1955 Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache - A. Erman & H. Grapow -4 Vols

Description: Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache (Dictionary of the Egyptian Language) by Adolf Erman and Hermann Grapow. Erster Band (Volume 1), Zweiter Band (Volume 2), Wierter Band (Volume 4), and Funfter Band (Volume 5). Published by the Akademie-Verlag in Berlin. 1955, Vol. 1: 583pp, Vol. 2: 506pp, Vol. 4: 569pp, Vol. 5: 639pp, 9 x 12", 8vo, softcover binding. Condition as-is, with considerable age-related wear, hinge-wear, and missing covers. Volume 1 is missing the paper covers and has loose pages at the rear. Each of the other volumes have shelf-wear to the extremities. Some chipping and tearing to the paper covers. There are stray pen and pencil markings and writing on the spines and covers, along with black-inked faculty stamps. Some markings and stamps continue throughout the pages. All volumes have age-related toning and foxing to the pages. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. Extremely scarce, incomplete set of 4 German language dictionaries of the Egyptian language, compiled and published by Adolf Erman (1854-1937) and Hermann Grapow (1885-1967). The Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache, abbreviated as Wb in bibliographic references is a comprehensive work encompassing 3000 years of linguistic history. Including Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian as well as hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Classical Greco-Roman period. The Wb contains approximately 16,000 headwords in five main volumes, two secondary volumes, and five volumes of primary source references. Making it the largest and most complete printed dictionary of Ancient Egyptian in existence. The first volumes were published in 1926, and the last one in 1961. This specific set once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967) 'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder was a collector of dictionaries, his black-inked Yale University faculty stamps and annotations can be found throughout these books. FORN-SHELF-0548-BB-2407-eb0786

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