Author: LANGEN, K.F.H. VAN,
Title: Handleiding voor de beoefening der Atjèsche Taal. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1889. Recent private clothbacked boards, original printed front cover laid down. lower outer cover bound-up. (ix), 158pp. Extensive footnotes, errata on verso of page IX, table of contents. Late nineteenth century textbook, a grammar, incl. pronounciation, spelling, etc., of the Acehnese language, which also includes a separate reader in arabic script, pp. 95-158. Published on behalf of dutch colonial civil servants posted in Aceh Province and linguists thus promoting further studies. Untrimmed copy. Scarce. (small hole to edge of tail margins pp. 75-104, NOT touching printed area however).

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