Essai sur le patois lorrain des environs du Comté du Ban de la Roche, fief royal d'Alsace.

Essai sur le patois lorrain des environs du Comté du Ban de la Roche, fief royal d'Alsace. OBERLIN (Jérémie-Jacques) 1775. Strasbourg, Chez Jean Frédéric Stein, 1775; 12mo of 4 unnumbered ff. + 288 pp. Modern full calf, smooth spine with title label, gilt foliage border framing the boards. Spine slightly faded, some rubbing, dampstain marks at the beginning and end of the volume, a few pen annotations. First edition of this study of the Lorraine dialect of the Ban de la Roche by Jérémie-Jacques Oberlin (1735, Strasbourg - 1806, Strasbourg), brother of the pastor Jean-Frédéric, philologist and archaeologist, professor at the Gymnase and then at the University of Strasbourg. Glossary at the end.