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  • The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon
    Albert Samuel Gatschet
    'The fact that languages of rude and more primitive people are built up more regularly and often show a closer observance of logical principles than those of people of ancient civilizations . . . can no longer be doubted.'-Albert Samuel Gatschet, The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon: Letter of transmittal.The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon (1890) Volume II, part I...
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    33,25 €

  • The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon
    Albert Samuel Gatschet
    'There is probably no language spoken in North America possessed of a nominal inflection more developed than the Klamath.'-Albert Samuel Gatschet, The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon (1890)The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon: Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume II, part I (1890), by Albert Samuel Gatschet, is a two-part document, second in the nine-p...
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    37,59 €

  • A Dakota-English Dictionary
    Stephen Return Riggs
    'Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.'-Luther Standing Bear, Chief, Dakota (Sioux) Native Americans (late 19th Century)A Dakota-English Dictionary (1852) is the seventh volume of a nine-part series Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). At the time, the Dakota language consisted of three well-defined dialects: the Santee, Yankton, ...
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    37,76 €

  • The Cegiha Language
    James Owen Dorsey
    'Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.'-Crazy Horse, Chief Lakota (Sioux) Native Americans (1890)The Cegiha Language (1890), by Rev. James Owen Dorsey is the sixth volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). This comprehensive book is compris...
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    35,90 €

  • Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon
    George Gibbs / W. H. Dall
    'Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.'-Seattle, Chief of Suquamish and Duwamish tribes (19th Century)Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and, Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon (1877) by William Dall and George Gibbs, is the first volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to N...
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    25,83 €

  • The Columbian Orator
    Caleb Bingham
    The Columbian Orator, Caleb Bingham’s classic work of 1797, contains both the oratory of the American Founding Fathers alongside imagined speeches from gifted orators of past epochs.Exceptional both for its contents and greater impact upon the fledgling society of the United States, this compendium of fine speech carries great historical and cultural value. As well as American ...
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    14,20 €

  • Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar
    Wilhelm Gesenius / Arthur Ernest Cowley
    The famous exposition of Hebrew linguistics by Wilhelm Gesenius - who was one of the most lauded Biblical scholars of his era - is reprinted here in the popular translation by Arthur Ernest Cowley.As a Bible tutor and Lutheran scholar, Gesenius depended on a reliable knowledge of Hebrew to effectively teach the Old Testament. A voracious reader and a gifted speaker, Gesenius am...
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    20,10 €

  • Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory
    John Quincy Adams
    Before becoming President of the United States, John Quincy Adams was a Harvard professor of language, rhetoric and oratory, with this book comprising his lectures.Published in 1810 when Quincy Adams was in his forties, this work is a collection which demonstrates the breadth of knowledge which he passed to students eager to learn about the arts of speaking. The early lectures ...
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    12,43 €

  • A Dictionary of the English Language, Volume I (in two volumes)
    Samuel Johnson
    'Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.' -Samuel Johnson, Johnson: Letter to Fransesco Sastres (1784)A Dictionary of the English Language Volume I (1825), originally published in 1755, was the first dictionary in the English language to provide detailed definitions and is still widely used to define the me...
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    61,48 €

  • A Dictionary of the English Language, Volume II (in two volumes)
    Samuel Johnson
    'Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.' -Samuel Johnson, Johnson: Letter to Fransesco Sastres (1784)A Dictionary of the English Language Volume II (1825), originally published in 1755, was the first dictionary in the English language to provide detailed definitions and is still widely used to define the m...
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    61,52 €