‎Philologie‎

‎GRIMM, JACOB.‎

‎Deutsche Grammatik. Vierter Theil. Neuer vermehrter Abdruck. Besorgt durch Gustav Roethe und Edward Schroeder.‎

‎Gütersloh, Bertelsmann, 1898. Bound in two later full clothbindings. LXII, 1312 pp.‎

‎Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785 - 1863), German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, his Deutsche Mythologie and more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales‎

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‎BRÆMME, POUL.‎

‎Anatomiens Navne. Med en Indledning om det anatomiske Sprog NA 95 (BNA) og NA 35 (JNA) m.m. Anden Udgave.‎

‎København, Gad, 1945. Orig. hshirtbd. LVI,206 pp.‎

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‎"HJELMSLEV, LOUIS.‎

‎Principes de grammaire générale. - [ANTICIPATING ""GLOSSEMATICS""]‎

‎København, Høst & Søn, 1928. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. A bit of minor wear to extremities and a bit of wear to spine. An excellent, very nice and clean copy. 362, (1 - errata) pp.‎

‎The rare first edition of Hjelmslev's first major book, in which he anticipates many of the views that led to the foundation of the seminal theory of language ""Glossematics"" which he framed together with H.J. Uldall. This foundational work treats the general laws of the formation of language and is an invaluable source for the understanding of Hjelmslev's linguistic theories. Hjelmslev had studied comparatvive linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, when in 1931 he co-founded the ""Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague"", also known as the ""Copenhagen School of Linguistics"" with Viggo Brøndal (1887-1942). Hjelmslev's linguistic theories formed the basis of this seminal school, which soon became one of the most important centres of structuralism in the world. The single most important cornerstone of this internationally highly influential school was the new theory on language that Hjelmslev had developed together with Hans-Jørgen Uldall. This theory consisted in the double duality of the linguistic sign and is now known as ""Glossematics"", a now generally used term, which was coined by the two. ""Glossematics"" represents an attempt to analyze the contents and the form of language on a coherent basis. Hjelmslev's theories of semiotics became hugely influential, and virtually all of the greatest European thinkers interested in language and theories of language throughout the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s were hugely influenced by Hjemslev, whose theories remain of seminal character to this day.‎

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‎DANIA.‎

‎Tidsskrift for Folkemål og Folkeminder. Udg. af Otto Jespersen og Kristoffer Nyrop. 10 Bd (alt som udkom).‎

‎K., 1890-1903. 5 samt.hshirtbd.‎

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‎MÖLLER , J. G. P.‎

‎Tysk och swensk Ord-Bok. 2 dele. Andra Uplagan.‎

‎Upsala, Kongl. academiska Bokhandeln, 1801-02. Indbundet i 2 samtidige halvlæderbind, kapitæler slidte, rygge og permer med brugsspor. 1274,1462 spalter. Gulplettede.‎

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‎WIMMER, LUDVIG F.A.‎

‎De Danske Runemindesmærker. Undersøgte og tolkede. Afbildningerne udførte af J.Magnus petersen. 4 Bd. (i 6 Afd.).‎

‎Kbhvn., 1893-1908. Folio. 6 orig.hshirtbd. med orig. smudsomslag. Helt frisk velbevaret eksemplar.‎

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‎WIMMER, LUDV. F.A.‎

‎Sønderjyllands Runesmindesmærker.‎

‎København, Nielsen & Lydiche, 1901. Lex8vo. Med orig. bogtrykt foromslag i smukt samtidigt hldrbd. med rygfogyldning. 60 pp., tekstillustr. Med dedikation på foromslaget til V.A. Secher. Sechers navnetræk på fribladet.‎

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‎"HESYCHIOS [HESYCHIUS ALEXANDRINUS].‎

‎Lexicon (in Greek). Hesychii Dictionarium. - [A MAIN WORK OF LINGUISTICS - THE FIRST GREEK WORK PRINTED IN HAGUENAU]‎

