Half-bound brown morocco over marbled boards, rebacked with original spine laid-down, xv, 701p., plus eratta. Bookplate of the late Col. De Guinzbourg of the United Nations, a known collector of proverbs, quotes, and adages. Signed by the publisher on verso of half-title. Pages lightly foxed with trimmed edges [not affecting text], early ownership signature on title page; light wear to boards and spine but o/w a...
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£89.38
Thesaurus Documentorum Moralium...Schat Van Zedespreuken En Lessen...Tressor De Sentences et De Maximes Morales puisees dans differens auteurs tant facres que profanes, & traduites du latin en vers Francois
by T'Serstevens, Franciscum
Bruxellis: Franciscum T'Serstevens, 1755. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Two Vols. Full calf. Raised bands, with gilt floral motifs on spine. Vol I: [16] 348 p.p. (A-L); Vol II: 349-676 p.p., (M-Z) plus [12] p.p. index and table. Lacking front fly-leaf in Vol. I. Bookplate of Lt. Colonel V.S.M. de Guinzbourg in both books on front pastedown endpapers. Wear to joints. Corners bumped, worn and frayed at tips. Light rubbing, scuffs to boards and spine ends. Sporadic foxing. Small circular dent and...
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£268.16
Paroemiographi Graeci Quorum Pars Nunc Primum Ex Codicibus Manuscriptis Vulgatur
by Gaisford, Thomas (editor)
Oxonii: E Typographeo Academico, 1836. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Text in Greek and Latin. Part 1 only. Full brown cloth. Professionally rebacked, original spine laid down, new printed paper spine label. xxiv, 432 pp. Spine faded, some rubbing to cloth. Neat ink marginalia throughout.
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£148.98
Apophthegmata Ex Probatis Graece Latinaeque Linguae Scriptoribus
by Lycosthenes, Conrad
Coloniae: Lazari Zetzneri, 1603. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. With Parabolarum Sive Similitudinum. Coloniae: Lazari Zetzneri, 1603. With seperate title-page and pagination. Modern black wraps over boards. Title on paper spine label. Bookplate of former United Nations staff interpreter Lt. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg on front pastedown. Woodcut vignette and early ownership signature on title-page. Book I: [16] 844 p.p.; Book II: [16] 143 p.p., [5 p.p. index]. Conrad Lycosthenese [1518-1561] was...
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£446.92
Libros Humildes: Dos Refraneros Del Año 1541
by Pérez, Juan B. Sánchez (compiler)
Madrid: Pérez, Juan B. Sánchez, 1944. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo (royal). Limited edition of 100 copies. 168, [9] pp.The book contains sayings from the year 1541, in Spanish. Printed by J. Cosano. Bookplate of Lt. Col. Victor De Guinzbourg [1906 - 1976] , an American military attaché to the United Nations who spoke around 10 languages and liked to collect proverbs. Some pages uncut. Pages lightly browned. Very light rubbing to edges. One page torn slightly at fore-edge. Otherwise book in very good...
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£59.59
Le Sentenze Di Publilio Siro Volgarizzate
by Canal, Pietro
Padova: Stabilimento Tip, 1871. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Orig. wrappers, 58pp. Wrappers disbound, with some unopened pages. From the library of United Nations Col. De Guinzbourg, a noted collector of proverbs. Embossed ex-library stamp on upper front cover, but still a very good copy. A collection of the moral maxims of Publius Syrus.
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£50.65
Phaedri Fabulae, et Publii Syri Sentiae
by Phaedrus, Gaius Julius; Syrus Publilius
Paris: Ex Typographia Regia, 1729. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. Red Morocco binding decoratively tooled with gilt. A.E.G. with sewn silk bookmark [4] 86 p.p. Includes engraved frontispiece. Separate half-title for Syrus [his work starts on p. 75] continuous pagination. From the library of [Victor] Leon Rattier [1824-1902], his red and gilt seal stamped on verso of front free endpaper. Rattier was made Chevalier in 1861, upon receiving the Legion d'honneur, the highest award for military and or...
