RASK, RASMUS. - A FOUNDING WORK IN NORDIC PHILOLOGY.

Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller islandske Sprogs Oprindelse. Et af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers=Selskab kronet Prisskrift.

Kjöbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1818. Smukt senere hldrbind med ophøjede bind på ryggen. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldt skindtitel. XII,312 pp., 1 planche. Rent velbevaret eksemplar på trykpapir.

Originaludgaven af Prisskriftet, Rasks hovedværk, og et grunlæggende arbejde i Nordisk Sprogvidenskab.

First edition of Rask's main work, a founding work in Nordic Philology as he was the first to study the ancient Nordic languages systematically and discovered the correspondance of consonant relations between the Indo-European languages which led Jacob Grimm to formulate the rules underlying the Germanic as well as the High-German sound-shifts.
Rask Bibliografi I,24. - Fiske I,482.

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