‎(On colophon-leaf:) Haguenau, in aedibus Thomae Badensis, 1521). Small folio. Beautiful full calf binding over wooden boards. Recently rebacked. Beautiful blindstamped ornamental borders to boards and remains of clasps, ties missing. A few smaller wormhols to boards, and two drilled holes of ab. the same size to lower part of front board (for a chain?). Ornamented incunable-leaves with red and blue initials used as pasted-down end-papers. Front free end-paper soiled, with neat 19th century inscription (stating editions of the work), and with a beautiful large, engraved armorial book-plate (Collection of Bryan Hall). First leaf with a larger damp-spot to lower part (not affecting any text). Otherwise a very nice copy with only some minor light marginal soiling, a small dampstain to lower inner corner of last ab. 8 leaves, far from affecting text, and a bit of light spotting to a few leaves towards the end. Beautiful large woodcut printer's device to last leaf. (1) f., 776 columns (i.e. 388 pp/ 194 ff.), (1 - colophon) f.‎

‎The rare 3rd edition of Hesychios' extremely important Greek dictionary, one of the most important works of philology and linguistics ever printed, this edition constituting the first Greek work to be printed in the famous Renaissance printing-city of Hagenau/Haguenau (in Alsace).The first edition of the work was printed by Aldus in Venice in 1514, and in 1520 a re-impression appeared. The present third edition, edited by Marcus Musurus and printed after the edition of 1514 of Aldus Manutius, constitutes the second re-impression of the work, but it is the first to be printed in Hagenau and the first by the notable printer Thomas Anshelm, who had settled in Haguenau in 1516, being the first to seriously rival Henry Gran here. Anshelm is regarded as one of the most important printers of what we now call the Humanist period of the Renaissance. All three editions are rare and important.Hesychios of Alexandria was a highly important grammarian and lexicographer, whose only surviving work is the present lexicon of unusual and obscure Greek words, the richest of its kind ever. It is assumed that the work was executed by Hesychios during the 5th century. The work is extraordinary in that it constitutes a huge and unique listing of peculiar Greek words and phrases, with explanations and often references to the originator or place of origin. As such, the work is of the greatest value to the both the student of Greek dialects as well as for the ongoing work of restoring the texts of classical authors, for which the present lexicon it still an indispensible tool. But Hesychios' work is not only of the utmost importance to Greek philology, it is also a main work in the study of lost languages and obscure non-Greek dialects (e.g. Thracian and ancient Macedonian). Furthermore, the work was instrumental in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, one of the most, if not THE most, important philological tasks ever. Only in the late 18th century did Jones determine the connection between the Indo-European languages, thereby founding comparative philology. Only a very corrupt manuscript, from the 15th century, of the work survives, and it is this manuscript that Marcus Musurus used as the basis for the first printing of the work by Aldus in 1514. As stated, two re-impressions (with modest corrections) appeared of this Aldus-edition (ours being the second), and since then no complete comparative edition of the manuscript has been published, bestowing on these three scarce early editions a huge importance. A modern edition of the seminal work has, however, been in intermittent publication since 1953. The editor of the last wolume states the following about Hesychios' Lexicon: ""Hesychius of Alexandria lived in the fifth century A.D. and compiled a dictionary of unusual or difficult Greek words with explanations in Greek. Approximately 51,000 entries make it the richest surviving Greek lexicon compiled until the invention of printing. It is of great importance to Ancient Greek studies because it contains countless words and expressions from poetry, administration, medicine, and so on, that are otherwise unknown or insufficiently explained. In particular, numerous words from the Greek dialects are important, not only for Greek but also for Indo-European philology.The Lexicon suffered substantial alterations, including abridgements and additions on its way from the author to the only surviving manuscript (fifteenth century). The production of an edition that gives all important information about the manuscript and the work of earlier scholars, as well as meeting modern requirements for the noting of parallels in other lexicographical works, is a slow and difficult task. Marcus Musurus published the first edition in 1514 (reprinted in 1520 and 1521 with modest revisions). There have since been many plans for an edition, but only four were started. Of the four editors, only one, M. Schmidt, lived long enough to finish the work himself. His edition (1858-68) is now completely out of date.A new edition was one of the most urgent requirements in Greek studies already when the German scholar KURT LATTE began preliminary work in the 1920s for the Danish Academy's Commission for Corpus Lexicographorum Graecorum. The project was severely hampered by the events of 1933-45. Volumes 1-2 were published in 1953 and (posthumously) 1966."" (Peter Allan Hansen, Editor of the final part of the great ongoing project of the new printing of the Hesychius-Lexicon)""Hesychius , (flourished 5th century ad), author of the most important Greek lexicon known from antiquity, valued as a basic authority for the dialects and vocabularies of ancient inscriptions, poetic text, and the Greek Church Fathers."" (British Encycl.).Though not of particular fame or importance today, the small city of Haguenau played a dominating role in the late 15th and the first half of the 16th century, then being one of the most important centres of printing. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a remarkably large number of books were issued from presses in this small town, located close to Strasbourg. Thomas Anshelm (fl. 1488-1522) is considered perhaps the most eminent of the early Hagenau printers. He established himself as a printer in Basle in 1485 but subsequently worked as a printer in Strasbourg (1488), Pforzheim (1500-1511), Tübingen (1511-1516), and finally Hagenau (1516-1522), having by then developed his printing technique to perfection.Graesse III:266‎

