RASK, RASMUS KRISTIAN.

Vejledning til det Islandske eller gamle Nordiske Sprog.

København, Schubothes Forlag - J.R. Thiele, 1811.

8vo. Bound in a slightly worn contemporary half calf binding with gilt spine. Gilt title to spine. Edges worn. Brownspotted. LVI,282,(6) pp.

First edition of Rask's seminal first work, "the first of an important series of publications which qualify Rask as one of the founders of modern science of language." (PMM 266). The work constitutes the first thorough treatise of the Icelandic language.

Order-nr.: 57082