‎Philologie‎

‎"JONES, WILLIAM.‎

‎On the Hindu's. [In: Asiatic Researches or, Transaction of the Bengal Asiatic Society]. - [FOUNDING COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY - PMM 235]‎

‎(Calcutta, Printed and sold by Manuel Cantopher, and sold at London by P. Elmsly, 1788). 4to. Extracted and bound in a recent vey nice marbled dark blue paper-binding w. matching gilt burgundy leather title-label to front board. A very nice and clean copy. Pp. 415-431‎

‎The seminal first edition of this groundbreaking paper which determined the connection between the Indo-European languages and thereby founded comparative philology and Indo-European studies. ""This slim paper read to the Bengal Asiatic Society and published in its ""Transaction"" marks a turning-point in the history of linguistics and signaled the birth of comparative philology."" (PMM 235).Sir William Jones (1746-1794) was an English philologist and judge who was stationed in India in 1780. He is the founder of the Asiatic Society and now famous as the discoverer and propounder of the existence of a relationship between the Indo-European languages. As he was stationed in India, he set out to master the ancient Sanskrit language, among other things in order to study native Indian law codes, which were written in this language. Due to his excellent language skills and his already perfect mastering of Greek and Latin, Jones discovered a shocking similarity between the languages in a huge number of words. By this discovery of the connection between Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, Jones had, without realizing it initially, discovered what was to be known as proto-Indo-European, -the lost mother tongue of almost all European, Indian and Russian languages as well as some Middle Eastern ones. And thus, with this breakthrough work, Jones, for the first time in history, presents man with the fact that there exists one single, ancient, prehistoric language that led to the development of numerous languages in Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East. It was to take subsequent scholars almost a decade to uncover what exactly this language was, but because of Jones' founding of comparative philology, the likes of Karl Verner and Jakob Grimm have been able to do this.The passage, for which Jones is most famous comes from the present work and has gone down in history as the single most important passage within the literature pertaining to comparative philology: ""The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure" more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit" and the old Persian might be added to the same family."" With these words, linguistics had witnessed a turning-point that was to change this science for ever and that was furthermore to point in the direction of a future understanding of the common heritage that much of mankind possesses. ""In 1786 Jones made his epoch-making discovery between the Sanskrit, Gothic, Greek and Latin languages -to which he later, erroneously, thought he could add Egyptian. His clear understanding of the basic principles of scientific linguistics provided the foundation on which Rask, Bopp and Grimm built the imposing structure of Indo-European studies."" (PMM 235).‎

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‎"JAKOBSON, ROMAN.‎

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

‎Uppsala, 1941. 8vo. Bound in a recent full blue cloth w. printed paper title to front board. A bit of creasing to title-page and remains of cloth strip to hinge of title-page. Otherwise nice and clean, w. some marginal notes, all in light pencil. Old owner's name to title-page (J.A. Joffe). (2), 83 pp.‎

‎The very scarce first edition 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. He here, in 1926, 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 it is the same rules that govern these 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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‎"VOLTAIRE, (F.M.A. de).‎

‎Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton. Contenant la Metaphysique, la Théorie de la Lumiere, & celle du Monde. Nouvelle Edition.‎

‎A Londres (but Paris), no printer, 1744. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf, raised bands, richly gilt back. Previous owners stamp on tp. Engraved portrait (Newton), engraved titlevignette, VIII,5-12,(1-)232,209-471,(4) pp. The text is complete and continous despite the odd pagination. Having 8 engraved plates (1 folding) and many textengravings. A few leaves with contemporary marginal notes. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎Second or third edition, a contrefacon not printed in London, but in Paris. ""Voltaires's importence for the history of science lies particularly in his having composed a famous popularization of Newton, Élemens de la philosophie de Nrwton (1738), while also collaborating with his companion and mistress, Émilie, marquise de Chatelet, on her translation of the Principia into French, and more generally in his having referred, with the lightness of touch that made him a serious critic of the human condition, his moral philosophy to what he took to be Newtonian, and hence a correct account of physical reality."" (DSB XIV:p.83), The work has been called one of the most beautifull illustrated scientific works at all.- This edition not in Gray's Bibliography.‎

