‎Philology‎

‎"MÜNTER, FRIEDRICH. - DECIPHERING CUNEIFORM TEXTS.‎

‎Undersögelse om de persepolitanske Inscriptioner. (1.-) 2. Afhandling.‎

‎(København, Seidelin,1801). 4to. Uncut. No wrappers as issued in ""Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter"". Titlepage, pp. 253-292 + Titlepage, pp. 291-349 a. 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎First printing of 2 importent memoirs, as Münter here gives an importent contribution to the deciphering of cuneiform texts.‎

Bookseller reference : 50461

‎RAMSTEDT, G.J.‎

‎Kalmückisches Wörterbuch.‎

‎Helsinki, 1935. Small 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. XXX,560 pp. Internally clean.‎

‎(Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae III).‎

Bookseller reference : 50515

‎RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Locmani Sapientis Fabulæ 40. Recensuit et in usum prælectionum edidit.‎

‎Hafniæ, 1831. Samtidigt hshirtbd. Skindtitel på forpermen, forgyldt. 28,8 pp. Brunplettet.‎

‎Originaludgaven.‎

Bookseller reference : 50539

‎HJORT, PEDER.‎

‎Kortfattet Tydsk Sproglære til Brug for de første Begybdere især i Borger= og Pige=Skoler.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1828. Samtidigt hldrbd. 48 pp. Gl. ejernavn øverst på titelbladet. Indvendig ren.‎

‎Originaludgaven af Hjorts indflydelsrige tyske sproglære.‎

Bookseller reference : 50613

‎CAPPELLER, CARL.‎

‎Sanskrit-Wörterbuch. Nach den Petersburger Wörterbüchern bearbeitet. Neudruck,‎

‎Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1955. Lex8vo. Orig. full cloth. (6),541 pp. Clean and fine.‎

Bookseller reference : 50792

‎"BAYER, THEOPHILUS SIEGFRIED. - A PIONEER PAPER IN SINOLOGY.‎

‎Elementa Brahmica, Tangutana, Mungalica. T.S.B. (Theophilus Siegfried Bayer).‎

‎(Petropoli, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae, 1735). 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae"", Tomus IV ad Annum 1729. The whole section of ""Historica""offered. (2) pp. (title to the section),(100)pp. Baye's paper: (23) pp. (wrongly paginated) and 10 engraved plates with numerous, characters, letters etc.‎

‎First printing of a pioneer work in Sinology, the Chinese dialects etc.‎

Bookseller reference : 50855

‎MADVIG, JOHAN NICOLAI.‎

‎Latinsk sproglære til skolebrug.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1852. 8vo. Samtidigt halvlæderbind med rygforgyldning. Udvendig med slitage og indvendig med enkelte brunpletter. Tidligere ejers signatur på forsatsblad. (8), 518, (1) pp.‎

‎2. udgaven.‎

Bookseller reference : 50960

‎"JØRGENSEN, JØRGEN.‎

‎Instinkt, vane, fornuft.‎

‎København, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1949. 8vo. I de originale trykte røde omslag. Pænt eksemplar. 16 pp.‎

‎Trykt i ""Grundrids ved folkelig universitetsundervisning. Nr. 479.""‎

Bookseller reference : 51207

‎FRANZ, JOHANN.‎

‎Elementa Epigraphices Graecae.‎

‎Berlin, F. Nicolai, 1840. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Spine defective. Covers detached from spine. Stamps on titlepage. (10),400 pp., textillustrations in wodcut and 7 folded plates. Internally clean with a few annotations in old hand (Louis Ussing).‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 51430

‎JESPERSEN, OTTO.‎

‎Linguistica. Selected Papers in English, French and German.‎

‎Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard,1933. 4to. Orig. full cloth. (6),461 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 51725

‎"LAGERCRANTZ, ELIEL.‎

‎Sprachlere des Südlappischen nach der Mundart von Wefsen.‎

‎Kristiania, 1923. 4to. Orig. helshirt. XII,172 pp. helt frisk eksemplar.‎

‎""Kristiania Etnografiske Museum"", Bulletin 1.‎

Bookseller reference : 52290

‎MORGENSTIERNE, GEORG.‎

‎Notes on Phalura: An unknown Dardic language of Chitral. - [DOCUMENTING THE PALULA LANGUAGE]‎

