Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BOPP, FRANZ. Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache. [2], xxxxvi, 312 pages. 8vo, 178x103 mm, contemporary 1/2 vellum gilt, somewhat worn, white ink shelf number on spine, lower outer corner of covers cracked; contents foxed, sometimes heavily, inscription and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title, accession number on next leaf. Frankfurt am Main: in der Andreäischen Buchhandlung, 1816

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first edition. "Bopp, in this, his first publication, proved the exact correspondence of the construction of the verb in five main branches of the Indo-European languages. He thereby established the science of comparative linguistics"--Printing and the Mind of Man 275.