‎RASK, RASMUS.‎
‎Undersögelse om det Gamle Nordiske eller islandske Sprogs Oprindelse. Et af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes selskab kronet Prisskrift. - [A FOUNDING WORK IN NORDIC PHILOLOGY.]‎

‎Kjöbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1818. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to extremities. Joints and parts of spine with some loss of leather. Previous owner's name in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Light occassional marginal browning but internally generally nice and clean. XII, 312 pp. + 1 plate. ‎

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‎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.‎