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Advanced Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1924 (1912).This is a copy of the Third Edition of this work, 1924, first published, in 1912. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930),…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright]."New & Revised edition. " This "new and revised edition [was] printed from new plates." (From "new plates" is the very definition of a new…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright].Fifth Edition. It seems likely that this Fifth, and the Seventh Edition, q.v., date from sometime in the 1920s, but there is no evidence in the book…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright]."Seventh Edition."It would not be until an Eighth edition in 1933, q.v. - 24 years after the original 1909 publication - that the reader would be…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company, 1933.Eighth Edition. Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York,…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti.[Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia, with pronunciation. Divided in 11 parts]. New York: Libreria De Martino, Inc./Italian Book Company, [1963].The original (1896) edition was self-published by the author; appears later to have sold the copyright to the IBC, and became a corporate officer of…
A Grammar of the Italian Language. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. Simultaneously published in London by Richard James Kennett.Born Ignazio Batolo, Bachi (b. Palermo, 1787; d. Boston, 1853) received his law degree at the University of Padua, but fled the country in opposition…
Secondo libro del manuale per imparare la lingua inglese senza maestro. Contenente storiette amene ed il segretario spedito [Second Manual for Learning the English Language without a Teacher. Containing pleasant stories and a quick secretary] [Facsimile]. New York: [n.p.], 1886.This second grammar by Bassetti followed hard on what he described in ads as the success of the first one. Designed especially for immigrant Italians,…
Romanzetto storico contemporaneo intitolato Amor focoso, ossia avventure di un ex-brigante calabrese in America [Contemporary Historical Romance entitled Smoldering Love, or Adventures of an Ex-Bandit Calabrese in America][Facsimile]. New York: [Copyright 1886, by August Bassetti; Right of translation reserved], 1887.In this novel, the author appears as a character who like the novel itself unabashedly promotes his two grammars (like this copy, a facsimile copy of…
De Porquet's Italian Phrases; or, Il Fraseggiatore Toscano. Boston: S. Burdett & Co., 1832.Reflecting the widespread interest in learning Italian among Americans in this era, this work was published in the same year, 1832, as the Longfellow…