1. Massard. F. Victor (Editor) / [Lot, Pierre].

Pêcheur d’Islande. Annotations

3rd Impression. London, Rivingtons, 1916. 11 cm x 15.8 cm. 251 pages: Pêcheur d’Islande, 171 pages / Annotations booklet, 80 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with decorated front board. Softcover booklet with captioned blue paperboards enclosed in pocket at rear paste down. Good- condition. Hardcover board show shelf wear. Corners are rubbed and bumped. Booklet paper boards and preliminary pages creased. Interiors of both mostly clean and bright with only very occasional pencilled notes. Open tear to front endpaper of book, which carries pencilled private signature. Some foxing to preliminary pages of booklet. All bindings good and firm. [Massard’s Series of French Readers]

2. Rausch, Friedrich.

Original, trilingual handbook with loosely inserted plates, showing the phonetics (position and look of tongue, lips and teeth-positions during speaking certain words) Handausgabe von Rausch’s Lauttafeln [Inclusive dem englischen “th”] – 26 lithographische Tafeln mit Lautbezeichnungen der Association Phonetique Internationale nach Vietor’s Lauttafeln. Zusätzlich mit einer deutschen Lauttafel (System Vietor) welche nach Lippenlauten, Zahnlauten, Gaumenlauten und Kehllauten trennt.

2. Auflage der verkleinerten Ausgabe. Marburg, N.G.Elwert / Association Phonetique International, [1913]. Octavo. 26 Tafeln in Postkartengröße, lose in originaler Verlags-Flügelmappe. Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand dieser seltenen Ausgabe / Tafel 1 rückseitig mit Bibliotheksstempel. Alle Tafeln vorderseitig mit zusätzlicher (verkehrter) Numerierung in Buntstift. / Reduced edition (pocket edition) of Friedrich Rausch’s phonetic plates, illustrating the speech sounds, including one plate for the digraph “th”.

3. Robinson, Charles H.

Hausa Grammar – With Exercises, Readings, and Vocabularies, and Specimens of Hausa Script.

Fifth Edition, Revised (Eleventh Impression). London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1941. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. VII, 218 pages. Fold-out grammar-table within rearboard-pocket. Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Scoff marks, shelfwear and fading to boards evident. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong. Preowner’s details on front endpaper (C.E.Wortley – R.A.F. Regiment – August 1942).

4. Steere, Edward,

A Handbook of the Swahili Language – As Spoken at Zanzibar.

Fourth Edition, Revised. London, The Sheldon Press, 1943. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 184 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Interior bright and clean.