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Lot #    16554
Auction End Date    12/5/2006 12:11:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die Form der hebräischen Poesie;
Title (Hebrew)    Programm der Deutschen Hauptschule St. Petri
Author    [Only Ed.] Ernst Meier
City    Tübingen - St. Petersburg
Publisher    Osiander'schen Buchhandlung - Academie
Publication Date    1853; 1877
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. vi, 119; 70 pp., 232:159 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps, old hands. Very good copies bound in later baords.
          
Detailed
Description		    A volume on metrics and rhythmics of Hebrew poetry, written by Ernst Heinrich Meier (1813-1866), an Orientalist who was a professor of Semitic languages and literature at the Univeristy of Tübingen. He is also the author of many other books, including Die ursprüngliche Form des Dekalogs (Mannheim, 1846) Deutsche sagen, sitten und gebräuche aus Schwaben (Stuttgart, 1852), Schwäbische volkslieder mit ausgewählten melodien (Berlin, 1855), et. al.

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Programm der Deutschen Hauptschule St. Petri womit zum feierlichen Schulssact am 4. Juni ehrerbietigst einladet der Director Mag. Hermann Graff. St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1877.

A program of the German upper school St. Petri. It contains an essay on alliteration in German poetry.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Poetry
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica