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numbers. Schultze includes such languages as Ethiopian, Malagassy, Singalese,
Marath, Mexican, Savannah, Virginia, Bralian or Guarini, Japanese, Chinese, etc. In
the brief section on American languages Schultze deplores the lack of information on
them, cites some of the early reports and gives some details of Algonquin, Huron,
Massachusetts (with a mention of Johan Elliot's Bible translation o 1666),,
Makentowonits languages amongst other, with numerous examples and some
bibliographical information on early studies.
The work is based on Schultze's earlier (1748) Orientalisch- und occidentalischer
Sprachmeister, which also contained the Lord's Prayer in multiple languages, and
edited by Johann Friedrich Fritz. Some of the engraved were apparently reused,
giving both plate count (for the 1748 edition) and page number for this edition.
Schultze (1689-1760) studied at Halle and in 1719 went out to the Tranquebar
Mission and learnt the Malabar dialect. He worked on the translation of the Tamil
bible and studied numerous other Indian languages. He returned to Halle in 1743 to
become director of the Halle orphanage, part of the famous Francke'sche Stiftungen
(Francke Foundations), a highly important charitable foundation, printing press, and
missionary establishment.
The work can also be used as a type-specimen of the famous German printing house
of Gessner, showing extensive holdings of exotic type.
Sabin 78008; see Maggs catalogue 891 Dictionaries and Grammars, no. 382
First Edition of Adam Smith’s First Book
71.
SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London, A. Millar;
Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759. £ 12500
8vo, pp. [vi], [viii], 550 [i.e. 530, pp. 317-336 omitted from pagination as
usual], [1], with half-title and errata present; early ownership inscription
to title, partly crossed out; some light foxing and browning, small ink
stain to last 3 leaves; recently bound in full sprinkled calf, spine gilt in
compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition of Adam Smith's first book, the work that established his reputation as a
philosopher not only in London but also on the Continent.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments is of the highest importance because of the way in
which it supplements Smith's views on the nature of man and the way this world
runs, as set out in the more familiar Wealth of Nations. 'One of Adam Smith's major
claims to fame, in some ways his greatest, is his development of a unified concept of
an economic system with mutually interdependent parts. His development of this
came well before the Wealth of Nations: it is in the Theory of Moral Sentiments of
1759 and the Lectures of 1762-3' (D.P. O'Brien, The Classical Economists, 1975, p. 29).
Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments is, in brief, that they are founded not, as
Hume said, on self-interest, but on fellow-feeling - the ability one man has to put
himself in the place of another, and to judge others by himself and himself by others.
Smith's teleological view of the universe, expounded in the Moral Sentiments,