PRESENTATION COPY

RASK, RASMUS.

Spansk Sproglære efter en ny Plan udarbejdet af R. Rask. [Spanish Grammar]

København, Beekens Forlag, 1824.

8vo. Bound in a beautiful presentation-binding with green glazed paper over cardboard boards with a handwritten title label to spine. All edges uncut, making the paper-size at least twice as big as that of the regular edition. Printed on vellum paper. Title label partly missing and some of paper to lower capital. Inscribed by the author to inside of front board: "Velbårne / Hr. Prof. Kolderup-Rosenvinge / ærbødigst / fra / Forfatteren." (Honoured / Professor Kolderup-Rosenvinge / respectfully / from / the Author.) A few neat notes in old hand, presumably that of a the later owner, P. Rørdam, whose signature dated 1851 is written on the title page. Internally near mint.


A beautiful presentation copy, inscribed to Kolderup-Rosenvinge, of the first edition of Rask's Spanish Grammar.

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 yielded as "one of the founders of the modern science of language." (PMM 266).

Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup-Rosenvinge (1792-1850) was a renowned Danish jurist, who played a great role in cultural life of golden age Denmark. He was bestowed with a long list of honours and honorary titles. In 1822 he became honorary member of the literary society of Iceland in Copenhagen and the society of the national history of language, and in 1824 he became a member of the scientific academy.

Order-nr.: 33670

DKK 7.500,00