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RASK, RASMUS KRISTIAN. Vejledning til det Islanske eller gamle Nordiske Sprog. Copenhagen: for Schuboth by J.R. Thiele 1811.
8vo, 184 x 117mm. (7 1/4 x 4 5/8in.), original blue sugarpaper over thin boards, spine lettered in ink, uncut, extremities a little rubbed, some leaves browned, modern light blue quarter morocco box.
FIRST EDITION.
PMM 266
"The 'Guide to the Icelandic or old Nordic Language' was the first of an important series of publications which qualify Rask as one of the founders of the modern science of language"--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: "Tannstrom" contemporary signature on front pastedown--Bertil Ekberg, ink stamp on upper cover.
8vo, 184 x 117mm. (7 1/4 x 4 5/8in.), original blue sugarpaper over thin boards, spine lettered in ink, uncut, extremities a little rubbed, some leaves browned, modern light blue quarter morocco box.
FIRST EDITION.
PMM 266
"The 'Guide to the Icelandic or old Nordic Language' was the first of an important series of publications which qualify Rask as one of the founders of the modern science of language"--Printing and the Mind of Man.
Provenance: "Tannstrom" contemporary signature on front pastedown--Bertil Ekberg, ink stamp on upper cover.