‎Vorlesungen über die vier Ersten Gesänge von Homer’s Illias. Hrsg. Leonhard Usteri. 1. Bändchen: Enthaltend die Einleitung in das Studium Homer’s und die Scholien zum ersten Gesang.‎

‎ Bern, C.A. Jenni 1830, 210x130mm, VIII- 192Seiten, Pappband. ‎

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‎Prolegomena ad Homerum sive de Operum Homericum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi. Volumen I (all that appeared). - [THE NEW PHILOLOGY - PMM 248]‎

‎Halis Saxonum (Halle), E Libreria Orphanotrophei, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with a bit of wear, especially to corners and edges. Gilding to title-label worn off. Paper over boards loosening at edges. Overall fine and tight. A light damp stain to upper margin and a few leaves with some light brownspotting.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the epoch-making work that founded modern philological scholarship and began the modern debate over the date of writing of Homer's works, creating in turn the two Homeric schools of thought, the Analysts and the Unitarians. Although the work bears on the title-page the words ""Volumen I"", no second volume ever appeared, and Wolf never made any attempt to compose it. ""When Wolf took up his professorship in 1783, a critical point in the history of education had been reached. New ideas derived from Locke and Rousseau were at work and Wolf longed to enter the fray. He found able and enlightened allies in the ministers of Frederick the Great, and with their help and by his enthusiasm he was able to carry out his long-cherished plan to give a new basis to the science of philology. To Wolf this meant philology in the original sense - love of letters, of learning and of language. He defined it as ""the knowledge of human nature as exhibited in antiquity"""" its matter was everything that remained of ancient culture, to which an equal care and scholarship must be devoted. The ""Prolegomena to Homer"", the best exposition of Wolf's beliefs, were written in a great hurry to meet the needs of a lecture course, and they have all the merits of good lectures: command of method, the gift of inspiration, penetration and breadth of view. Wolf's thesis is no theory, but a collection of great ideas, which laid the foundations for the dominance of German scholarship in the nineteenth century. They have inspired and given purpose to education ever since."" (Printing and the Mind of Man).With the 18th century came major developments in classical scholarship, the greatest of the classic epics being no exception - Homeric scholarship changed dramatically, and the end of the century saw the opening of the discussion which was to dominate the 19th and 20th centuries, namely that of the ""Homeric question"". The Homeric question is essentially the question of the identity of the poet(s) of the Homeric epics, and the nature of the relationship between ""Homer"" and the epics. In the 19th century it came to be the fulcrum between two opposed schools of thought, the Analysts and the Unitarians. The issue came about in the context of 18th-century Romantic interest in popular lays and folktale, and the growing recognition that the Homeric epics must have been transmitted orally before being written down, possibly much later than ""Homer"" himself. The key to determining who Homer was, lay in the answer to the question of when the poems were composed.The modern debate over exactly when they took on a fixed written form, began with the present work by Wolf. According to Wolf, the date of writing is among the first questions in the textual criticism of Homer. He considers the real mode of transmission of the poems and acknowledges that it was oral, arguing that they were composed in the mid-10th century BC. He further concludes that the Iliad and the Odyssey could not have been composed in the form in which we know them without the aid of writing and that they changed considerably over time in the hands of bards performing them orally and editors adapting written versions to contemporary tastes. The apparent artistic unity of the poems must have come about after their transcription.This new form of philological scholarship completely altered the way that philology has been done ever since the appearance of the present work.‎

‎Prolegomena ad Homerum sive de Operum Homericum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi. Volumen I (all that appeared). - [THE NEW PHILOLOGY - PMM 248]‎