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‎"JAKOBSON, ROMAN.‎

‎Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze. - [THE RISE AND FALL OF LANGUAGES]‎

‎Uppsala, 1941. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Minor loss to upper and lower capital (ab. 1,5 cm to top and 4mm to bottom), and a tear, no loss, to back hinge. All in all a very fine copy of this fragile publication. No markings or soiling. Uncut and internally very fresh and clean. Old owner's name to front wrapper. (2), 83 pp.‎

‎The very scarce first edition, off-print (Ur: Språvetenskapliga Sällskapets i Uppsala Förhandlingar 1940-1942.), of Jakobson's monumental work, ""Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals"", in which the seminal linguist and founder of the Prague School presents a revolutionary theory about the underlying uniform structure of the world's languages. Roman Osipovich Jakobson (1896 - 1982) was a famous Russian linguist and literary critic, who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century. He is probably most famous as the pioneer of structural analysis of language and as the co-founder of structuralism.Jakobson was born into a Russian Jewish family. He early on showed a great interest in the theory of language, and already as a student he became a leading figure of the Moscow Linguistic Circle. He was very much influenced by Husserl's phenomenology and the work of Saussure, and he developed a deep interest in the question of how language, the human speech, functions and is possible.Due to political troubles in Russia, in 1920 Jakobsen moved to Prague, where he was to become even more influential. Here, in 1926, he co-founded the Prague School of linguistic theory, together with the Copenhagen School the most influential school of linguistics of its time and of decades to come. It is here that Jakobson develops his seminal ideas of phonology as well as the term structuralism and the contents of it.When the Second World War broke out, Jakobson moved to Scandinavia, where he met the Copenhagen School of linguistics and its main figure, Louis Hjelmslev. It is during his time in Scandinavia that he writes (in German) and published (in Uppsala, Sweden) his influential ""Kindersprache..."". Later he fled to America, where he met Claude Lévi-Strauss, Quine, Bloomfeld and many other important thinkers within the field of language theory.Jakobson's structuralist theories of language differentiate much from other parts of the structuralist movement in that he constantly bases them on knowledge from other sciences, from mathematics, philosophy, psychology etc.In the present work, Jakobson sets out to prove that child language and aphasia must be considered within comparative linguistics, because rules that govern these are the same as those that govern all human world languages. """"Die einzige Gelegenheit, die wir haben, die menschliche Sprache in statu nascendi zu beobachten bietet das Kind."" So schrieb vor kurzem Karl Bühler, und man könnte dementsprechend fortsetzen: ""Die einzige Gelegenheit, die wir haben, die menschliche Sprache im Abbau zu beobachten, bieten die pathologischen Sprachstörungen zentraler Natur."" Für den Linguisten, der sich mit dem Enfaltetsein des Sprachgebildes befasst, muss auch seine GEBURT und ABSTERBEN viel lehrreiches bieten. Diese drei Teilformen des sprachlichen Geschehens wurden trotzdem noch nicht einer systematischen vergleichenden Analyse unterzogen."" (p. (1)-2). (""""The only opportunity we have to observe the human language in statu nascendi is offered by the child."" So Karl Bühler wrote not long ago, and one could continue in the same manner: ""The only opportunity we have to observe the human language in disintegration is offered by the pathological language disturbances of central nature."" For the linguist, who is occupied with the turning out of the language formation, its BIRTH and DEATH must also contribute with something instructive. In spite of this, these three parts of the happening of language have not yet been subjected to a systematic comparative analysis."" -Own translation). Jakobson now formulated specific hypotheses about the order in which children acquire their native language and about the nature of language dissolution, creating an entirely new approach to the study of the world's languages. By linking observations about language typology, language acquisition and language pathology, Jakobson here presents an original, revolutionizing theory about the structure of the sound inventories that underlie the world languages. This approach to the study of the structure of sound and language was clearly ahead of its time, and phonology still did not have the sufficient empirical evidence or the sufficient instruments to properly verify it. Thus, only much later has Jakobsen's theories on the rise and fall of language been fully appreciated.‎

