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Two Titles on African Languages, including: R. Dozy. Supplément aux Dictionnaires Arabes. Second edition. [and:] Harry H. Johnston. A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages. Both titles in two volumes. Both sets in very good condition. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.


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This lot contains: R. Dozy. Supplément aux Dictionnaires Arabes. Leide: Brill, 1927. Second edition. Two octavo volumes. xxxii, 864; 855 pages. Text in French. Original blue cloth over marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities. [and:] Harry H. Johnston. A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919, 1922. Two quarto volumes. xi, 815; x, 544. Maps. Hinges to first volume cracked. Inked name of previous owner to front free endpapers of each volume.

All books in this lot have bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. Both sets in very good condition.



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