‎Oslo, Jacob Dybwad, 1941. Royal8vo. Uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. Very fine and clean. 53 pp.‎

‎First appearance of Morgenstierne's important paper on the Palula language. Morgenstierne published his initial research in 1926 but this is the first extended paper that documents the Palula language. Palula (also spelled Phalura, Palola, Phalulo, and also known as Ashreti or Dangarikwar, the name used by Khowar speakers), is a Dardic language spoken by approximately 10,000 people in the valleys of Ashret and Biori, as well as in the village Puri (also Purigal) in the Shishi valley, and at least by a portion of the population in the village Kalkatak, in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.‎

Bookseller reference : 52309

‎"RENAN, ERNEST.‎

‎Vie de Jésus. - [PMM 352 - THE HISTORICAL CHRIST]‎

‎Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 1863. Royal 8vo. Bound in a nice contemporary red halfcalf with five raised bands to spine, with blindstamped borders to compartments. A very nice copy, also with the often lacking half-title (""Histoire des Origines du Christianisme. Livre premier""). (4), LIX, 462 pp. + (1) leaf (colophon).‎

‎True first edition of this seminal classic on the life of Jesus, which caused an immediate scandal when it appeared. Renan's masterpiece, which constitudes the first attempt to write a biography of Jesus the man and strongly puts forth the notion that the Bible too can be subject to historical investigation and critical scrutiny. The work enraged the Roman Catholic Church but was an immediate success in most of Europe. ""In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition. Renan regarded the book as the first of a series on the ""Origins of Christianity"", which he continued with ""The Apostles"" (1866), ""Saint Paul"" (1869), ""The Anti-Christ"" (1873), ""The Gospels"" (1877), ""The Christian Church"" (1879) and ""Marcus Aurelius"" (1881) but none of these emulated the success of the ""Life of Jesus""... Immediate success was partly a ""succès de scandale"" but this would not have kept the book alive. It is Renan's approach to the subject and his beautiful prose that gave it lasting eminence."" (PMM 352). This groundbreaking work analyses the personality of the man Jesus, -a figure created by Renan out of his mind but based on historical sources. ""It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle, albeit oracular visionary, his power to work miracles a part of his unique personality -the son of man, but not the Son of God... In this great work it seems clear that the audience he has found was the one he sought: the general reading public rather than the limited coterie of scholars"" and there is no doubt of the fact or the degree of his success."" (PMM 352). ""C'est le livre plus célèbre d'Ernest Renan (1823-1892) et le premier volume de l'Hisoire des origines du Christianisme""... on peut considérer cette ""Vie de Jésus"" comme une oeuvre de vulgarisation: l'auteur cherche à déterminer ce qui, au point de vue ""scientifique"", est de créance dans la vie du Nazaréen?"" (Laffont-Bompiani IV:681). Apart from causing a world-wide scandal, the work was also a world-wide success, and no matter how many harsh words can be said about the historical and religious contents of the work, there is no doubt about the fact that it influenced the destiny of Catholocism decisively and that it is a masterpiece of 19th century French literature. It is very elegantly written and is renowned for its description of the historical setting, charming descriptions of sceneries, its penetrating psychological analysis and its overall style and class. ""Il faut ajouter que la ""Vie de Jésus"" compte au nombre des livres les mieux écrits de son temps"" le charme de la peinture des paysages, le pittoresque géneralement exact des évocations historiques, l'analyse pénétrante de l'âme des personnages, des seductions du style enfin, n'ont pas été pour rien dans le succès universel de cette oeuvre."" (Laffont-Bompiani IV:681). Ernest Renan (1823-1892) was a French philologist, philosopher and historian. His father died when he was aged five, and his mother wanted him to become a priest. Until he was about 16 years old, he was trained by the Church, but due to his investigative and truth-seeking nature as well as his studies (e.g. Hebrew), he was in doubt as to the historical truth of the Scriptures, and with the help of his sister he chose his own path in life. ""He studied intensively the languages of the Bible and filled a number of minor academic positions, frequently encountering difficulties because of the heterodoxy and outspokenness of his religious opinions."" (Printing and the Mind of Man 352). In 1840 he began studying philosophy and later philology, in 1847 he took his degree as Agrégé de Philosophie and became master at the Lycée of Vendome. After having returned from a mission to Italy in the year 1850 where he gathered material for his historical-philosophical masterpiece, ""Averroës et l'Averroisme"", he was offered employment at the ""Bibliothèque Nationale"" (at the manuscript department). In 1861 he was chosen to become professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France, but because the emperor refused to ratify the appointment (inspired by the Clerical party), he was not established in the chair untill 1870. In 1878 he was elected for the Academy. Renan is considered a scolar of the greatest excellence and an impressive writer.‎

