‎Philologie‎

‎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).‎

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‎MÜNTER, FRIEDRICH.‎

‎Versuch über die keilförmigen Inschriften zu Persepolis. Mit Kupfern.‎

‎Kopenhagen, Prost, 1802. Contemp. marbled boards. Nicks to spine. Uncut. (6),148 pp., 3 (of 4) engraved plates. Inscribed to the the Portugese ambassador, Commandeur Souza, in Paris. On good paper.‎

‎First edition in bookform of Münter's importent contribution to the deciphering of the cuneiform texts of Persepolis.‎

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‎"SCHLEGEL, FRIEDRICH. - COINING THE TERM ""COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR"".‎

‎Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier. Ein Beitrag zur Begründung der Alterthumskunde. nebst metrischen Uebesetzüngen indischer Gedichte.‎

‎Heidelberg, Mohr und Zimmer, 1808. Contemp pink boards. Gilt titlelabels on spine. Lacks a bit of coverpaper on top of spine. Wear to spine ends and along edges. XVI,324 pp. Faint scattered brownspots.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Schlegel's work on the grammatical connections between Sanskrit and the Indo-European languages. It represents an important moment in the development of the study of comparative grammar, a term which Schlegel himself coined in the text.‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS KRISTIAN.‎

‎Vejledning til det Islandske eller gamle Nordiske Sprog.‎

‎København, Schubothes Forlag - J.R. Thiele, 1811. 8vo. Bound in a slightly worn contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Gilt title to spine. Edges worn. Brownspotted. LVI,282,(6) pp.‎

‎First edition of Rask's seminal first work, ""the first of an important series of publications which qualify Rask as one of the founders of modern science of language."" (PMM 266). The work constitutes the first thorough treatise of the Icelandic language. Hjelmslev I, 12" Fiske I, 482.‎

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‎"RASK, R. (RASMUS) K.‎

‎Angelsaksisk Sproglære tilligemed en kort Læsebog.‎

‎Stockholm, Wiborgs Forlag, Hedmanske Bogtrykkeri, 1817. Samtidigt hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt titeletiket. (8),44,168 pp. samt 1 kobberstukket planche. Få svage brunpletter.‎

‎Originaludgaven af dette betydningfulde arbejde ""ved hvilken han i Virkeligheden grundlægger det videnskabelige Studium af dette Sprog.""(Vilh. Thomsen). - Rask Bibliografi I,23.‎

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‎RASK, RASMUS. - A FOUNDING WORK IN NORDIC PHILOLOGY.‎

‎Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller islandske Sprogs Oprindelse. Et af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers=Selskab kronet Prisskrift.‎

‎Kjöbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1818. Smukt senere hldrbind med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. XII,312 pp., 1 planche. Rent velbevaret eksemplar på trykpapir.‎

‎Originaludgaven af Prisskriftet, Rasks hovedværk, og et grunlæggende arbejde i Nordisk Sprogvidenskab.First edition of Rask's main work, a founding work in Nordic Philology as he was the first to study the ancient Nordic languages systematically and discovered the correspondance of consonant relations between the Indo-European languages which led Jacob Grimm to formulate the rules underlying the Germanic as well as the High-German sound-shifts.Rask Bibliografi I,24. - Fiske I,482.‎

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‎RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Über das Alter und die Echtheit der Zend-Sprache und des Zend-Avesta, und Herstellung des Zend-Alphabets nebst einer Übersicht des gesammten Sprachstammes" übersetzt von Friedr. Heinrich von der Hagen. Mit einer Schrifttafel.‎

‎Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1826. 8vo. Uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers. Spine neatly restored with matching marbled paper. Stamps to verso of title page. Scattered brownspots. VIII,80 pp. + 1 engraved folded plate.‎

‎First German edition of Rask's important treatise ""Om Zendsprogets og Zendavestas Ælde og Ægthed"", published same year as the Danish edition. Hjelmslev I, 96.‎

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‎RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Italiænsk Formlære, udarbejdet efter samme Plan som den spanske Sproglære.‎

‎København, Schultz, 1827. Samtidigt hldrbd. Slid ved øverste kapitæl. Hjørner stødte. Forgyldt rygtitel. 12,74,(1) pp. Gennemstukket med hvide blanke blade (skrivepapir). Eksemplar på skrivepapir.‎

‎Originaludgaven. - Rask Bibliografi I,101.‎

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‎RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Frisisk Sproglære udarbejdet efter samme Plan som den islandske og angelsaksiske.‎

‎København, Beeken, 1825. 8vo. Bound in a beautiful contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Gilt title label to spine. Few scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. (4),34,138 pp.‎

