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.

Order-nr.: 56793