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‎RAHBEK, K.L.‎

‎Om den danske Stiil, et Forsøg.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Schultz, 1802. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt beskedent hldrbd. VIII,111,(1) pp. Bogen har tilhørt familien Sibbern (H.S. Sibbern og Gabriel Sibbern, F.C.Sibberns søn).‎

‎Originaltrykket.‎

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‎"[DAVY, CHARLES].‎

‎Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing. - [THE ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET]‎

‎London, Printed by T. Wright, for T. Cadell and P. Elmsly, 1772. 8vo. Contemporary full mottled calf with gilt line-borders to boards, gilt lines and gilt title-label to spine. Spine and corners worn, and hinges weak. Somewhat worn. A bit of brownspotting. Book plate of James Barlow to inside of front board. Engraved title-vignette, large engraved weapon to dedication-leaf, woodcut vignettes, large engraved vignette at beginning of text, 3 engraved plates (two of which folded), large engraved end-vignette. Alphabetic character-illustrations in the text. (4), IX, (1), 126, (1 - Hymn to Isis) pp.‎

‎Scarce first edition of this interesting work on the origin of the alphabet, in which Davy proposes important and original theories that are still considered interesting and useful today. Davy proposes the so-called ""articulatory iconicity"" as the approach to the explanation of the origin and development of the alphabet and tries to prove how a system of ""visible speech"" can be at the root of it all, along the lines of William Jones, who never made the practical suggestions of explanation that Davy did. The illustrations for Davy's account of the articulatory formation of the alphabetic characters are used in other works pertaining to the same subject and are considered a noteworthy attempt to explain this frequent subject for research and speculation.The plates depict Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Persian, Arabic, Coptic, Egyptian letters in comparison.‎

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‎CURTIUS, GEORGIUS.‎

‎Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie. 2 Theile. - [FUNDAMENTAL WORK ON THE THEORY OF LANGUAGE]‎

‎Leipzig, 1858-62. 8vo. Bound in one nice contemporary half calf with gilt spine. A bit of wear to capitals and hinges, and front hinge slightly cracked at bottom, otherwise fine. Minor occassional brownspotting. A small stamp to title-page. XIV, 371, (1) pp. + 1 folded plate" XVI, 398, (1 - errata) pp.‎

‎The scarce first edition of Curtius' magnum opus, a work of immense importance to the theory of the Greek language and one of the most important, influential, and useful works on the theory of language in general. ""Nach den Ansichten Aller, auch der Gegner, gehören diese ""Grundzüge"" zu den werthvollsten und nützlichsten Werken der Sprachwissenschaft überhaupt"" (Ernst Windisch in: Sebeok, Portraits of Linguists, I: p. 332).The work took Curtius about a decade to write, and the two volumes appeared with four years in between them. It is very rare to find any of the two volumes in the first edition, and both volumes in the first edition are almost never seen together. The work became immensely popular, and five editions appeared between this first and 1879. Georg Curtius (1820-1885) is one of the leading German classicists of all times. His writings were fundamental to the study of the Greek language and are among the most profound, influential and thorough ever written.Within the theory of language, one can hardly point to a work more generally influential than the present, which also excels in stringently and eloquently pointing out the connection between etymology and phonetics and proving that only through phonetics has etymology become a science.‎

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‎JOHNSON, ALEXANDER BRYAN.‎

‎A Treatise on Language. Edited, with a Critical Essay on His Philosophy of Language, by David Rynin.‎

‎Berkeley a. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1947. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Portrait as frontispiece. XI,443 pp., 2 facsimiles. A few leaves with notes.‎

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‎LOLLE, PEDER.‎

‎Samling af danske og latinske Ordsprog, optrykt efter den ældste Udgave af Aar 1506, og med Anmærkninger oplyst af R.Nyerup.‎