‎First edition of Rask's Frisian grammar. Hjelmslev I, 63.‎

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‎RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Frisische Sprachlehre, bearbeitet nach dem nämlichen Plane, wie die Isländische und Angelsächsische. Aus dem Dänischen übersetzt, und mit einem Vorwort über die Wichtigkeit des Sprachstudiums für eine gründliche Forschung im Gebiet der Rechts- und Sta...‎

‎Freiburg im Brsg., Wagner, 1834. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Gilt title to spine. Spine rubbed. Scattered brownspots. XXVII,(1),124 pp.‎

‎First German edition. Hjelmslev I, 204.‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Spansk Sproglære efter en ny Plan. - [PRESENTATION COPY.]‎

‎København, Beekens Forlag, 1824. 8vo. Uncut in the original gift cardboard binding covered in green glazed paper. Tears and loss of paper to spine. Book block split in two. Printed on good paper, internally clean. Inscribed by Rask to inside of front board: ""Højvelbårne Hr. Etatsråd / Notarius Publicus Olsen / ærbødigst / fra / Forfatteren"". The inscription is later crossed out, presumably by Rask. 22,226 pp.‎

‎Beautiful presentation copy of the first edition of Rask's Spanish grammar, presumably inscribed to Gottsche Hans Olsen (1760-1829) although he probably never received the copy. Hjelmslev I, 49.‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Kort Anvisning till Fornnordiska Språket. Öfversättning med några förändringar och tillägg. (Bound with 'Jomsvikinga Saga, oversat af Carl Christian Rafn', København, 1824).‎

‎Lund, Berlingska, 1838. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary blue cardboard binding with handwritten title label. Wear to capitals and edges of spine. Brownspotted. (2),IV,112 pp.‎

‎First Swedish and slightly revised edition of Rask's ""Kortfattet Vejledning til det oldnordiske eller gamle islandske Sprog"", first published in 1832. Hjelmslev I, 214.‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Singalesisk Skriftlære. - [IDENTIFYING THE RELATION BETWEEN SINHALESE AND SANSKRIT.]‎

‎Kolombo (Colombo, Sri Lanka), 1821. 8vo. Original blank blue wrappers. Insignificant wear to edges of wrappers. Light toning, but a fine copy. (2),16 pp.‎

‎First (and only) edition of the first Singalese grammar in a Western language, Rask's highly importent work, in which he ""identified Sinhalese as a speech belonging to the same class as Sanskrit and added that Tamil belonged to a different class. Since then the subject has been studied and discusses by various scholars, and it is established beyond doubt that Sinhalese is an Indo-Aryan language.""Rasmus Rask is one of the absolutely most prominent and famous Danish philologers and is very well esteemed worldwide. He was the first to systematically study the ancient Nordic languages and is the discoverer of the relations between the consonants in the Indo-European languages. This discovery served as the foundation of the rules Jacob Grimm later formulated, underlying the Germanic and High-German soundshifts. In PMM, Rask is identified as ""one of the founders of the modern science of language."" (PMM 266).‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Italiænsk Formlære, udarbejdet efter samme Plan som den spanske Sproglære. - [ASSOCIATION COPY.]‎

‎København, Schultz, 1827. 8vo. Uncut in the original blank blue wrapper (back one missing). Upper half of spine missing. Ownership signature to title page. Waterstains to the first few leaves. Contemporary underlinings in text. Handwritten note to inside of front wrapper: ""Foræret / af / Professor Rask / d. 10e August 1828"" (Given by Professor Rask 10 August 1828).‎

‎First edition of Rask's 'Italian Morphology', presumably given by Rask to an unknown recipient. Hjelmslev I, 101.‎

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‎RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Nonnulla de pleno systemate Sibilantium in lingvis montanis, item de methodo Ibericam et Armenicam lingvam literis Europæis experimendi, disseruit Erasmus Rask.‎

‎Hauniæ, Schultz, 1832. 4to. Disbound. Published as Festschrift by the University of Copenhagen. 36 pp + 1 folded plate.‎

‎First edition. Hjelmslev I, 201.‎

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‎NYERUP, R. (RASMUS).‎

‎Wörterbuch der Skandinavischen Mythologie. Mit einer Einleitung, eine Uebersicht der Geschichte des Studiums der nordischen Fabellehre enthaltend. Aus der dänischen Handschrift übersetzt. (+) Uebersicht der Geschichte des studiums der Skandinavischen ...‎

‎Kopenhagen, Gerhard Bonnier, 1816. One contemp. hcalf. Spine rubbed. (2),132 pp. + (6),XIV,61,(1) pp. Internally clean and fine.‎

