latium leveeque (1 Ergebnisse)

Half leather. Octavo, half-leather binding with marbled sides, gilt-stamped title and raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers, illus vignette title page, pp i, 108. Pages lightly, evenly toned; title page heavily toned/different paper stock. Small white mark title page, inscription to top edge. Ex-library: small ex-library stamps. Original front paper wrap bound in. Very Good codition. Scarce. A landmark study of the language of the Gilbert Islands (a chain of atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, the main part of the country of Kiribati), now called Gilbertese of Kiribati. Alphones Colomb, the author, was a French priest in Tahiti who wrote the book from a manuscript by Latium Leveque. Father Leveque named the Gilbertese Arorai (from Arorae, an atoll in the group of islands.) The book sets out the grammatical rules of the language and provides Arorai-English and English Arorai vocabularies.