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HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java, nebst einer Einleitung über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und
HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON Über die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java, nebst einer Einleitung über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwicklung des Menschen... Erster Band. 4to, later artless buckram with handwritten lettering pieces, shaken and worn; scattered foxing, institutional bookplate (with release stamp). Berlin, 1836
- Notes: first edition of the first in a posthumous series of 3 volumes on the Kawi language of Java and Austronesian linguistics, containing a lengthy foreword on "The Heterogeneity of Human Language and its Influence upon the Intellectual Development of Mankind." "In this, his philological testament, Humboldt attempts the classification of peoples according to language... This essay first clearly laid down that the character and structure of a language expresses the inner life and knowledge of the speakers, and that languages must differ from one another in the same way and to the same degree as those who use them"--Printing and the Mind of Man 301. The foreword was also issued separately in a limited number.
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