Author: GRELLMANN, HEINRICH MORITZ GOTTLIEB:
Title: Histoire des Bohémiens, ou tableau des moeurs, usages et coutumes de ce peuple nomade; suivi des recherches historiques sur leur origine, leur langage et leur première apparition en Europe. Paris, Chaumerot, 1810.
Description: . Pp. (iv), 354. Contemporary calf, flat spine gilt in compartments and with title label, rubbed and hinges weak. First French edition of one of the earliest scholary works on Gypsies, originally published in German (Dessau & Leipzig 1783). A comprehensive and highly esteemed work on Gypsy life and customs, especially devoted to their language. Grellmann deduced the Indian origin of the Gypsies because of the many similiarities between gypsy language and Sanskrit and Hindi. This has later been confirmed by other scholars. Includes a trilingual glossary of Romany, Hindi and French. Black, Gypsy (1914), 1719. Caillet 4766.

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