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‎HAUEN, JENS VON‎

‎Et lidet orthographisk Lexicon Eller Ord=Bog Hvorudi korteligen handles I.) Om Skrive=rigtigheden og de feyl" som derimod begaaes II.) Om Eens=lydende ords skrive=maade og bemærkelse: item hvordan de gemeenligen ud=siges med de ord, som kommer deraf: ...‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Johan Christoph Groth, 1741. 4to. Samtidigt hellæder bind med fem ophøjede bind på ryg. Med forgyldt tekst og ornamentik på ryg. Kapitæler og permer med slitage. Indvendig pæn og ren. (8), 200, (1) pp.‎

‎Originaludgaven af Niels von Hauen hovedværk hvormed han påbegyndte den ""den ortografiske fejde"" med Th. Clitau""(Niels von Haven) gjorde sit navn kendt ved udgivelsen af Et lidet orthographisk Lexicon eller Ord-Bog, 1741, ikke mindst fordi dette leksikon gav anledning til ""den ortografiske fejde"" mellem v.H. og Th. Clitau og som derpå foranledigede J. P. Høysgaards første skrift. Bogen indeholder et forslag om afskaffelse af store bogstaver undtagen ved egennavne, og af verbernes flertalsformer. Samtidig er den et interessant forsøg på at sammenstille homonymer, enslydende, men forskelligt stavede ord. Det er ikke helt vellykket, men det giver ved sine sammenstillinger, tit også ved direkte oplysninger, sproghistorisk værdifuld besked om rigsmålsudtalen i Odense omkr. 1750, ligesom det indeholder en stor del ordsprog og talemåder."" (Den Store Danske Encyklopædi).Biblioteca Danica IV, 69.‎

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‎RASK, RASMUS -‎

‎Breve Fra og Til. Udg. ved Louis Hjlmslev. 3 Bd. i 4 Dele.‎

‎København, Munksgaard, 1941-68. Lex8vo. Indbundet i 4 originale hldrbd. med forgyldte tome- og titelfelter i skind. XIII,457402594 pp. Rent frisk eksemplar.‎

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‎"SNEEDORFF, (JENS SCHIELDERUP).‎

‎Samtlige Skrivter. 9 Bd.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1775-77. Indbundet i 9 ensartede samtidige helldrbind i flammet kalv med ophøjede bind på rygge. Rig rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titeletiketterpå rygge. Her og der med lettere rygslid. Fra ferderik heymans bogsamling. Alle bind har Heymans kobberstukne exlibris på indersiden af forpermerne. Udmærket komplet eksemplar med Sneedorffs kobberstukne portræt i første bind.‎

‎Originaludgaven. Sneedorff var en helt central skikkelse i udbredningen af oplysningstidens idealer i Danmark og Norge: ""Sneedorffs oplysningsforhavende er primært formidlende, samfundsopbyggende og ikke af den kritiske, autoritetsanfægtende slags. Det kritiske ytre sig hos ham i det moralsk-opdragende blik på menneskers adfærd i samfundet og de almene menneskelige brist såsom standshovmod, pyntesyge, forfængelighed, hykleri, fordomsfuldhed."" (Dansk Litteraturs Historie, Gyldendal, 2007, p. 479).‎

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‎"BOPP, FRANZ.‎

‎Vocalismus oder sprachvergleichende Kritiken über J. Grimm's deutsche Grammatik und Graff's althochdeutschen Sprachschatz mit Begründung einer neuen Theorie des Ablauts.‎

‎Berlin, Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1836. 8vo. Bound in a nice contemporary half calf with gilt spine. Gilt title label to spine. Minor wear to lower back hinge. Tear to marbled paper of lower front board. Library stamps to pasted down front endpaper, verso of title-page, and last leaf. A few scattered brownspots, otherwise internally clean. X,253 pp. + errata.‎

