Thomas Hyde Editor (13 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 328 pages. 7.72x5.08x1.14 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Never read, no marks or highlights in the text. Our copy is a hardback with a dust jacket, showing small tears in the jacket and a ding in the front cover along the fore-edge.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd new upd edition. 264 pages. 10.00x7.00x9.89 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd new upd edition. 264 pages. 10.00x7.00x9.89 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd new upd edition. 264 pages. 10.00x7.00x9.89 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 1173 pages. 11.25x8.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Octavo. (2), VI, 136 pages. Original, printed wrappers (Original, publisher's Softcover boards). Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A very, very rare book ! Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) [known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (lit. transl. the pleasant little branch)], a founding member and first president of Conradh na Gaeilge (The Gaelic League) 1893, and later first President of Ireland (1938- 1945), linked the cultural regeneration of Ireland to the language and culture of the contemporary Gaeltacht. Directing his attention to the Irish-speaking areas of his native Connacht , he collected various genres of folk narrative poetry, songs, prayers and charms, and especially the folktales still remembered, though no longer performed for entertainment purposes. His Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta ('Book of Storytelling') (1889) the first collection of folktales in the Irish language was followed in 1890 by the largely bilingual Beside the Fire/Le h-Ais na Teineadh, and by the significant collection of Märchen ('Wonder Tales') with French translations, An Sgéaluidhe Gaedhealach ('The Gaelic Storyteller') (1901), published initially in Annales de Bretagne, vols 10-18 (1895-1901), by Georges Dottin. In Ocht Sgéalta Ó Choillte Mágach ('Eight Stories from Kiltimagh') (1936) and Scéalta Thomáis Uí Chathasaigh/Mayo Stories Told by Tomas Casey (1939), Hyde brought together the repertoire of a single storyteller. His bilingual collections Abhráin Grádha Chúige Connacht or Love Songs of Connacht (1893), Abhráin atá Leagtha ar an Reachtúire/Songs Ascribed to Raftery (1903), and Abhráin Diaga Chúige Connacht or Religious Songs of Connacht (1906), revealed a hidden world of emotion, spirituality and attitudes to poets and poetry of his native province. (Source: ask about ireland) Sprache: gaeilge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 3 parts in one volume: Part I. (De Ludis Orientalibus. Libri Duo .) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem . De ludis Orientalium Libri primi . 36 leaves (including pretitle and title), 184 pages. (folding plates after page 58, 62 and 70). Part II. Shahiludium. Traditum in tribus scriptis hebraicis, quae sunt Rabbi Abraham Abben - Ezrae elegans Poema ryhtmicum . Omnia ex Chartis MSS jam primus deprompsit & Latinè vertit Thomas Hyde 1 leaf (including title), 71 pages, 1 leaf. Part III. Historia nerdiludii, hoc est dicere, Trunculorum; cum quibusdam aliis Arabum, Persarum, Indorum, Chinensium, & aliarum gentium ludis tam politicis quàm bellicis, plerumque Europae inauditis, multò minùs visis: additis omnium Nominibus in dictarum Gentium Linguis. Ubi etiam Classicorum Graecorum & Latinorum loca quaedam meliùs quàm hactenùs factum est explicantur. Item, Explicatio amplissimi Chinensium Ludi, qui eorum Politiam & modum perveniendi ad Dignitates in Aulâ Regiâ exponit, & egregio ac peramplo Schemate repraesentat. / De Ludis Orientalibus Lib. 2dus, quem horis succisivis congessit Thomas Hyde . 8 leaves (including title), 278 pages, 1 leaf white. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 4 1/2") bound in full contemporary leather with five raised spine bands title and red label to spine in gilt lettering. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 173; Geschichte I, 88 f; Schmid S. 200 ff) First edition. Thomas Hyde was an English orientalist. Hyde was educated at Eton College, and in his sixteenth year entered King's College, Cambridge. He made rapid progress in Oriental languages, so that, after only one year of residence, he was invited to London to assist Brian Walton in his edition of the Polyglott Bible. In 1658 he was chosen Hebrew reader at Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1659, in consideration of his erudition in Oriental tongues, he was admitted to the degree of M.A. In the same year he was appointed under-keeper of the Bodleian Library, and in 1665 librarian-in-chief. Today he is considered the founder of scientific chess history. Condition: Edge wear with bumped corners, hinges rubbed, book plate to front paste down else very good.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.