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£595.90
Gold-Foil, Hammered From Popular Proverbs
by Titcomb, Timothy
London and Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. brown publisher's cloth, beveled edges. A.E.G. 319 pp. Chafed to extremities. Foxing to front matter. Very good+.
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£38.73
A Dictionary of The Proverbs in England In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. A Collection of the Proverbs Found in English Literature and The Dictionaries of The Period
by Tilley, Morris Palmer
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo (imperial). Full maroon cloth, gold lettering. xiii, 854 pp. Fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, a few tears to edges, some light staining to spine. The great English authors of the period 1500-1700 made copious use of proverbs, native and imported, by direct quotation and by allusion, and their full meaning cannot be readily grasped without recognition of the proverbial phrases that they had in mind. The...
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£297.95
A Fashionable Caricature or the Proverbs of Our Ancestors, Prophetically Descriptive of the Most Distinguished Personages in the Present Age of the Court, the Senate, the Army, the Navy, the Bar, the City, and the Theatres
by Thiselton, William Matthew
[London]: Printed for W. Thiselton, Circulating Library 37, 1792. Hardcover. Very Good. 18mo. [Date at end of 'Advertisement', second leaf after title-page, Feb. 5, 1792.] Mottled brown calf with quarterbound in recently rebacked tan calf. Black leather spine-label. Marbled brown endpapers. Frontispiece, [62] unnumbered pages. 18mo Bound in 6s. Two bookplates of Lt. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg on recto and verso of front free endpaper. Rubbing and chafing to boards, edges. Tips in green. Corners...
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£506.52
Dictionary of American Proverbs
by Kin, David (editor)
New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Unbound signatures. [2], 290 pp. A few small stains to verso of last page. Fine overall.
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£15.49
Adagiorum Chiliades Des Erasmi Roterodami quatuor cvm dimidia, ex postrema avtoris recognitione. In hac aeditione, prioribus duobus Indicibus subiunctus est tertius nouus, quo cuncta in hoc opere sparsim tractata, lectori ob oculos quam clarissime sunt posita
by ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM:
Basilae [Colophon]: Basileae per Hieronymvm Frobenivm, et Nicolaum Episcopium, Mense Martio, Anno M.D. XLVI. 1546. Large, thick follio, 335 x 218 mms., pp. [xliv], 1071 [1072 colophon], marginal annotation on recto of aa2, contemporary tawed pigskin, with a fleur-de-lys in centre panel, with binding date of 1549 just visible in central panel, the date is also just visible in a tiny trapezoid 42 mms. from the top front cover near the spine, a border in blind of what appears to be images of juveniles,...
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£5,500.00
1200 Russian Proverbs
by Langnas, Isaac A
New York: Philisophical Library, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 91 p.p. Paper Boards. Scratching to corners and ends of dust-jacket. Small tears to corners of dust-jacket as well. Bumping to extremities of boards. Inscription to rear endpaper. Bookplate by C.B. Farrar to front endpaper. Otherwise clean, a fine copy of book.
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£14.90
Doctrinal de Juan del Pueblo
by Sacristan, Fermin
Madrid: Viuda E Hijos de Murillo, 1907. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 1907-1911. Tall 8vo. Quarter bound in calf with tan buckram boards. Title in gilt on spine, raised bands. Two volumes in one. Vol. 1: xv, 17-370 p.p.; Vol. 2: 388 p.p., incl. index. Second volume dated 1911.Tight boards. Some rubbing and bumped edges, with stain on front and rear board. Pages yellowing. Otherwise in near fine condition. A scarce copy of multilingual proverbs and sayings in literature on adversity, love, goodness, and...
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£357.54
Lent Lilies: A Garden of Quiet for Forty Days
by Byron, May (arranged by)
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Hardcover. Very Good. 5" x 6.5" [n.d., ca. 1910?]. Unpaginated, [44 p.p.] Tan paper boards with gilt and purple lettering and illustrations. Darkening to edges of boards and spine, bumping to spine ends, a few spots to rear board. Illustrated endpapers. Forty days worth of reflections on topics such as forgiveness, purity, temptation, service, discipline, solitude, endurance, strength, hope, and more by a variety of authors including St. Francis of Assisi, Marcus Aurelius,...
