Principios elementares da grammatica da lingua sãoskrita por ....
by ABREU, G.[uilherme] de Vasconcellos
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About This Item
Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1879.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, early plain black wrappers (spine gone), rectangular paper label on front cover with title, author, and date in ink manuscript. Considerable Sanskrit typography in text. In good to very good condition. Pictorial bookplate of António Moreira on half title. Much ink manuscript annotation on p. [1], and occasionally elsewhere. (4 ll.), 48 pp. *** FIRST EDITION.Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu (1842-1907), a native of Coimbra, was a Portuguese writer, cartographer and orientalist. Abreu was a lifelong student of languages, particularly ancient Sanskrit. He travelled to Brazil and went on several journeys to Portuguese colonies in India. Elected to the Portuguese Academy of Sciences in 1887, he was interested in modernizing Portuguese orthography. He translated into Portuguese the Sutta-pitaka, Ramayana and the Mahabharata. *** Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa, which cites three other works by this author.
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- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- Principios elementares da grammatica da lingua sãoskrita por ....
- Author
- ABREU, G.[uilherme] de Vasconcellos
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1879.
- Keywords
- Portuguese, Sanskrit, Linguistics, Grammar, Language, phonology
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