‎The first edition of Bopp's Vocalismus in which he sums up his critical thoughts and previously published articles on J. Grimm and Graff.""It seems to me only an expression of the natural common feeling which binds us together as a Philological Society, to take some notice of the death of one of the greatest philologists of our time, without whose life and labours, indeed, the Science of Language might not have been, or at least might not have elevated itself so high as to deserve that title, so soon or so indisputably... Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but Language itself..."" (Russel Martineau, in: Portraits of Linguists. A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics 1746-1963).During the time before Bopp, the languages of the antiquity, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, had provided the key for unlocking many of the mysteries of the modern languages of Europe and Western Asia. But the languages of the East that had been preserved in a larger sense were only beginning to be known"" Bopp saw, as one of the first that these languages might be of even greater importance. Sanskrit, Bopp realized, was the language that might provide the general light that should be thrown on formative process of language, and together with the other known languages that had been investigated, Greek, Latin, Persian, and the Germanic languages, Sanskrit would be able to provide us with the final unity in the variety that are present in the Western languages. And thus, Bopp decided to go to Paris to study Sanskrit (Paris was the only place it could be done) in 1812. Bopp studied Sanskrit here for five years, and in fact, he was among the first pupils to study under Chézy, the holder of the very first chair of Sanskrit (1815), together with Wilhelm von Humboldt and A.W. Schlegel. It is thus during his studies here that he writes his first work, which turned out to be a work of breakthrough. ""Following up the discovery of Sir William Jones (235) of the kinship of the Indo-European languages, and building upon the recognition by Rask (266) of the phonetic agreements of the Germanic language group, Bopp in this, his first publication, proved the exact correspondence of the construction of the verb in five main branches of Indo-European languages. He thereby established the science of comparative linguistics..."" (PMM 275).His first publication was regarded as being a very important contribution to the science of linguistics, and it secured him the chair of Oriental Languages at the university of Berlin (1821-64).Bopp wrote and published very little, but that which he did publish has remained of the utmost importance to the development of the science of comparative linguistics.With his idea of tracing the common origin of the grammatical form of the five languages, a task that no one had attempted before him, and by analysing those forms, Bopp became the provider of the first dependable materials for a history of the languages compared.""Bopp's importance lies in the fact that he was no mere grammarian but considered comparative philology to be an essential part of the history of civilization: out of their vocabulary he drew an accurate picture of the material and intellectual life of the earliest Indo-European people."" (PMM 275).‎

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‎WINDISCH, ERNST. (edt.).‎

‎Zwölf Hymnen des Rigveda mit Sayana's Commentar. Text. Wörterbuch zu Sayana. Appendices.‎

‎Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1883. Bound with the original wrappers in a contemporary half cloth with gilt spine. Gilt title to spine. Minor wear to capitals and corners. Title page and the first to leaves loose. Previous owner's signature to title page. A few brownspots and marginal notes. IV,172 pp.‎

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‎"WÖLDIKE (WOELDIKE), MARCUS‎

‎Betænkning om det Grønlandske Sprogs Oprindelse og Liighed med andre Sprog.‎

‎(Kjøbenhavn, Waeysenhuuses Bogtrykkerie, 1758). 4to. Uden omslag. Udsnit af ""Skrifter, som udi det Kiøbenhavnske Selskab af Lærdoms og Videnskabers Elskere ere fremlagte og oplæste i Aaret 1745. Anden Deel."" Pp. 129-156.‎

‎First printing of the first comparative study of Greenlandic, - 15 years before Paul Egede's Greenlandic Grammar. The Latin edition reads ""Meletema, de lingvæ Groenlandicæ origine, ejusqve a cæteris lingvis differentia"".Lauridsen XII,6. - Groenlandica, p.93.‎

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‎"WESTERGAARD, N.L.‎

‎Codices Indici Bibliothecae Regiae Havniensis jussu et auspiciis Regis Daniae Augustissimi Christiani Octavi enumerati et descripti a N.L. Westergaard. Subjungitur Index Codicum indicorum et iranicorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Havniensis.‎

‎Havniae (Copenhagen), Berling, 1846. 4to. Orig. hcloth with printed upper board. X,122 pp. Clean and fine.‎

‎It is a cataloque of the Indian and Iranian Manuscripts in the Danish Libraries (Royal Library and University Library), collected by Rasmus Rask, Carsten Niebuhr and others. (Part I of ""Codices Orientalis Bibliothecae Regiae Havniensis. Pars Prior Codices Indicos continens."").‎

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‎WESTENHOLZ, AAGE‎

‎Early cuneiform texts in Jena. Pre-Sargonic and Sargonic documents from Nippur and Fara in the Hilprecht-Sammlung vorderasiatischer Altertümer Institutet für Altertumswissenschaften der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.‎

‎København, Munksgaard, 1975. 4to. In the original printed wrappers. Fine and clean. 101 pp. + 13 plates.‎

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‎"RASK, RASMUS.‎

‎Anvisning till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket. Från Danskan öfversatt och omarbetad af Författaren.‎

‎Stockholm, A. Wiborgs Forlag, 1818. 8vo. Ubeskåret i det originale blå omslag. En smule slid og rifter i kanter og kapitæler. Enkelte spredte brunpletter ellers ren og pæn indvendig. Den kobberstukne planche mangler. XXVIII,298,(2) pp.‎

‎Første svenske udgave af Rasks hovedværk ""Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller Islandske Sprogs Oprindelse"", udkommet samme år som den danske originaludgave. Et hovedværk i nordisk filologi. - Rask Bibliografi I,27.‎

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