Tibetan language.- Schmidt (Isaac Jacob) Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache, first edition of the first Tibetan grammar in German, St. Petersburg & Leipzig, 1839.
Tibetan language.- Schmidt (I[saac] J[acob]) Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache, first edition, errata f. at end, some spotting or mostly light foxing, engraved view of Lhasa from another work bound in at end, contemporary marbled boards, extremities worn, rubbed, [Cordier, Sinica, 2932; Lust 254; Yakushi S 74], 4to, St. Petersburg & Leipzig, 1839.
⁂ The first Tibetan grammar in German, and indeed one of the first Tibetan grammars in a western language. Schmidt was an Orientalist who specialised in Tibetan and Mongolian, spending much of his career in St. Petersburg as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Tibetan language.- Schmidt (I[saac] J[acob]) Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache, first edition, errata f. at end, some spotting or mostly light foxing, engraved view of Lhasa from another work bound in at end, contemporary marbled boards, extremities worn, rubbed, [Cordier, Sinica, 2932; Lust 254; Yakushi S 74], 4to, St. Petersburg & Leipzig, 1839.
⁂ The first Tibetan grammar in German, and indeed one of the first Tibetan grammars in a western language. Schmidt was an Orientalist who specialised in Tibetan and Mongolian, spending much of his career in St. Petersburg as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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