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[DALTON, HERMAN]: Das Gebet des Herrn in den Sprachen Russlands. St. Petersburg, Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1870.
Tall 8vo. Pp. xii, 88. Later boards, cloth spine, upper cover with the original printed front cover preserved. With a dedication to Prof. Dr. Zoeckler by Dalton. Rare language specimen of the Russian empire published on the occasion of Georg Freiherr von Meyendorf's 25-year presidency of the "Evangelische Haupt-Bibelgesellschaft für Russland". An enlarged version of this collection of Paternosters. Contains: i. Sprachliches Uebersichtstafel (a language classification as developed by Wiedermann in 1866); ii. Texterläuterung (for 90 different language groups or dialects by H. Dalton); iii. Vater-Unser-Texte (reproducing 109 different Paternosters) and; iv. Alphabetisches Inhaltsverseichniss. This work is also of typographical interest as exotic founts are used for Church Slavonic, Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Chinese Manchu, Japanese, Arabic and Hebrew respectively.
Offered for EUR 1400.00 = appr. US$ 2210.60 by: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books - Book number: 28103
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