Sir James William Redhouse (30 December 1811 – 4 January 1892) was a British lexicographer. He authored the original and authoritative Ottoman–English dictionary. He was commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for his dictionary. His work was later used as the basis for many Turkish–English dictionaries. (From Wikipedia)
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Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892, trans.: The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A Simplified Grammar of the Ottoman-Turkish Language (London: Trübner and Co., 1884)
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Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 9]. ([publisher not identified], 1879), also by T. S. Omond, Calvin Thomas, William Thomson, Rossetter G. Cole, Wilson Farrand, Winthrop Chamberlain, Alfred Scott Warthin, Eleanor Prescott Hammond, Willard Grosvenor Bleyer, Alexander Melville Bell, Antonio Fusco, Gordon A. Southworth, Georg Bauer, Walter Bagehot, Charles William Dabney, Louis Grossman, William Torrey Harris, Frank Egbert Bryant, Joseph Villiers Denney, Fred Newton Scott, Albert S. Cook, B. C. Burt, Association of High School Teachers of English of New York City. Committee on Pedagogy, University of Michigan. Department of Law. Practice Court, Benj. H. Sanborn & Co, and Newark Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: The diary of H. M. the Shah of Persia, during his tour through Europe in A. D. 1873 (J. Murray, 1874), also by Shah of Iran Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: The diary of H. M. the Shah of Persia, during his tour through Europe in A. D. 1873. (J. Murray, 1874), also by Shah of Iran Nasir al-Din Shah (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: An English and Turkish dictionary. (B. Quaritch, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: An English and Turkish dictionary in two parts, English and Turkish, and Turkish and English (Bernard Quaritch, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: An English and Turkish dictionary, in two parts, English and Turkish, and Turkish and English. (B. Quarich, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Grammaire raisonnée de la langue ottomane ... (Gide et cie, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: History of the Resúliyy dynasty of Yemen (Leyden : E.J. Brill, Imprimerie Orientale ; London : Luzac & Co., 1906-1918., 1906), also by ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan Khazrajī, Muḥammad Basyūnī ʻAsal, Alexander Rogers, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, and Edward Granville Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: The L-poem of the Arabs ... (Trübner & co., 1982) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A lexicon, English and Turkish. (B. Quaritch, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A lexicon, English and Turkish; shewing in Turkish, the literal, incidental, figurative, colloquial, and technical significations of the English terms, indicating their pronunciation in a new and systematic manner; and preceded by a sketch of English etymology, to facilitate to Turkish students the acquisition of the English language / by J.W. Redhouse. (Printed for the mission by A.H. Boyajian, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A lexicon, English and Turkish, shewing in Turkish, the literal, incidental, figurative, colloquial and technical significations of the English terms, indicating their pronunciation in a new and systematic manner and preceded by a Sketch of English etymology, to facilitate to Turkish students the acquisition of the English language. (Printed for the Mission by A. H. Boyajian, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892, trans.: The Mesnevi, by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi (Gutenberg ebook)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A mother's advice to her daughter, and the wild daughter's undutiful reply; two humorous Turkish poems, in the harem dialect of women, and in pentastich strophes, with recurrent chorus (Privately printed, 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Müntahabat-ı Lûgat-i Osmaniye. (Ceridehane, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Muntakhabāt al-lughāt al-ʻothmānīye. ([Istanbul, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Observations on the so-called poem of Meysun, and on Meysun's claim to the authorship of the poem, with an appendix on Arabic transliteration and pronounciation. ([London, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: On the history, system, and varieties of Turkish poetry. Illustrated by selections in the original, and in English paraphrase, with a notice of the Islamic doctrine of the immortality of woman's soul in the future state. (Trübner and co., 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: On "the most comely names," i.e. the laudatory epithets, or the titles of praise, bestowed on God in the Qurʻān or by Muslim writers. ([London], 1880), also by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Pamphlets ([London], 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Redhouse's Turkish dictionary, in two parts, English and Turkish, and Turkish and English. (B. Quaritch, 1880), also by Charles Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Redhouse's Turkish dictionary, in two parts, English and Turkish, and Turkish and English. (Quaritch, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A tentative chronological synopsis of the history of Arabia and its neighbors, from B.C. 500,000(?) to A.D. 679. (Trübner & co., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A Turkish and English lexicon (H. Matteosian : Printed for the American Board Mission, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: Turkish and English lexicon (Printed for the American mission by A.H. Boyajian, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A Turkish and English lexicon, shewing in English the significations of the Turkish terms (Printed for the American mission by A. H. Boyajian, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: A Turkish and English lexicon : shewing in English the significations of the Turkish terms (Çağrı Yayınları, 1978) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir, 1811-1892: The Turkish Vade-Mecum of Ottoman colloquial language, containing a concise Ottoman grammar, a carefully selected vocabulary, alphabetically arranged in two parts - English and Turkish, and Turkish and English [etc.] (Trübner [& co.], 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
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