Référence libraire : 38273

‎LANGHE, R.. DE.‎

‎Les Textes de Ras Shamra-Ugarit et leurs apports à l'Historie des Origines israélites.‎

‎Bruges, Bryart & Louvain, Bibliothèque de l'Université, 1939. Extrait des Ephemerides Theologicae Louvanienses, Tome XVI, 1939, p. 245-327.‎

‎Bulletin d'histoire et d'exégèse de l'ancien Testament. Fasc. 7.‎

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‎BUTTMANN, PHILIPP.‎

‎Griechische Grammatik Achtzehnte, verbesserte Auflage.‎

‎Berlin, Myliussche Verlagsbuchhandl., 1849. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt but somewhat rubbed. Stamps on titlepage. (2),522 pp.‎

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‎TÖNGES, KONRAD.‎

‎Lebenserscheinungen und Verbreitung des deutschen Märchens.‎

‎Giessen, Verlag von Münchowsche Unversitäts-Druckerei Otto Kindt , 1937. Orig. printed wrappers. 98 pp. + 1 folded map.‎

‎(Gießener Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie, 56).‎

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‎SHELLABEAR, W.G.‎

‎Malay-English Vocabulary. Containing over 7000 Malay Words or Phrases with their English equivalents, together with an Appendix of Household, Nautical and Medical Terms etc. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged.‎

‎Singapore, Methodist Publishing House, 1912. Orig. full cloth, hinges loose, front board stained. XII, 157 pp.‎

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‎SCHÜTTE, GUDMUND.‎

‎Gotthiod und Utgard. Altgermanische Sagengeographie in neuer Auffassung. I-II.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Aschehoug Dansk Forlag, 1935-36. Orig.bogtrykt omslag, uopskåret. (12),+ 336 (12),+ 372 pp. Illustreret.‎

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‎FEILBERG, H.F.‎

‎En Kaargild. En Samling Fortællinger, Æventyr, Remser i jydske Folkemaal.‎

‎Aarhus 1897. Smukt privat marmoreret papirbind med skindtitelfelt, originalt for-og bagomslag medindbundet. 91 s.‎

‎1. udgave.‎

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‎MOLEMA, H.‎

‎Wörterbuch der Groningschen Mundart im neunzehnten Jahrhundert.‎

‎Norden & Leipzig, Soltau, 1888. Later half cloth. VIII, 583 pp.‎

‎Wörterbücher. Herausgegeben vom Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung. Band III.‎

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‎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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‎MIKKELSEN, KR.‎

‎Dansk Ordföjningslære. Med sproghistoriske Tillæg. Håndbog for viderekomne og lærere. Fotografisk optryk af originaludgaven fra 1911.‎

‎Kbhvn. 1975. Orig. helshirt. 800 pp.‎

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‎BRØNDAL, VIGGO.‎

‎Substrater og Laan i Romers og Germansk. Studier i Lyd- og Ordhistorie.‎

‎K., 1917. Hshirt. (Disp.). 215 pp. St.p.t.‎

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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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‎HJORT, PEDER.‎

‎Den tydske Grammatik for ansktalende. Indrettet til Brug saavel i Skoler som ved fortsat eget Studium. Andet omarbeidede Oplag.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1827. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt helshirtbd. med blindtrykte dekorationer på permer. XIV,166,(2) pp.‎

Référence libraire : 42250

‎PIPPING, HUGO.‎

‎Om Runinskrifterna på de nyfunna Ardre-Stenarna.‎

‎Uppsala, (1901). Privat marmoreret papbd. de orig. omslag medindbundet. Rygtitel i skind. 69,III pp. samt 9 plancher.‎

‎(Skrifter utg. af K. Hum. Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. VII.3.).‎

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‎"JAKOBSON, ROMAN.‎

‎Remarques sur l'évolution phonologique du russe comparée à celle des autres langues slaves. - [PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎Prague, Jednota Ceskoslovenskych Matematiku a Fysiku, 1929. 8vo. Uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers. A bit of minor chipping and bending to extremities. A very nice copy. 118, (2, -blank) pp.‎

‎The rare first edition of one of the most important early works by the pioneer of the structural analysis of language and one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century, with presentation-inscription for one of the leading French linguists of the period: ""A Mr J. Vendryes, homage respectueux del'auteur"" on the title-page. The work constitutes the starting point of a new approach in linguistics and phonology.The work was published as No. 2 of the foundational ""Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague"", the publication from the seminal Prague School of Linguistics, of which Jakobsen was a founder. The Prague School held its first international conference, of Slavic linguists, in 1929. Here Jakobson presented his research on the phonological evolution of Russian and other Slavic languages, which had led him to conclude that there was a correlation between the description of sound systems and the explanation of their evolution. ""He identified the phoneme as the minimal unit of language capable of discriminating word meanings and viewed the phoneme as an indivisible atom. These advances constituted the starting point of a new approach in linguistics and phonology, according to which each language is distinguished from all others by its phonemic system, that is, by the inclusion or omission of particular phonemes available to human speech."" (American National Biography). The work is fundamental for Jakobson's development of a universal structural-functional theory of phonology, which was the first successful theory of its kind in accordance with Saussurean hypotheses. The concept of the phoneme that Jakobson had reached became a fundamental element of linguistic theory and came to greatly affect scientific descriptions and analyses of language. 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. Early on, he 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, which, together with the Copenhagen School, was 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. Among his most important works from this period is his present work in which he compares the phonological evolution of the Russian language to that of other Slavic languages, a foundational work for the development of his theories on the structure and function of language.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. 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., and as such, Jakobson's theories are among the most influential and wide-ranging in the history of linguistics, as they come to also affect and profoundly influence several other scientific fields.Joseph Vendryes (1875-1960) was a much respected and quite influential French linguist specialized in Celtic languages. He was involved with the standardization and presentation of the universal language Interlingua.‎

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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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‎TOBLER, ADOLF.‎

‎Vermischte Beiträge zur Französischen Grammatik, durchsesehen und verm. 1.-5. Reihe.‎

‎Lpz., 1921-12. 5 orig.full cloth. Top of spines slightly worn.‎

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‎"RÉTHY, ANDREA.‎

‎Lingua Universalis communi omnium nationum usui accommodata. - [UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE]‎

‎Viennae, Typis Antonii Strauss, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary blue marbled boards. Wear to capitals and corners. Internally very nice and clean. 144 pp.‎

‎The scarce first edition. with a signed presentation-inscription to front free end-paper: ""In/ perennem antiquae amicitiae T(? -I? - J?)esseram/ Andreas Rethy"", of this interesting attempt at a universal language by the Hungarian professor of Greek.The work, which was published more than half a decade before Esperanto and Volapük appeared, constitutes a ""Dictionary"" with words and their Latin translations - divided into 9 ""Classis"" that are sub-divided into nouns, verbs, and adverbs.‎

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‎"CURTIUS, GEORGIUS.‎

‎De Nominum Graecorum formatione. Linguarum, Cognatarum ratione habita. + Festrede in Namen der Georg-Augusts-Universität zur Akademischen Preisvertheilung am IV. Juni 1864 gehalten von Dr. Ernst Curtius. + Herrn Professor Dr. Friedrich Haase wünschen ... - [CURTIUS' FIRST WORK]‎

‎Berlin, Dümmler, 1842 + Göttingen, (o.J.) + Breslau, 1863. 4to. Contemporary full cloth w. gilt spine. Some brownspotting, bue to the paper quality. VI, (2), 62 pp + 1 folded plate (""Tabula in quae praecipua suffixa comparantur, quibus sanscrita, graeca, latinaque, lingua in formandis ex radice nominibus utuntur""). + 23 pp. + 27 pp.‎

‎The very rare first edition of Curtius' first work, in which he is the first to deal properly and scientifically with the formation of the nominal stem in classical Greek.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. He is primarily remembered for his magnum opus, ""Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie"", which counts as one of the most important and influential works on the theory of language.‎

Référence libraire : 44025

‎MEYER, CARL.‎

‎Sprache und Sprachdenkmäler der Langobarden. Quellen, Grammatik, Glossar.‎

‎Paderborn, Ferdinand Schöningh, 1877. Later hcloth. (6),310 pp. Clean and fine.‎

‎First edition. Not reprint.‎

Référence libraire : 44033