Author: Mueller, Friedrich [1834-1898]
Title: Die Sprachen der schlichthaarigen Rassen: I. Abtheilung: Die Sprachen der Australischen, der Hyperboreischen ...[I-II Halfte]
Description: Wien, Alfred Hoelder, 1879-1882. blind cloth. 23x15cm, 437 pp, TWO VOLUMES. With original cover wrappers bound-in. A small corner bump to rear corner of Volume 1. Pages brown. Binder's blind vellum-backed cloth. Spines soiled. VG. ¶ Name inked on title-page [Danish ethnographer Vilhelm Gronbech's copy, with his name on title]. This is "Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft, II. Band, I. Abtheilung, Parts 1 & 2". Comparative linguistic study of various Austronesian, Finno-Ugric & Amerind languages. In 1876, in the first volume of his "Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft" [of which this is the first edition of the second volume], Müller was the first to classify the "Hamito-Semitic" language family.

Keywords: Historical Linguistics, Comparative, Linguistic Theory, Austronesian, Finno-Ugric Amerind, Language Languages, Ethnography Ethnic, Anthropology, Ethnology History