Bookseller reference : 52490

‎"MACKENZIE, D.N.‎

‎The Dialect of Awroman (Hawraman-I- Luhon). Grammatical sketch, texts, and vocabulary.‎

‎Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1966. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. frontwrapper a bit frayed. Stamps on title-page. 141 pp. In ""Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter"".‎

Bookseller reference : 52706

‎INGELIUS, GUSTAF EDVARD.‎

‎Froissart såsom Krönikeskrifvare Academisk Afhandling, med den vidtberömda Historisk-Philologiska Facultetens vid Kejserliga Alexanders-Universitet i Finland samtycke, utgifven af Gustaf Edvard Ingelius.‎

‎Helsingfors, Frenckell & Son, 1854. 8vo. Ubekåret i de originale trykte omslag omslag. Ex-librisstempel på indersiden af foromslag. Pænt eksemplar. 127 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 52888

‎STANG, CHR. S.‎

‎Die altrussische Urkundensprache der Stadt Polozk.‎

‎Oslo, Dybwad, 1939. 8vo. Uncut, unopnened in the original printed wrappers. Wrappers with a few tears and nicks, otherwise a fine copy. 148 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 53006

‎MELLANI, GIOVANNI.‎

‎Nuovo Saggio analitico - filosofico per istruire agevolmente la gioventù nelle due Lingue Italiana, e Latina.‎

‎Rom, Poggiolo, 1803. Orig. blank boards. Uncut and unopened. 138 pp., 2 folded tables. A faint dampstain to the first few leaves in upper margin and on frontboard. Scattered brownspots.‎

Bookseller reference : 53437

‎"DERRIDA, JACQUES.‎

‎De la grammatologie. - [THE MAIN WORK OF DECONSTRUCTION]‎

‎(Paris), Minuet, 1967. 8vo. Original wrappers. A very nice and clean copy with a slightly soiled spine. A bump to fore-edge. 445, (3) pp.‎

‎First edition (20 Septembre, 1967, numéro 630) of Derrida's seminal main work, the foundational text for deconstructive criticism.1967 marks a turning point in the history of modern philosophy, constituting the birth of ""Deconstruction"". In this one year, Derrida publishes all of his three break-through books, ""De la grammatologie"", ""L'écriture et la difference"" and ""La Voix et le phenomene"", profoundly altering the course of modern thought. Although all three books are responsible for the introduction of Deconstruction, it is primarily ""De la Grammatologie"", Derrida's magnum opus, that has come to be associated with this groundbreaking concept.""Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960's, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in ""De la grammatologie"" sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy..."" (Review, Spivak's translation of Derrida's ""Of Grammatology"", 1997).Derrida's concern is to bring to light the binary schema that is hidden in all kinds of texts and ideas of culture. In the present text Derrida brilliantly reveals some of the principles of deconstruction, not through theoretical explication, but, rather, by demonstration, showing that the arguments promulgated by their subject-matter exceed and contradict the oppositional parameters in which they are situated. Put into other words, deconstruction seeks to expose, and then to subvert, the various binary oppositions that undergird our dominant ways of thinking.The ideas that Derrida here present have had an enormous impact on a number of the human sciences, including psychology, literary theory, cultural studies, linguistics, feminism, sociology and anthropology. Due to this work, a whole new world of problematic suppression and marginalisation has become apparent, making ""De la grammatologie"" one of the most important philosophical works of the later part of the 20th century. ""One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy"". (J. Hillis Miller, Yale University).‎

