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.
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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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