Postby Speakeasy » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:40 pm
Out of curiosity, I searched AbeBooks.uk using “unseen” as a keyword in combination with a number of commonly-studied languages as the title: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, and Greek. There were several hundred listings for each of the languages, most particularly for Latin. As a sample, I prepared the lists for German and French publications below. Similar lists could have been prepared for Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, and Greek. As far as I could tell, all of the books were published in the United Kingdom, which would seem to support the suggestion that the usage of “unseen” as I described above is primarily British.
German
Advanced German Unseens, Spalding, K
Advanced German Unseens, C. E. Stockton
Advanced Modern German Unseens, Williams, T P
Classified German Unseens, Evason, H S
Classified German Unseens including Comprehension Passages, Evason, H S
German Passages for Practice in Unseen Translation, A.R. Lechner
German Passages for Unseen Translation, Wanstall, H J B
German Passages for Unseen Translation: Intermediate, H.J.B.Wanstall
German Unseens for Middle and Upper Forms, Etheridge, W G
German Unseens for 'O' Level, Malpas, Frederick John
German Unseens Selected and Arranged, Florian A. R
Graded German Passages for Unseen Translation and Dictation, for Upper and Middle Forms, Stockton, C. E.
Modern German Unseens, Burg, Marie
Passages from German Authors for Unseen Translation, Bennett, E.K.
Simple German Unseens, Spalding, K
Translation From and Into German: A Guide to German Unseen Translation and Composition Suitable as a Preparation for the First Public Examination, H. Midgley
French
Advanced French Unseen, K. C. Bruce
Advanced French Unseens, R.J. Le Grand
Advanced French Unseens, C. E. Stockton
Advanced French Unseens, C. K. Bruce
Advanced Modern French Unseens, Freedland, N
Classified French Unseens, Evason, H S
Classified French Unseens 1913, W.G.Hartog
French Passages For Unseen Translation, C. H. Parry
French Style Through Unseens, Grundy, J. B. C.
French Unseens, Wood, John Sinclair
French Unseens, Thimann, I C
French Unseens Extracts from Contemporary French Writers for Translation Into English, Niklaus, R. ; J. Sinclair Wood
French Unseens for Middle Forms, Eugene Pellissier
French Unseens for Middle Forms. Sixty Passages for Sight Translation. Graded to Fifth Form Standard, W.M. Daniels
French Unseens for Upper Forms, Eugene Pellissier
French Unseens in Prose and Verse, Stockton, C. E.
French Unseens, Prose and Verse, Book III, for Upper Forms, Kastner L.E., Marks J.
French Unseens, Senior Course, Florian A. R
French Unseens Senior in Two Books, The Rev. S.E. Longland
Higher School Certificate French Unseens, Fletcher, F T H & Morris, A G
Hundred Modern French Unseens, Janet M. Ferrier
Lamps’ New and Old: a Book of French Unseens for Matriculation, Perkins
Let Us Translate: French Unseens for Third Year Students, Parker, Joy
Longmans’ Advanced French Unseens With Notes and Vocabulary, Bertenshaw, T.H.
Longmans Elementary French Unseens With Notes and Vocabulary, Bertenshaw, T.H.
Modern French Unseens, Burg, Marie
School Certificate and Matriculation French Unseens, Lamport-Smith, L
Senior French Unseens, Gardiner
Sixty Modern French Unseens, C.W.E. Kirk- Greene
The Normal French Unseens, Magny, Jules
The Translation of French Unseens. With Exercises, Perrot, Eugene
Translation From and Into French. A Guide to French Unseen Translation and Composition, Bearman, Ethel
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