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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. viii, 298 pp., Latin text with some Arabic, +31 pp., of Arabic text, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, red edges, contemporary note on front endpaper, previous owner's inscription on title page, light soiling to top margin of pages 18-20 of the Arabic section, otherwise copy in good condition. Taca Roorda ( 1801-1874), a Dutch Orientalist showed during his career as a Professor at the Institution for the Teaching of Linguistics, Geography and Ethnography of the Dutch East Indies at Delft, a college for the training of Dutch colonial civil servants, can be regarded as one of the most prominent nineteenth-century representatives of the tradition of general grammar in the Netherlands. A theologian by education, he showed a keen interest in philosophy, and in the field of linguistics he had developed into an expert on several non-Indo-European languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Javanese). #31218.