EICHHOFF, FRÉDÉRIC GUSTAVE: - Parallèle des langues de l'Europe et de l'Inde, ou étude des principales langues romanes, germaniques, slavonnes et celtiques comparées entre elles et à la langue sanscrite, avec un essai de transcription générale. Paris, a l'Imprimerie Royale, 1836.

. Small folio. Pp. (iv), viii, 501. Uncut copy. Somewhat later calf, spine gilt with four raised bands and title printed in gilt, original wrappers bound in (front cover with minor marginal loss). Some light staining throughout. First edition of an early work devoted to comparative linguistics. The Indo-European comparative studies as an academic discipline started in the early 1830's by Franz Bopp who published several works on the subject. Vater p.180.

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