‎K., 1828. Ubeskåret i pænt nyere helshirtbd. XXVIII,404 pp. + Subskribentliste.‎

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‎SOUTER, ALEXANDER.‎

‎A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎

‎Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1949. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. XXX,454 pp.‎

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‎"MADVIG, JOH. NIKOLAI.‎

‎Kleine Philologische Schriften. Vom verfasser Deutsch bearbeitet.‎

‎Leipzig, H.G. Teubner, 1875. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Some wear along edges. VIII,560 pp. On fly-leaf: ""O. Siesbye/ Gabe des verfassers"". Internally clean.‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎"KIELHORN, F.‎

‎A Grammar of the Sanskrit Language.‎

‎Bombay, Government Central Book Depot, 1870. Orig. full cloth. part of printed titlelabel preserved. XV,260 pp. Internally clean and fine. On halftitle: ""With the Author's best Compliments""‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎"PSALTES, STAMATIOS B.‎

‎Grammatik der byzantinischen Chroniken.‎

‎Göttingen. Vandenhoeck & Roprecht, 1913 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Forschungen zur greischen und lateinischen Grammatik"". Stamp to verso of title-page, and the leather on front hindge loose, otherwise a fine copy. 394, (2) pp.‎

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‎SYV, PEDER. - THE FIRST DANISH GRAMMAR IN DANISH.‎

‎Den Danske Sprog=Kunst eller Grammatica samt et Tilheng, om dette Sprogs Skrive=rigtighed med videre Forklaring og Forsvar.‎

‎Kiøbenhaffn, Bockenhoffer, 1685. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt helpergament. Lille stempel på titelbladet. (14),116,82) pp. Enkelte gl. tilskrifter og understregninger. Et par ark svagt bruntonede, men et velbevaret eksemplar.‎

‎Originaludgaven af den første danske grammatik skrevet på modersmålet.Thesaurus II,675. - Bibl. Danica IV,62.‎

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‎"HÖST, GEORG‎

‎Efterretninger om Marókos og Fes, samlede der i Landene fra Ao.1760 til 1768. - [THE EARLIEST DESCRIPTION OF MOROCCAN-ARABIC DIALECT IN A EUROPEAN SOURCE]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], N. Möller, 1779. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Wear to extremities and capitals with repairs. Ex-libris pasted on to front free end-paper. Small vague dampstain to lower outer corner, affecting a few leaves. An overall very nice and clean copy. (20), 291, (24) + 34 engraved plates, several of them folded, and 1 frontispiece.‎

‎First edition of one of the very first detailed descriptions of North Africa and Morocco in particular, containing the earliest description of Moroccan-Arabic dialect in a European source by mentioning personal pronouns, some verbs and prepositions, genitive marker, present markers and euphemisms, together with comparisons between Moroccan and Classical Arabic. Containing detailed and accurate information about the history, geography, government, commerce, religion, culture and customs, it became one of the most important works for the study of Morocco in the eighteenth century, and it was quickly translated into German and French. Georg Hjersing Höst (1734-1794) was between 1760 and 1768 in Morocco, first in the service of the Danish-African Royal Company and later as vice consul of Denmark in Mogador (Essaouira).Schnurrer ""Biblioheca Arabica"", vide Nos. 125 a. 139.‎

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‎DANZ, JOHANN ANDREAS (+) MYLIUS, JOHANN CHRISTOPH.‎

‎Sive aditus Syriae reclusus compendiose ducens ad plenam linguae Syriacae antiochenae seu maroniticae cognitionem, iuxta viam literatoris ebraeo-chaldaei Danziani. Editio novissima innumeris.‎

‎Frankfurt, Hechtel Halle, 1751. 8vo. In a modest coard-board binding with marbled paper covered boards. Extremities with wear. Previous owner's name to pasted down front end-paper. Internally with light occassional brownspotting, otherwise a good copy. (12), 92 pp.‎

‎Later improved edition of this Latin-Syriac grammar.‎

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‎NOLDIUS, CHRISTIANUS.‎

‎Concordantiae particularum Ebraeo-Chaldaicarum‎

‎Hauniae (Copenhagen), Luft, 1679. 4to. In contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities with a few stains to back board. Internally very fine and clean. (10), 1210 pp. Pages misnumbered 2000 instead of 1200. Wanting the portrait.‎

