Search Results: Linguistics from Ancient World Books

Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0521200989 . Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). Light browning and Light edgewear to DJ. ; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 12; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 408 pages .

Collins and Hannay. Fair with no dust jacket. 1833. Hardcover. Corners are bumped. Edgewear to extremities. Front free endpaper has been torn out leaving small strip. Front hinge is weak and cracked but still attached. Foxing throughout with heavy foxing on a few pages. ; 276 pages .

Georg Olms Verlag. Fine with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. Porson's Adversaria was edited by two of his Cambridge colleagues and published posthumously in 1812. It includes notes and textual emendations to several Greek writers. Porson discovered Greek metrical rule known as 'Porson's law', and his handwriting inspired a Greek typeface that was widely used for over a century. Unchanged reprint of 1814 edition. ; 354 pages; Isbn: 3487071983 .

University of Toronto Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0802021166 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Adds about 1700 glosses and offers extensive information on their paleographic dating. Standard reference for those interested in German etymology, the history of the German language, and medieval Latin lexicography ; 154 pages .

James Walton. Good with no dust jacket. 1869. Hardcover. Boards are spotted. Spine has been repaired with cloth tape and handwritten lettering. ; 112 pages .

Geo. Sherwood & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1867. Hardcover. Inner hinges cracked. Some loss to spine cloth at base of spine. Spine cover cracked along 1 joint. Corners edgeworn. Former owner's name to ffep. Pages tanned. ; Analytical Series; 264 pages .

S. F. Vanni. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. A couple of corners very lightly bumped. Else fine. ; Language and Culture; 138 pages .

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 2007. Paperback. 0195312937 . Light shelfwear with faint creasing. ; Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers from exploiting the large body of commentaries, scholia, lexica, and grammatical treatises that have been preserved on papyrus and via the manuscript tradition. Now, for the first time, there is an introduction to such scholarship that will enable students and scholars unfamiliar with this material to use it in their work. Ancient Greek Scholarship includes detailed discussion of the individual ancient authors on whose works scholia, commentaries, or single-author lexica exist, together with explanations of the probable sources of that scholarship and the ways it is now used, as well as… Read More

E. J. Brill. Very Good. 1988. Softcover. 9004084312 . Rear upper corner of wraps is creased. . Very light browning to wraps. ; The authors show the close relationships between the Cretan Pictographic and Linear A scripts and their counterparts in Syro-Palestine, the signary of the Phaistos Disc and that of the Luwian hieroglyphic script in Anatolia, and the Cyprian scripts and their equivalent from Ugarit. A pioneer work in the deciphering of ancient languages. ; Publications from the Henri Frankfort Foundation Volume Nine [9]; 131 pages .

Macmillan & Co. , Ltd. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. Inner front hinge is cracked exposing webbing but textblock is firmly attached. Fraying to corners and spine ends. Former owner's details from Oct. 1934 on front free-endpaper. ; Columbia University studies in Romance philology and literature; 167 pages .

A. W. Sijthoff. Fair. 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Spine and part of wraps have been crudely reinforced with masking tape while inner hinges have been reinforced with cellotape. Some creasing to wraps. Wraps are browned. Internally VG. ; Greek text with Latin Commentary; 156 pages .

Very Good. 1995. Softcover. Light creasing to top corner and first few pages. Hard corner crease to rear wrap. ; Thesis Universiteit van Amsterdam. English text, with summary in Dutch; Proefschrift (Diss. ) ; 235 pages .

Routledge & Kegan Paul. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0691060088 . Minor shelfwear. Foxing to top of textblock. ; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. .

Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. 0691060088 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. DJ has rubbing and edgewear to corners. 2 closed tears along DJ spine. ; Signed by author on ffep to Paul Fenimore Cooper, jr. ; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. ; Signed by Author .

Princeton University Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. 0691060088 . Underlining in marker to some pages with notes to endpapers. Former owner's name on inner cover and on ffep. Foxing to top of textblock. ; 350 pages; Explores rhetorical theory and practice from the fifth to first centuries B. C. Begins with the practical, creative rhetoric of the pre-Socratic era, progresses through the time of Aristotle and the Attic orators, and concludes with the ossification of rhetoric into a sterile, pedantic discipline during the Hellenistic period. .

Martinus Nijhoff. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. 902475173X . Spine is lightly discolored. Light shelfwear. Institution stamp to ffep (Hartford College Classics Dept). No other markings. ; Looks at the role and impact of oratory of Greco-Roman Alexandria to AD 400. ; 184 pages .

Martinus Nijhoff. Very Good+. 1974. Softcover. 902475173X . Spine is lightly discolored. Light shelfwear. Corners slightly lifting. ; Looks at the role and impact of oratory of Greco-Roman Alexandria to AD 400. ; 184 pages .

Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. 0691100039 . Minor rubbing and shelfwear to wraps. DJ has edgewear with light chipping and a couple of small tears. ; Traces the development of Greek and Latin oratory and rhetorical theory from 300 BC to AD 300. During that period, he shows, the art of persuasion the Romans inherited from the greeks gradually became an art more concerned with the secondary characteristics of rhetoric: style and artistic effort. ; 0.76 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches; 658 pages .

Bouma's Boekhuis. Very Good+. 1982. Softcover. Very light dustsoiling to top of textblock. Very minor shelfwear. ; Proefschrift (Diss. ) ; 535 pages .

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1901. Hardcover. 0404113516 . Light browning to ffeps. Ex-library copy with institution bookplate on inner cover, call number to spine, stamp to textblock and pocket. Slight bubbling to cloth. Back inner hinge is slightly cracked. Binding is still solid. Edgewear to extremities. ; Books on Egypt and Chaldaea Vol. V; 216 pages .