Bleek (W.H.I.)
COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF SOUTH AFRICAN LANGUAGES
Part 1. Phonology
Published: Cape Town, 1862
Stock Number: #9832/1
Price: R10,000
Approximately:
92 pages, 8vo (220 x140mm), brown paper wrappers, back cover detached.
Standard Encyclopedia of South Africa vol 2 page 359: Bleek kept up a lively correspondence with missionaries and scholars all over Africa in order to secure many of the early printings in and on African languages. These were the sources for this book. This grammar he considered his great life-work. part of it was published in 1862, but it was never completed.