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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Berolini, Impensis Ferdinandi Dümmleri, 1827. In-8 relié demi-basane, titre doré en dos, XX + 378 pages; Important manque au bas du dos, intérieur frais.

FIRST EDITION OF THE RIG VEDA, IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. The editor, Friedrich Rosen (1805-1837), was one of the foremost orientalists of his time, and died while working on the project, leaving it incomplete. viii, 263, lxviii, 3 pp. Text in the original Sanskrit; in transliteration; and in Latin translation. Beautifully printed on fine wove paper, in Sanskrit and Roman types. Introduction in English. Exhaustive notes follow the text. Large 4to. BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, WITH THE ORIGINAL PAPER SPINE LABEL. Joints cracked but firm. Some wear and staining to boards. Internally UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. An outstanding copy of a rare and important book.…

Hardcover. First edition. viii, 263, lxviii, [1: corrigenda] p.; 32 cm. [Publications of the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland ; 48] Mandala [liber] 1 [in part: hymns 1-121 (of 191)], ashtaka [sectio] 1, adhyaya [lectio] 1-8, anuvaka [caput] 1-18,i, sukta [hymnus] 1-121. -- In main section (titled: Rik-Sanhita, id est hymnorum collectio), each page, handsomely printed at London by J. L. Cox and Sons, gives the Sanskrit text in devanagari at the top and transliterated in italic at the center, with Rosen's Latin version in roman below; at end: adnotationes, in Latin and Sanskrit. -- From unsigned memorial preface: `The present work, which forms a considerable part of the Rig Veda, appears in an imperfect state. It was the intention of the author [Friedrich August Rosen, 1805-37, professor of Sanskrit at University College, London] to publish the text with a transla tion, explanatory notes, and an index verborum, and to have prefixed to the whole a comprehensive view of the character and manners of the Hindoos in that early period to which the origin of the Vedas is to be referred. But a sudden death,inthe prime of life,and in the full vigour of his intellectual powers, just after he had completed his 32nd year, overthrew at once this great project, and interrupted an undertaking for which no one was so well qualified and prepared as himself. Text and translation only are complete. Of the notes not more than a fourth part is in a finished state. The text of this first edition. .is given from two MSS. .East-India Company, No. 2,133; the other, from.the private collection of Lady Chambers' with readings from six other East India House MSS.' -- Emeneau 31 -- This copy, withdrawn from the Athenaeum library, with special presentation title-page. Good quarter morocco, upper joint cracking. Worm hole, p. 219-xx.…

In 8, pp. XX + 378 + 4. Cart. coeva con piccole manc. ottimo es. Edizione originale dell'opera di questo professore di lingue orientali a Londra. A partire dal XVIII sec. molti studiosi si resero conto delle radici comuni tra sanscrito e lingue europee quali il tedesco. ITA.