‎Halis Saxonum (Halle), E Libreria Orphanotrophei, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt title-and tome-labels. Very neatly rebacked. Very nice and clean. An excellent copy. (6), CCLXXX pp.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the epoch-making work that founded modern philological scholarship and began the modern debate over the date of writing of Homer's works, creating in turn the two Homeric schools of thought, the Analysts and the Unitarians. Although the work bears on the title-page the words ""Volumen I"", no second volume ever appeared, and Wolf never made any attempt to compose it. ""When Wolf took up his professorship in 1783, a critical point in the history of education had been reached. New ideas derived from Locke and Rousseau were at work and Wolf longed to enter the fray. He found able and enlightened allies in the ministers of Frederick the Great, and with their help and by his enthusiasm he was able to carry out his long-cherished plan to give a new basis to the science of philology. To Wolf this meant philology in the original sense - love of letters, of learning and of language. He defined it as ""the knowledge of human nature as exhibited in antiquity"""" its matter was everything that remained of ancient culture, to which an equal care and scholarship must be devoted. The ""Prolegomena to Homer"", the best exposition of Wolf's beliefs, were written in a great hurry to meet the needs of a lecture course, and they have all the merits of good lectures: command of method, the gift of inspiration, penetration and breadth of view. Wolf's thesis is no theory, but a collection of great ideas, which laid the foundations for the dominance of German scholarship in the nineteenth century. They have inspired and given purpose to education ever since."" (Printing and the Mind of Man).With the 18th century came major developments in classical scholarship, the greatest of the classic epics being no exception - Homeric scholarship changed dramatically, and the end of the century saw the opening of the discussion which was to dominate the 19th and 20th centuries, namely that of the ""Homeric question"". The Homeric question is essentially the question of the identity of the poet(s) of the Homeric epics, and the nature of the relationship between ""Homer"" and the epics. In the 19th century it came to be the fulcrum between two opposed schools of thought, the Analysts and the Unitarians. The issue came about in the context of 18th-century Romantic interest in popular lays and folktale, and the growing recognition that the Homeric epics must have been transmitted orally before being written down, possibly much later than ""Homer"" himself. The key to determining who Homer was, lay in the answer to the question of when the poems were composed.The modern debate over exactly when they took on a fixed written form, began with the present work by Wolf. According to Wolf, the date of writing is among the first questions in the textual criticism of Homer. He considers the real mode of transmission of the poems and acknowledges that it was oral, arguing that they were composed in the mid-10th century BC. He further concludes that the Iliad and the Odyssey could not have been composed in the form in which we know them without the aid of writing and that they changed considerably over time in the hands of bards performing them orally and editors adapting written versions to contemporary tastes. The apparent artistic unity of the poems must have come about after their transcription.This new form of philological scholarship completely altered the way that philology has been done ever since the appearance of the present work. ‎

‎An English-Persian dictionary, compiled from original sources‎

‎New Delhi, Publication India 1994 xv + 462pp., 22cm., cart.cover, dustwrapper, VG, ISBN 81-85243-05-0, T71290‎

‎The Grammatical Papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Contributions to the Study of the 'Ars Grammatica' in Antiquity‎

‎Brussel, Paleis der Academiën 1979 333pp.with [21] illustrations out-of-text, text in English, 26cm., in the series: "Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren" jg.41 nr.92, original softcover, text is clean and bright, good condition, K64390‎

‎Kalabsha. The Preserving of the Temple.‎

‎ Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1972. In-folio broché, 88 pp., 38 pl. de reprod. photogr. en n/b., 19 plans dépliants, texte en anglais sur 2 colonnes, bibliographie et index. ‎

‎Coll. : Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 2. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo. Dos bruni, trace de mouillure angulaire en queue du dos, sans gravité, bon ex. - Frais de port : -France 6,9 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €) ‎

‎Lectures on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages‎

‎Amsterdam, Philo Press 1966 xi + 288pp., 23cm., publisher's hardcover in red cloth (bit sunfaded) with gilt lettering, good condition, X99564‎

‎Den Oldjavanske Wirâtaparwa og dens Sanskrit-Original. Bidrag til Mahâbhârata-Forskningen.‎

‎Kbhvn., 1916. (Disp.). 270 pp.‎

‎Über das Verhältnis des Malayo-Polynesischen zum Indochinesischen.‎

‎Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1942. Orig. printed wrappers. 158 pp.‎

‎Foundations of linguistics‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1979 xvi + 360pp., in the series "Cambridge studies in linguistics" vol.22, bit used, G‎

‎Idg. *peleku- 'Axt, Beil'. Eine paläo-linguistische Studie‎

‎Helsinki, 1956 145pp., 25cm., softcover, in the series "Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Sarja-ser. B Nide-" tom. 93-1, good condition, T82577‎

‎Das Luzerner Osterspiel. Gestützt auf die Textabschrift von M. Blackmore Evans und unter Verwendung seiner Vorarbeiten zu einer kritischen Edition nach den Handschriften. I. Texte des ersten Tages. II. Text des zweiten Tages. III. Textteile 1597 - 1616, Anmerkungen. Quellen. Glossar. Schriften, Herausgegeben unter dem Patronat der Schweizerischen Geisteswissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, 7.‎

‎ Bern, A. Francke AG Verlag 1967, 250x180mm, 367 + 300 + 302Seiten, Verlegereinband mit Umschlag. Schönes Exemplar.‎

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‎Die Wortsippen Quedan/Quiti und Sprehhan/Sprâhha in Abrogans und Samanunga. Diss.Germanistica Friburgensia 4.‎

‎ Freiburg S. , Universitätsverlag 1979, 210x145mm, 165Seiten, broschiert. Exemplar wie neu.‎

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‎Betænkning om det Grønlandske Sprogs Oprindelse og Liighed med andre Sprog.‎

