Assyrian, Kurdish & Yizidis" Indexed Grammar and Vocabulary with a Few Grammatical Notes

Baghdad: Government Press, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. index, [4], 86, iv(p.). Original mustard-colored boards narrowly-backed in red cloth. 19 cm. Former owners's name (HM. Jackson) on front cover. Stamped on title-page: Chief Education Officer GHQ. P.A.I.F. No jacket (did it ever have one?). Rusted areas around rusty staples (which seem to be still intact). Tables, etc. generally rendered in three columns: (1) English; (2) Kurdish & Yazidis; and (3) Assyrian. "The Kurdish and Yizidis of this book is that spoken by all Yizidis and the Kurds between the Black Sea, Lake Urmia and Mosul, and is mostly a combination of Persian Arabic and Turkish. It (truncated) is entirely different to the Kurdish spoken in other parts of Kurdistan." [Printed Note on verso to title-leaf]. A linguistic rarity. OCLC locates one copy (in Germany). (Inventory #: 94016)