Bookseller reference : 53761

‎"SYV, PEDER.‎

‎Aldmindelige Danske Ord=Sproge og korte Lærdommes Første og anden Deel. Med Underviisning om dem og Tilheng af nogle sære og gamle Ordsproge, saa og Register paa Titlerne og de Gamle, samt sjelden forekommende Ord. Og derforuden Rets og Rettergangs Re...‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Christian Geertsen, (1682 -) 1688. Lille 8vo. Nær samtidigt hellæderbind af spejlbindstypen. Smal forgyldt rullebort, blindtryk i rammerne. Ryg fornyet med bevaring af den rig forgyldte ryg. Rygforgyldningen noget slidt. Senere forgyldt skindtitel. Gl. ejernavne på titelblad og fribladet. Ganske velbevaret eksemplar, lettere brugsspor, lidt spredte brunpletter, lettere bruntoning.‎

‎Originaludgaven af dette hovedværk i dansk sproghistorie. Her med titeloplagets nye fællestitelblad. Første del udkom 1682 og anden del 1688. Sammen med udgivelsen af anden del blev der som her trykt et nyt titelblad til begge dele, men første del har stadig trykåret 1682 i kolofonen.""Hovedværker i dansk litteratur blev hans to store udgiverarbejder. 1682-88 udkom Aldmindelige Danske Ord-Sproge og korte Lærdomme, 1-2, hvor Syv fra danske og europæiske, håndskrevne og trykte kilder har samlet og emneordnet omkring 15.000 ordsprog, talemåder o.l. Her mødes hele den ældre danske skriftlige ordsprogstradition, og her er hovedkilden til de mange senere samlinger af ordsprog fra dansk skriftlig overlevering.""(Den Store Danske).Bibl. Dan. IV,504. - Thesaurus II, 674.Hovedværker i dansk litteratur blev hans to store udgiverarbejder. 1682-88 udkom Aldmindelige Danske Ord-Sproge og korte Lærdomme, 1-2, hvor Syv fra danske og europæiske, håndskrevne og trykte kilder har samlet og emneordnet omkring 15.000 ordsprog, talemåder o.l. Her mødes hele den ældre danske skriftlige ordsprogstradition, og her er hovedkilden til de mange senere samlinger af ordsprog fra dansk skriftlig overlevering.‎

Bookseller reference : 54381

‎REINHOLD, F.‎

‎Allgemeine Wörterbuch der deutschen un französischen Kriegs=Kunst=Sprache. Ein Handbuch für den practischen Offizier. 2 Theile. (Deutscher Theil - Französischer Theil). 2 Bde.‎

‎Kopenhagen, Leipzig und Darmstadt, 1827-30. 2 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-pages. (8),188(6),290 pp. A few scatered brownspots.‎

Bookseller reference : 56030

‎VILSOËT, CONSTANT.‎

‎Nouveau Dictionnaire de Marine contenant les Termes de Navigation, D'Architecture Navale, D'Artillerie, de Corderie et de Commerce. Francais-Danois et Danois-Francais.‎

‎Copenhaque, Behrend, 1830. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine.Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A crack in upper joint. Stamp on title-page. (10),191,(3) pp. Scattered browning and brownspots.‎

Bookseller reference : 56319

‎GRIMM, WILHELM CARL.‎

‎Ueber deutsche Runen. Mit eilf Kupfertafeln.‎

‎Göttingen, Dieterischen Buchhandlung, 1821. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A small crack in leather at upper compartment. IV,326,(2) pp., 11 folded engraved plates. On good paper. Clean and fine.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 56654

‎SYV, (PEDER PEDERSEN). P.P.‎

‎Nogle Betenkninger om det Cimbriske Sprog.‎

‎Kiöbenh(avn), Uden trykker, 1663. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt hellæderbind. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titelfelt. Skindet krakeleret ved forreste fals således, at bogen er lidt løs, men forpermen sidder stadig fast. Kobberstukket titelblad, der foruden titlen har 11 felter med forskellige fyndord. (10), 200 pp. Titelkobberet med et hul i titellfeltet med tab af nogle bogstaver. Lille hul i de første 2 blade med tab af få bogstaver. De 4 sidste blade med reparation af øverste højre hjørner. De 2 sidste blade med større brunplet. Nogle få spredte brunpletter.‎

‎Originaludgaven af det første danske forsøg på en sammmenlignende sprogvidenskab.The very rare first edition of the first Danish work of comparative linguistics and the first Danish work on comparative history of literature. The work is of seminal importance to the development of the Danish language as the accepted official and written language of Denmark.Bibl. Danica IV,60. - Thesaurus II,677.‎