‎(Kjøbenhavn, Waeysenhuuses Bogtrykkerie, 1758). 4to. Uden omslag. Udsnit af ""Skrifter, som udi det Kiøbenhavnske Selskab af Lærdoms og Videnskabers Elskere ere fremlagte og oplæste i Aaret 1745. Anden Deel."" Pp. 129-156.‎

‎First printing of the first comparative study of Greenlandic, - 15 years before Paul Egede's Greenlandic Grammar. The Latin edition reads ""Meletema, de lingvæ Groenlandicæ origine, ejusqve a cæteris lingvis differentia"".Lauridsen XII,6. - Groenlandica, p.93.‎

‎Das Beowulfslied. Nebst den kleineren Epischen, Lyrischen, Didaktischen und Geschichtlichen Stucken. ‘Bibliothek der Angelsachsischen Poesie. Begr. v. Chr. W. M. Grein’. Bd. 1.‎

‎Kassel, Georg H. Wigand, 1883, in-8vo, X + 422 S. (Middle english text, notes in german) + 4 Tafeln, Bibl.-Stempel + Sammler Stempel ‘Ex Bibliotheca Friedrich Wilhelm’, Hlwd. (Bibl.). Orig.-Umschlag miteingebunden.‎

‎Xenophontis Opera Omnia recensuit et commentariis in usum scholarum instruxit M. Frideric. August. Bornemann. Vol. I. continens Cyropaediam.‎

‎ Gothae et Erfordiae, Guil. Hennings 1828, 210x120mm, LXVIII- 626pages, reliure demi-toile. Plats papier marbré. Dos et plats muets. Trace d’une étiquette de cotation au dos. Quelques rousseurs. Bon état. ‎

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‎Expressions of the Linguistic Area of Repentance and Remorse in Old French. Diss.“The Catholic University of America. Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures. Vol. XXVII.”‎

‎ Washington, The Catholic University of America Press 1945, 230x150mm, XVII - 439pages, paperback. Book in good condition.‎

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‎Pocket dictionary or pocket companian English-Armenian & Armenian-English. Nor grpani bararan kam grpanid enkere : anglieren-hayeren & hayeren-anglieren‎

‎Boston, Hairenik Press 1960 2 volumes in one physical volume, [8] + 374 + 242pp., 16cm., publisher's hardcover in black cloth, with title pages in English & Armenian, text is clean and bright, internal binding has some use and bit fragile, although still good, cfr. OCLC 660928888, X116888‎

‎Bod-skad-kyi-brdah-gsar-rnin-dkah-ba Sog-khad-du-kah-li-sum-cuhi-rim-pas gtan-la-pheb-pahi-brdah-yig-mkas-pa .. [Tibetan-Mongolian dictionary in Tibetan script, in: Corpus Scriptorum Mongolorum, tomus IV]‎

‎Ulaanbaatar [Ulanbator], Ulsyn khevleliin gazar 1959 935 (+ 6) pp., 30cm., in the series "Corpus Scriptorum Mongolorum instituti linguae et litterarum comiteti scientiarum et educationis altae reipublicae populi Mongoli" tomus 4, original softcover (spine bit repaired, protected by cristal paper wrappers), [Tibetan-Mongolian dictionary, in Tibetan script, with an index of the Mongolian definitions], OCLC 219689269, texte and interior in very good condition, rare, weight: 4.2kg., X91503‎

‎Visions Egyptiennes. Visions profanes. Avec 30 gravures.‎

‎ Ottawa, Imp. du "Droit", 1936. In-12, rel. pleine percaline, 212 pp., 30 gravures h.-t., bibliogr. Ex-libris au tampon. ‎

‎ Très bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €) ‎

‎Les Enseignements de Robert de Ho‎

‎dits Enseignements Trebor. Publiés pour la 1°fois d'après les manuscrits de Paris et de Cheltenham. Picard. 1901. In-8 br. 176pp.‎

‎Das Partizip im Arabischen. Die Auffassungen der arabischen Grammatiker und der Sprachgebrauch in klassisch-arabischen Texten‎

‎Erlangen, 1990 v + 249pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation der Philosophischen Fakultät II der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, good condition, X109950‎

‎Les Stèles de Ramsès II a Tanis (1.-4. Partie). Extrait de Kêmi X,1949. Paris, 1949.‎

‎Solid private hcloth. 15,13,10,17 pp. and 8 plates.‎

‎Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Use.‎

‎Hong Kong, (Mc. Graw-Hill), 1972. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. Dustjacket with tear. Fine. LXVI,1720 pp.‎

‎Dictionary of synonyms and antonyms: English-Thai‎

‎Bangkok, Dokya 2001 472pp., 22cm., softcover, VG, ISBN 974-90119-4-5, X68991‎