In fair condition with some shelf-wear, age-related wear and marks from previous use. Some rubbing and bumping to the extremities. slight creasing to the spine. General age-related toning and foxing to the pages. The previous owner has left black-inked faculty stamps throughout the pages, along with son pen marks and marginalia. Includes a map on page 100, entitled "Central Pahārī Languages and Dialects", in color. There is light tea-staining to the lower edge of some of the pages towards the center of the book. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. 

A rare early twentieth century linguistic study of Pahari languages and Gujuri. Pahari is an ambiguous term used to describe a variety of Northern Indo-Aryan languages, most of which are found in the lower Himalayas. They are divided into Eastern Pahari (which includes Nepali), Central Pahari, and Western Pahari, consisting of a number of different languages. This folio tackles each spoken form of Pahari as well as 'Guhuri', now known as Gujar or Gujarātī, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. It is descended from Old Gujarati (c. 1100-1500). This specific book once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967)  'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder's black-inked Yale University faculty stamp and pen markings can be found throughout this folio. FORN-SHELF-0752-BB-0424-eb0695