Bookseller reference : 56674

‎BOPP, FRANZ.‎

‎Kritische Grammatik der Sanskrita-Sprache in kürzerer Fassung.‎

‎Berlin, Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1834. Contemp. marbled boards. titlelabel with gilt lettering. (titlelabel a bit worn). light wear along edges. Spine a bit rubbed. XII,380 pp. Internally clean.‎

‎First edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 56692

‎CHAMPOLLION, M. le jeune.‎

‎Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens ou recherches sur les élémens premiers de cette écriture sacrée, sur leurs diverses combinaisons, et sur les rapports de ce système avec les autres méthodes graphiques égyptiennes. Avec un volume ... - [THE FINDING OF A LOST LANGUAGE]‎

‎Paris, Chez Treuttel et Würtz, 1824. Lex 8vo. Both volumes bound completely uncut in one near contemporary brown half calf with ornametal spine. A bit of wear to capitals, corners, and hinges. Occasional brownspotting. Overall a very nice copy. (Text-vol.:) (4), XVI, 410, (4, - 1 blank leaf + 1 leaf of book binder instructions) pp. + 16 plates, some folded" (2), 45 pp. + 32 plates (numbered 1-21 and A-K). Complete in two vols. w. all 38 lithographed plates.‎

‎Very rare first edition of the work in which the deciphering of the hieroglyphs was fully presented for the first time. In 1822 Champollion had read his ""Lettre a M. Dacier"" before the Academie des Inscriptions, and for the first time presented the key to reading hieroglyphs. His monumental work ""Précis du système hiéroglyphique"" appeared two years later, and in this richly illustrated work he presents his definitive, expanded analysis, and finally corrects the misleading mistakes of the other Egyptologists, counting also Thomas Young. Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832), the father of Egyptology, is credited with actually deciphering the inscription on the famous Rosetta Stone, translating it, and breaking the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphic script"" he is therefore accepted as the founder of Scientific Egyptology, -a title primarily justified with the publication of this work.The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 by French Troops and was immediately brought to England, where it has been ever since. The stone was (and is) of the utmost importance to the understanding of the Egyptian language, the principles of which were totally unknown up to this point. Because the hieroglyphic inscription on the stone is accompanied by a Greek and a Demotic one with the same contents, Champollion was able to crack the code of the hieroglyphs and to read a language that had not been read for far more than a millennium. Champollion was an extraordinary philologist, who, by the age of sixteen, besides Greek and Latin, mastered six ancient Middle Eastern languages, among these Coptic, the knowledge of which, unlike that of Egyptian, was never lost. As the first, Champollion realized the connection between the Coptic and the Egyptian language, and was able to identify many of the Egyptian words on the Rosetta Stone, as he could read them with their Coptic equivalents. He was the first to believe that both Demotic and hieroglyphs represented symbols, and not sounds as earlier presumed. After that he quickly realized that each single hieroglyph could represent a sign, and he began compiling a hieroglyphic alphabet. In his ""Précis du système hiéroglyphique"" he could finally, in 1824, prove that the glyphs represented sounds as well as concepts, according to context. Champollion is the constructor of our present code of the hieroglyphic alphabet. ""Further study enabled him to discover the values of a number of syllabic hieroglyphic signs, and to recognize the use of hieroglyphs as determinatives. In cases where the Greek text supplied him with the meaning of hieroglyphs of which he did not know the phonetic values, his knowledge of Coptic enabled him to suggest values which he found subsequently to be substantially correct. Further reference to determinatives and the importance of parallel passages and texts will be made later on in his work. Between 1822-24 CHAMPOLLION worked incessantly, and was enabled to modify much of his earlier views, and to develop his Alphabet, -and he evolved some rudimentary principles of Egyptian Grammar. The results of his studies at this period he published in his ""Précis du Système Hiéroglyphique"", Paris, 1824, wherein he took special pains to inform his readers that his system had nothing whatever to do with that of Dr. YOUNG."" (Wallis Budge, The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, pp. 224-25). ""... Ces mémoires réunis formèrent le grand ouvrage publié aux frais de l'Etat en 1824 sous le titre ""Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens"", didié au roi."" (N.B.G. Vol. 9, p. 650).‎

Bookseller reference : 56716