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[HISTORY] - The Ancient Voice of Spain: A Jesuit’s Praise of the Basque Language - DE LARRAMENDI Manuel (1690 - 1766) - Manuel de Larramendi, De la antigüedad y universalidad del Bascuence. Salamanca, Egidio Garcia de Honorato, 1728. 8vo (145×100 mm); [12], 170 (actually 168) pp. Title within woodcut border. Contemporary vellum, ties missing. Light browning and stains to lower margins. Good copy. First edition of this early defense of the Basque language and its supposed primacy over other tongues.