VARIA BASQUE LANGUAGE - Lot 182

VARIA BASQUE LANGUAGE Set of 4 books: * BONAPARTE (Louis-Lucien), prince: Basque and Finnish languages. London, sme, 1862. In-4: 46pp. and 5 tables on 3 leaves in fine. Printed bookplate Goytino. ½ green basane, gilt title and double gilt fillet framing on green percaline boards. Louis-Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), Prince Bonaparte, was a deputy and then senator during the Second Empire, and a philologist specializing in the Basque language. He was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Basque. He devoted most of his time to Basque. In 1856, the Prince inaugurated a new period in Basque literature with the publication of the translation of Saint Matthew by Emmanuel Inchauspé in Souletin and by Sallaberry Ibarrola in Basque-Navarra. * OMONT (Henri): Catalogue des manuscrits Celtiques et Basques de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1890. In-8, ½ red cloth à la Bradel LAURENCHET, black long title on spine, publisher's cover preserved. * VINSON (Julien): Documents pour servir à l'étude historique de la langue basque. Bayonne, Cazals, 1874. In-8, printed on laid paper with full margins. ½ brown chagrin with corners, gilt title on spine, lemon publisher's cover, gilt head. * FAGOAGA (Isidoro de): Los poetas y el Pais vasco. San Sebastian, Sociedad Guipuzcoana de Ediciones y Publicationes, 1969. In-8, ½ green chagrin, gilt title on lightened spine, publisher's illustrated cover retained.