yates rev (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. Rare title. Quarter-bound green board with gold lettering and decoration, very few signs of use. Upper page edges gilded. Previous owner's dedication to front endapge, 1905. Red and black title page. Binding is tight, pages are secure. Textblocks and images are bright and clear. A nice copy of an attractive looking book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce study of the Bengali language by William Yates, known for his Bengali translations of the bible. The first edition.A very scarce language study on Bengali, written by William Yates, an English Baptist missionary and orientalist known for his Bengali translations of the Bible. Yates' translation of the bible was met with controversy after he and his partner translated one work to align with Baptist beliefs and not every denominations values.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, front joint tender and rear starting, light fading to the spine and extremities, minor edge wear and the odd minor mark to the boards. Owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, with light spotting to the endpapers. Front hinge held by cords after pp. viii and to the rear to 424. Internally binding tender in places with cords showing, the odd page weak nearly disbound. Pages generally bright with occasional age toning, and the odd spot, heavier to the rear. Good Only. book.

8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 394; text in Roman and Arabic character throughout; old library rubberstamps on title page, verso of title page, first page of text, and occasionally elsewhere in the text; old tape repair on p. ix and 1, a few marginal tears, previous owner's bookplate over other earlier bookplates; all else good and sound, or better, in later quarter burgundy morocco, gilt lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine which shows at the bottom library call numbers in gilt. The contents include a Hindustani grammar, a vocabulary, and reading lessons, including 35 fables, primarily from Aesop. First published in 1827. OCLC locates the BL and Glasgow copies only. The Trübner catalogue notes only the 7th edition of 1845.

8vo, pp. iv, [2], 589, [1], 19 (addenda); lexicon in double column; text in Roman and Arabic character throughout; contemporary quarter sheep over marbled paper-covered boards, extremities rubbed and worn, label lettered in gilt a bit rubbed; good and sound. Yates (1792-1845) is well known for his Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary, and his Hindustani grammar (see DNB). In 1831, oddly, he received a master's degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I. Not in Vancil; not in Zaünmuller; not in the Trübner Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars; not in the Astor Catalogue of Books relating to the Languages and Literature of Asia, Africa and the Oceanic Islands; not in Collison, Dictionaries of English and Foreign Languages; only the Yale copy is cited in NUC. OCLC, on the other hand, turns up 14, only 5 of which (Indiana, Yale, Georgetown, San Francisco Public Library, and Dartmouth) in the U.S.