A Japanese grammar.

A$600 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

/ By J. J. Hoffmann. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1876. Second edition. Quarto (280 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine with gilt bands and contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; [16], 367 pp; with 2 plates, one of them folding (short tear at bottom corner); a handsome copy of this work, in fine condition. This is the second English edition of a grammar of the Japanese language compiled by German Oriental philologist, Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1805-1878). It was first published in Dutch and English in 1867, and subsequently in English and German in 1876.

• Binding: Hardcover

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