[Linguistics] Two titles: (1) Kate, L. ten. Aenleiding tot de kennisse van het verhevene deel

der Nederduitsche sprake. Amst., 1723, 2 vols., (48),743,(1); (8),748,(2) p., w. engr. frontisp., 2 engr. headpieces by J. Goeree and 1 fold. map of Europe w. col. isoglosses, fold. letterpress table, cont. ribbed and gilt-lettered hroan, 4to. Occas. foxed/ browned, vol. 1 front cover and first free endpaper loose, spine ends chipped. In all, a good, untrimmed set. Claes 191; NNBW V, 295-6. Containing the first scientific etymological dictionary of (a part of) the Dutch language (vol. 2, p. 103-748). Ten Kate (1674-1731) discovered the so-called sound-shifting in the Germanic languages by investigating the consonant changes almost a century before the German linguist Jacob Grimm proposed his theory on the same subject (which became known as Grimm's law) in 1822. (2) Hannot, S. Nieuw woordboek der Nederlantsche en Latynsche tale. De tweede druk. Ed. D. van Hoogstraten. Dordrecht etc., D. and K.J. Goris etc., 1719, (12),1017 p., cont. blindst. vellum, 4to. Minor internal defects, upper joints splitting. Cf. Claes 2172.

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