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The Sierra Leone Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1822,... to which are added Lists of the Civil and Army Departments;... Freetown: J. Mitton, Printer, [1822]. 8° (190 x 120mm). Original marbled wrappers, uncut, (wrappers worn), green cloth case. FINE COPY OF THE FIRST PRINTING. Together with a collection of work on African Languages including; Fr. B. Maria de CANNECATTIM. Diccionario da Lingua Bunda, o Angolense... Lisboa: Impressao Regia, 1804. 8° (206 x 155mm). Contemporary red morocco, fully gilt, gauffered gilt edges, (worm holes to foot of spine not affecting text). [and:] Fr. B. Maria de CANNEMATTIM. Colleccao de Observacoes Grammaticaes sobre a Lingua Bunda, ou Angolense,... Lisboa: Impressao Regia, 1805. 8° (204 x 142mm). Contemporary red morocco fully gilt, gauffered gilt edges. [and:] W.H.I. BLEEK. The Languages of Mosambique... London: Harrison and Sons, 1856. Oblong 8° (120 x 190mm). Original quarter black calf gilt. PRESENTATION COPY, with an A.L.s. from the author tipped-in. [and:] M. von BEURMANN. Vocabulary of the Tigre Language. Halle:Buchandlung des Waisenhauses, and London: Truebner, 1868. 8° (224 x 148mm). Original printed wrappers. [and:] J. TORREND. Grammatica do Chisena. A Grammar of the Language of the Lower Zambezi. Chinde, Zambezia: Chipanga Mission Press, 1900. 12° (171 x 127mm). Original red cloth. [and:] Rev. J.L. KRAPF. Testamen Imbecillum. Evangelii Johannis in Linguam Gallarum. London: R. Watts, 1839. 12° (167 x 105mm). Disbound. [and 4 further disbound pamphlets on Galla]. [and:] Rev. J.L. KRAPF. Outline of the Elements of the Kisuaheli Language, with special reference to the Kinika Dialect. Tubingen: Fues, 1850. 8° (217 x 137mm). Contemporary calf, (rubbed). [and:] Dr. J.L. KRAPF. Vocabulary of the Engutuk Eloikob or language of the Wakuafi-Nation in the interior of Equatorial Africa. Tubingen: Fues, 1854. 8° (224 x 144mm). Original cloth, (faded). [and:] Dr. J.L. KRAPF. Vocabulary of Six East African Languages... Tubingen: Fues, 1850. Folio (330 x 268mm). Modern cloth. [and:] Rev. John REBMAN. Dictionary of the Kiniassa Language. St. Chrischona, Switzerland: Printed for the C.M.S., 1877. 8° (190 x 125mm). Original cloth, (rubbed). [and:] J.G. KROENLEIN. Wortschatz der Khoi-Khoin (Namaqua-Hottentotten). Berlin: Colonial Printing Office, 1889. 4° Grammatiken der Hauptsprachen Deutsch-Sudwestafrikas. I. Nama... Vienna: Hartleben, n.d. 8° (174 x 115mm). Original cloth. Ex-War Office Library, withdrawal stamp on title-page. [and:] J. OLPP. Nama-Deutsches Worterbuch. Elberfeld: Friderichs, 1888. 8° (183 x 130mm). Original cloth. [and:] Edward STEERE. Short Specimens of the vocabularies of Three Unpublished African Languages... London: Charles Cull, 1869. 12° (165 x 110mm). Disbound. [and:] J.W.C. KIRK. Notes on the Somali Language. London: Henry Frowde, 1903. 12° (140 x 95mm). Original cloth folding case. [and:] Rev. J.A. HEASTY. English-Shilluk. Shilluk-English. Dictionary. Dolieb Hill, The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: The American Mission Press, 1937. 4° (281 x 220). Original printed boards. (21)