LUDOLFUS, HIUB. -JOB LUDOLF. -THE FIRST ETHIOPIAN GRAMMAR.

[Ethiopian writing] Grammatica Aethiopica: ab ipso Autore solicite revisa, & plurimis in locis correcta & aucta. Editio secunda. Accedit Prosodia, Cum Appendicibus, Praxi Grammatica, et de scribendis epistolis Aethiopicis; denique index Vocabulorum difficiliorum.

Frankfurt am Main, Apud Johannem David. Zunnerum et Nicolaum Wilhelmum Helwig,1702.

Small folio. Very nice recent blue hcalf w. gilt lettering on spine. Title-page printed in red and black, w. woodcut vignette and stamp: "Jews college, London". Some brownspotting, but all in all a very nice copy. (12), 184, (8) (Index) pp.

Second edition of Ludolfus' groundbreaking Ethiopian Grammar. The German, Job Ludolf, was the first to bring the study of Etiopian subjects into a system, and his present work is the first of its kind to see the light of day. It was unusal for the time to take up the study of something like the Ethiopian laguage, and after Ludolfus' important philological works followed a long period of neglect, which did not end till the second half of the nineteenth century, when these studies were finally resumed, causing them to flourish. Brunet III, pp. 1223.

Order-nr.: 31267