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£17.88
Les Bonnes Responses a tous propos Italien & Francois; livre fort plaisant et delectable, auquel est contenu grand nombre de Proverbs et sentences joyeusus...Traduite d'italienne en nostre vulgate Francois
by [Bellero, Giovanni]
Paris: Chez Pierre Menier, 1609. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo [3" x 4.5"]. Later period red calf binding framed with gilt. Inner edges dentelle A.e.g. Marbled endpapers. [80] leaves. Collation: A - K8. Bookplate of De Guinzbourg on front pastedown endpaper. Light wear and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Small stain on front board. Some scuffing to boards. Closed tear to head of title page previously repaired. Name and publisher scratched on title page affecting text. Sporadic stains and light...
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£357.54
Refranes o Preverbios Castellanos Traduzidos en Lengua Francesa Proverbes Espagnols Traduicts en Francois
by Oudin, Cesar [1560-1652]
Paris: Pierre Lamy, 1659. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Calf binding with raised bands and gilt on spine. [12] 356 p.p. Ex libris bookplate of Victor de Guinzbourg, former United Nations staff interpreter on front pastedown endpaper.Inner Dentelle border, gilt faded. Pages yellowed with some staining. Headband showing on head and tail of spine. Stains on rear board, with rubbing to extremities but otherwise in very good condition. Originally published in 1605, this book is a collection of...
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£595.90
Steps to the Crown
by Waite, Arthur Edward. 1857-1942
Covent Garden, London: Philip Welby, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. 4.5" x 7" Cloth. Top edges gilt. [2] works by the author, xvi, 230 p.p. plus [4] p.p. ads. Signed by Waite on half-title "To: T. Michael Pope, with warmest regards from the author." Some soiling to boards with rubbing to edges and extremities. Spine darkened, rubbed. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Light foxing throughout. Some sporadic pencil markings in the margins highlighting certain passages. Pages are trimmed, not affecting text....
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£744.88
El Espiritu De Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra o La Filosofia De Este Grande Ingenio. Presentada en Máximas, Reflexiones, Moralidades y Agudezas de Todas Especies y Sobre Todos los Asuntos más Importantes de la Vida Civil..
by Cervantes, Miguel De; Arrieta, D. Augustin Garcia
Madrid: Jose Del Ojo Gomez, 1885. Hardcover. Fine. 32mo. New Edition. Text in Spanish. Quarter bound marbled green leather over green buckram boards. Title in gilt on red spine label. Top edge in red, with red marbled endpapers. Ejemplar num. 198 p.p. Bookplate of Lt. Colonel V.S.M. de Guinzbourg on front pastedown endpaper. Owner inscription on half-title. Some trimming to bottom pages. The bottom right tip of p. 69 clipped, but text unaffected. Head and tail of spine lightly worn, with light wear to...
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£595.90
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, From the Fourteenth Century...In Two Volumes
by Halliwell, James Orchard
London: John Russell Smith, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Eighth edition. Full burgundy cloth. xxxvi, 480 pp; 481-960, 32 pp. Roughly cut edges. Rebacked with new spine, printed paper spine labels, new endpapers. Boards are scuffed and stained. Some rubbing and wear to extremities. Blacked out portions to copyright page, with some show-through to title page, and pencil notation of LOC classification and "cancelled" on top of the blackout (possible ex-library [no marks remain indicating...
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£208.56
Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet : Women in Proverbs from Around the World
by Schipper, Mineke
New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2003. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. x, 422 pages. Part cross-cultural study, part literary criticism, and part anthology. The author anyalyses the similarities, differences, and contradictions in cultural norms about gender expressed in thousands of proverbs from over 150 countries. Organised by categories and includes endnotes and index....
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£13.18
