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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hervás y Panduro, Lorenzo (S. J.). Catálogo de las lenguas de las naciones conocidas, y numeracion, division, y clases de estas segun la diversidad de sus idiomas y dialectos. Madrid, Imprenta de la administracion del real arbitrio de beneficiencia,1800-1805. 6 vols in 8vo. xvi + 396p; 480p; 359 + [1 blank]p; 343 + [1 blank]p; 315 + [1 blank]p; 379 + [1 blank]p. With 7 folding tables. Contemporary marbled sheep; backstrip gilt with morocco title labels. First Spanish language edition of this celebrated pioneering study of comparative linguistics. The text of this edition is massively enlarged; the Italian rudimentary version published at Cesena in 1784 had consisted of one volume only. Vol. 1 treats the languages of the Americas: chapters 2-7 deal with the Indian languages of Spanish America; the 2 folding tables calculate distances between thirty settlements of the Guaraní Indians with a census of their populations in the year 1767, and list the missions in the Chaco region 1735-1767. Chapter 7 is devoted to the languages spoken in California, the Mississippi area, Florida, Greenland, the north American east coast, Labrador, and Iceland; Algonquin is classified as twenty-five dialects, Huronian and Iroquoian as eleven, and Apachean as seven. Vol. 2 discusses the Pacific area (Malay, Tagalo, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Hindostani, Mongolian, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopian, etc). Vol.3 covers Europe including a chapter on the Gypsy language, and vols 4-6 are devoted to the study of ancient European languages, notably Iberian, Celtic, and Basque. Hervás (1735-1809), a Jesuit scholar, worked in the American missions until they were closed in 1767. He subsequently studied mathematics, physics and linguistics in Italy, and was appointed Prefect of the Vatican Library by Pope Pius VII. Isolated worming repaired in titles and in blank margins of last quires of 3 volumes, otherwise a good set. Leclerc 2072; Palau 114453; Sabin 31600.