LEIBNIZ (Gottfried Wilhelm).

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LEIBNIZ (Gottfried Wilhelm).
Collectanea etymologica. Hanover, Nicolas Forster, 1717. 2 parts in one large volume in-8, stiff vellum, title in ink on spine, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). Original edition, published one year after Leibniz's death by his colleague Johann Georg von Eckhart, German linguist and philosopher. Interesting glossary, useful for the study and knowledge of the languages of various peoples. In addition to numerous terms in French, Slavon, Russian, Teuton and Celtic, there is a curious section on the Hottentot language (pp. 375-384): this proposes the translation into this South African dialect of the Pater Noster, the Ten Commandments (Decem Praecepta) and the Creed (Symbolum Apostolicum), accompanied by an interlinear version in Dutch; the Hottentot text is transcribed in Latin characters, the "clicks" (sounds produced by aspiration) being represented by the signs t? and k? (cf. F.-X. Fauvelle-Aymar, L'Invention du Hottentot, 2002, p. 234). A copper-engraved folding plate (p. 75 of the second part) depicts fragments of Gallic antiquity and an inscription made by boatmen of the Seine in honour of the Emperor Tiberius, recently found in the cathedral of Paris. The original edition of De origine francorum disquisitio (Hanover, Forster, 1715) has been linked to the continuation of the same. An engraved ex-libris, partly torn off at the upper back cover. Missing is leaf R1 (pp. 253-254) in the second part of the first work. Some freckles. LEIBNIZ. See lot 161.
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