‎First edition. Bibliateca Danica IV:81‎

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‎"MORIN, ESTIENNE.‎

‎Exercitationes de lingua primaeva ejusque appendicibus. - [ON THE EARLIEST LANGUAGE]‎

‎Ultrajecti (Utrecht), Gulielmum Broedelet, 1694. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Small worm-tract in inner margin, affecting app. 20 leaves, not affecting text. 1 plates detached and a few leaves with marginal dampstain. Overall a very nice and clean copy. (14), 448, (8) pp. + 4 plates and 1 frontispiece.‎

‎First edition of this linguistic work on the source and history of the first language, with a focus on Hebrew. The Dutch philologist Etienne Morin (1624–1700) utilizes the Augustinian thesis in his discussion of the primeval language: ""Quoting from Augustine (City of God xvi. 5 and 10), he maintains that the world always ought to be divided into two antithetical communities. Of these two, the patriarchs Shem and Heber belonged to the city of God, while the crowd of rebels who conspired at Babel embodied the city of man. Morin concludes that this proves that Shem could not possibly have taken part in the conspiracy at Babel. Augustine could not have put forward a better argument, he says. As the constant companion of true religion, the original language was preserved in the family and among the pious descendants of Heber who transmitted it as a legacy to those practising piety."" (Eskhult, Augustine and the Primeval Language in Early Modern Exegesis and Philology).‎

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‎MICHAELIS, JOHANN HEINRICH.‎

‎Erleichterte hebräische Grammatica oder, Richtige Anführung zur hebräischen Sprache: auf Begehren und um mehrern Nutzens willen bey der Jugend. Zum funftenmahl vermehret. (+) Erleichterte Chaldaische Grammatica. Editio Qvinta.‎

‎Halle, Friedrich Zeidlers Erben, 1723. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Crossed out names and doodles in contemporary hand to pasted down front end-paper. Small hole to title-page, but generally a good copy. (16), 335, (122), 121, (15) pp. + 3 folded tables.‎

‎Later editions of Michaelis highly popular grammars on Hebrew and Aramaic. Johann Davis Michaelis (1717-19) was a theologian and orientalist, whose fame today rests upon the fact that he was responsible for the first scientific expedition to Arabia Felix, namely that of Niebuhr. In 1753, he had come up with the idea for the the Royal Danish Arabia Expedition (1761-1767) and had gotten the Danish minister Bernstoff to agree to it. In 1760, when the expedition was becoming a reality, Michaelis recommended Niebuhr as a participant, and he outlined the entire purpose of the trip - namaly the list of 100 questions that he prepared and published for the members of the expedition, in order for them to answer in the course of the voyage. For all intents and purposes, Michaelis was the spiritual father of the Arabia-expedition. As a theologian and an orientalist, many of Michaelis' questions have root in the Bible. But unlike many other theolgians of the time, Michaelis sought to shed light over biblical themes through sources outside of the Bible - especially from the Middle East, not least Arabia. In this regard, his 100 Questions also came to be a precursor to the emergence of modern bible science.‎

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‎"HÖST, GEORG.‎

‎Efterretninger om Marókos og Fes, samlede der i Landene fra Ao.1760 til 1768. - [THE EARLIEST DESCRIPTION OF MOROCCAN-ARABIC DIALECT IN A EUROPEAN SOURCE]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], N. Möller, 1779. 4to. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities, corners bumped. Previous owner's name to upper margin of front free end-paper. Occassionally leaves split between quires. A few leaves miscoloured. An overall very nice and clean copy. (20), 291, (24) + 34 engraved plates, several of them folded and 1 frontispiece.‎

‎First edition of one of the very first detailed descriptions of North Africa and Morocco in particular, containing the earliest description of Moroccan-Arabic dialect in a European source by mentioning personal pronouns, some verbs and prepositions, genitive marker, present markers and euphemisms, together with comparisons between Moroccan and Classical Arabic. Containing detailed and accurate information about the history, geography, government, commerce, religion, culture and customs, it became one of the most important works for the study of Morocco in the eighteenth century, and it was quickly translated into German and French. Georg Hjersing Höst (1734-1794) was between 1760 and 1768 in Morocco, first in the service of the Danish-African Royal Company and later as vice consul of Denmark in Mogador (Essaouira).Schnurrer ""Biblioheca Arabica"", vide Nos. 125 a. 139.‎

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