Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard,1933. 4to. Orig. full cloth. (6),461 pp.
København, Universitetsbogtrykkeriet (J. H. Schultz A/S), 1913. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Capitals missing. Book block split down the middle of the spine. Internally clean. 94,(1) pp.
First edtion of this important linguistic work in which he set forth the theories of ""Rank"" and ""Nexus"" in Danish.
København, Kleins Forlag, 1891. Senere privat helshirtbd. 222 pp.
Scarce first edition of Jespersen's doctorial dissertation.
Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard, 1937. Lex8vo. Orig. full cloth. Stamp on foot of titlepage. 170 pp. Presented to ""Viggo Brøndal/ med venlig hilsen/ 15.12.1936/ Otto Jespersen"" (on the halftitle).
First edition. Jespersen here expounds his views on syntactical structures with the use of a shorthand notation. - The book is inscribed to the famous Danish linguist Viggo Broendal, Jespersen collegue at the University of Copenhagen.
Paris, Librairie Orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1951. In-8 broché, première édition, 116 pp., (Collection Georges Ort-Geuthner)
Annotations marginales au stylo, bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 9 € -Monde (z B : 15 €) (z C : 25 €)
N.Y., Dover Publ., (1958). LIII,786 pp.
Paris, Desjonquères 2000, 220x140mm, 270pages, broché. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
Imprimerie Universa 1963 Broché 8 pages Bon état 22 g
Berkeley a. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1947. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Portrait as frontispiece. XI,443 pp., 2 facsimiles. A few leaves with notes.
University of Chicago, 1992. Fort in-4, br., 514 pp., qqes fig. et planches, bibliogr., index, note manuscrite à la page de faux-titre.
in conjunction with the Fourth International Congress of Demotist. The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago, September 4-8, 1990. Couv. un peu défraîchie, intérieur sans défaut, bel ex. - Frais de port : -France 7 € -U.E. 13 € -Monde (z B : 23 €) (z C : 43 €)
University of Toronto Press, 2004. In-4, cart. éd. noir, jaquette illustr. en couleurs ; XIV-371 pp., qq. figures, tabl. et graphiques dans le texte, 18 pl. en noir et en couleurs in fine dont 3 dépliantes. Glossary, Bibliogr., Index of Papyri.
Très bonne condition. Very fine condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €)
Helsinki, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 1952 395pp., nice binding (hardback, spine in cloth), 24cm., in the series "Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne" vol.103, [text in german], X59652
Helsinki, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 1952 395pp., 25cm., text in German, in the series "Suomalais-Ugrilaisen seuran toimituksia. Mémoires de la société finno-ougrienne" volume 103, 3 stamps, pages still uncut, text and interior clean and bright, good condition, T98441
Paris, Aubier 1942 563pp., dans la série "Bibliothèque de philologie germanique" tome I, 19cm., ex.bibl. (estampe), bon état
Bruxelles, Ed. Fondation égyptologique Reine Elisabeth, 1958. In-8 broché, couv. rempliée, 172 pp., front., 24 pl. en n/b. (reprod. photogr.), Ex. non coupé.
Collection: La médecine égyptienne N° 3.barguet Bon ex. -
Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1999. Fort in-8 broché, 471 pp., XII pl. in fine.
Très bonne cond. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €)
Paris, Champion 1914 152pp., 23cm., br.orig., Thèse présentée pour le doctorat d'université à la faculté des lettres de l'université de Paris, cachet au verso de la p.d.t., texte frais, bon état, 111652
, Cambridge, University Press 1955, xx + 207pp.with 43 ills., 3e ed. (entirely revised, enlarged and reset), linen cover, VG
(Calcutta, Printed and sold by Manuel Cantopher, and sold at London by P. Elmsly, 1788). 4to. Extracted and bound in a recent vey nice marbled dark blue paper-binding w. matching gilt burgundy leather title-label to front board. A very nice and clean copy. Pp. 415-431
The seminal first edition of this groundbreaking paper which determined the connection between the Indo-European languages and thereby founded comparative philology and Indo-European studies. ""This slim paper read to the Bengal Asiatic Society and published in its ""Transaction"" marks a turning-point in the history of linguistics and signaled the birth of comparative philology."" (PMM 235).Sir William Jones (1746-1794) was an English philologist and judge who was stationed in India in 1780. He is the founder of the Asiatic Society and now famous as the discoverer and propounder of the existence of a relationship between the Indo-European languages. As he was stationed in India, he set out to master the ancient Sanskrit language, among other things in order to study native Indian law codes, which were written in this language. Due to his excellent language skills and his already perfect mastering of Greek and Latin, Jones discovered a shocking similarity between the languages in a huge number of words. By this discovery of the connection between Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, Jones had, without realizing it initially, discovered what was to be known as proto-Indo-European, -the lost mother tongue of almost all European, Indian and Russian languages as well as some Middle Eastern ones. And thus, with this breakthrough work, Jones, for the first time in history, presents man with the fact that there exists one single, ancient, prehistoric language that led to the development of numerous languages in Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East. It was to take subsequent scholars almost a decade to uncover what exactly this language was, but because of Jones' founding of comparative philology, the likes of Karl Verner and Jakob Grimm have been able to do this.The passage, for which Jones is most famous comes from the present work and has gone down in history as the single most important passage within the literature pertaining to comparative philology: ""The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure" more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit" and the old Persian might be added to the same family."" With these words, linguistics had witnessed a turning-point that was to change this science for ever and that was furthermore to point in the direction of a future understanding of the common heritage that much of mankind possesses. ""In 1786 Jones made his epoch-making discovery between the Sanskrit, Gothic, Greek and Latin languages -to which he later, erroneously, thought he could add Egyptian. His clear understanding of the basic principles of scientific linguistics provided the foundation on which Rask, Bopp and Grimm built the imposing structure of Indo-European studies."" (PMM 235).
Halle (Saale), Verlag von Max Niemeyer 1924, 230x150mm, XLII - 334pages, paperback. Damage to upper spine, otherwise a fine copy.
Kobenhavn, S. L. Mollers Bogtrykkeri 1896, VII- 12Seiten, Chagrin-Halbledereinband. Schönes Exemplar.
12 Kunstblätter s/w,
Lund, 1966 viii + 413pp.+ 4 folding maps, Academic dissertation,in the series "Lundastudier i nordisk sprakvetenskap" vol.16