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HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON. Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues. Berlin: Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1836.
4to, 266 x 210mm. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4in.), old half morocco gilt, corners worn, new endpapers, some dampstaining and a little foxing.
FIRST EDITION.
PMM 301.
"In this, his philological testament, Humboldt attempts the classification of peoples according to language. More important than the classification itself was the corollary to it, which seemed to Humboldt to imply that the development of individual languages is affected by physiology, ethnography, history, geography, political and religious relationships, and that stages in the cultural development of peoples leave strongly marked traces in their languages."--Printing and the Mind of Man.
4to, 266 x 210mm. (10 1/2 x 8 1/4in.), old half morocco gilt, corners worn, new endpapers, some dampstaining and a little foxing.
FIRST EDITION.
PMM 301.
"In this, his philological testament, Humboldt attempts the classification of peoples according to language. More important than the classification itself was the corollary to it, which seemed to Humboldt to imply that the development of individual languages is affected by physiology, ethnography, history, geography, political and religious relationships, and that stages in the cultural development of peoples leave strongly marked traces in their languages."--Printing and the Mind of Man.