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).
Berlin, Dümmler 1847. 4°. VIII, 412 S. Halblederband der Zeit mit erneuertem Rücken mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und wenig Rückenvergoldung.
Zweite, wesentlich erweiterte Ausgabe des erstmals 1830 erschienenen Wörterbuches. Franz Bopp (1791-1867) gilt mit seiner bahnbrechenden Schrift "Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache" als der Begründer der indoeuropäischen Sprachforschung. - Rücken später im Stil der Zeit erneuert. Papierbezug an den Deckeln stellenweise abgerieben. Titelblatt fleckig und mit kleinem Stempel in der unteren Ecke, sonst nur stellenweise leicht fleckig.
Berlin, Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1834. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, gilt lettering. Wear to spine ends. Spine a bit rubbed. XII,380 pp. 4 leaves with some foxing.
First edition.
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.
Berlin, Dümmler, 1829. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. tear to cloth at upper joint. XVIII,163 pp. Handwritten title on spine. Internally clean and fine.
First edition.
Berlin, Dümmler, 1854. In-8 reliure neuve pleine toile, dos lisse, couv. impr. contrecollée au plat sup., et partie du dos original formant étiquette de titre, VII-304 pp.
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"Louis-Martin Chauffier Franz Hellens Roger Martin du Gard Etiemble Léon Pierre-Quint Léon Bopp Robert Mallet Roger Stéphane René Pauly Victor Mizrahi Emile Lesaffre Jean-Pierre Beaujot André Vokaer Camille Chavany Gérard Prévot Jean-Louis Ornequint Claude Evrard Jean-Michel Hennebert et Jean-Jacques Thierry"
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(1952)
"Bruxelles. 14 5 cm x 22 5 cm. 1952. Broché. 102 pages. Bruxelles Prétexte 15 février 1952. Broché 14 5 cm x 22 5 cm 102 pages. Textes de Louis-Martin Chauffier Franz Hellens Roger Martin du Gard Etiemble Léon Pierre-Quint Léon Bopp Robert Mallet Roger Stéphane René Pauly Victor Mizrahi Emile Lesaffre Jean-Pierre Beaujot André Vokaer Camille Chavany Gérard Prévot Jean-Louis Ornequint Claude Evrard Jean-Michel Hennebert et Jean-Jacques Thierry; notices études et documents ; portrait photographique de Gide en frontispice. Feuillets mal coupés sinon bon état intérieur" "Feuillets mal coupés sinon bon état intérieur"
Siège de la Revue. 1952. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos fané, Papier jauni. 102 pages. Quelques rousseurs. Coins frottés. Accrocs au dos. Couverture légèrement déboîtée. Une photo en noir et blanc, en planche.. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues
Sommaire: Les poisons toniques d'André Gide par Louis Martin-Chauffier- L'oeuvre marchante d'André Gide par Franz Hellens- Sur quelques photos d'André Gide par René Etiemble- André Gide, l'homme sans son oeuvre par Léon Pierre-Quint- André Gide et les littératures étrangères par Victor Misrahi- Un classicisme par l'ironie par Emile Lesaffre-etc. Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues