RASK, RASMUS.

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

København, Beekens Forlag, 1824.

8vo. In recent marbled paper covered boards with leather title-label to spine (binding by Rigmor Birkedal Kragh). Title-page soiled and with marginal repairs, notaffecting text. First leaves with margial dampstains. Light occassional brownspotting throughout. 22, 226 pp.

First edition of Rask's important "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).

Order-nr.: 62968