Ivane Kavtaradze. Towards a History of the Georgian Language, 12th–18th Centuries (Kartuli enis ist'oriisatvis ). Volume I, 1964. In Georgian.

ქავთარაძე, ივანე. ქართული ენის ისტორიისათვის : XII-XVIII სს. ტ. 1 / რედაქტორი ვ. თოფურია ; თბილ. სახელმწ. უნ-ტი, ახალი ქართული ენის კათედრა.
თბილისი : თბილ. უნ-ტის გამომცემლობა, 1964. 403 გვ.
ლუდერინისებრი ყდა, ოქროს ტიპებით სათაური. ფორმატი 60×92/16 (ჩვეულებრივი). ტირაჟი 1000 ეგზ. 
ფორზაცზე — მოკლე მფლობელური წარწერა შავი ბურთულიანი კალმით.
მდგომარეობა კარგი: ყდა მცირე ცვეთით კუთხეებზე, ოქროს ბეჭდვა ნათელი; ფურცლები მცირედ მოყვითლო; ბლოკი მტკიცე, ტექსტი სრულად იკითხება.
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Kavtaradze, Ivane. Towards a History of the Georgian Language : 12th–18th centuries. Volume I / editor V. Topuria ; Tbilisi State University, Chair of Modern Georgian Language.
Tbilisi : Tbilisi State University Press, 1964. 403 pp.
Publisher's blue leatherette binding. Standard octavo format 60×92/16 (approximately 145×220 mm). Print run of only 1,000 copies. 
Bearing a brief handwritten ownership note in Georgian cursive in black ballpoint on the front free endpaper.
Condition good: blue boards with light wear to corners and edges, the gilt lettering of author and title bright and well preserved; interior leaves with even, light age-toning typical of mid-1960s Soviet acidic paper; the tipped-in errata slip preserved intact; text-block firm, sewing sound, text fully legible throughout.

The first volume of Ivane Kavtaradze's foundational historical study of the literary Georgian language between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, published under the imprint of Tbilisi State University Press in a strikingly small print run of only 1,000 copies. Kavtaradze, working under the editorial supervision of Varlam Topuria — the leading authority of the twentieth-century Georgian linguistic school and head of the Chair of Modern Georgian Language at Tbilisi State University — traces the phonological, morphological, lexical and stylistic development of the language through the major literary monuments of the High and Late Medieval periods and the early modern Georgian renaissance: from the twelfth-century language of Shota Rustaveli's Vepkhistq'aosani and the Georgian historical chronicles, through the prose and lexicography of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, to the eighteenth-century literary and grammatical efflorescence under King Vakhtang VI and the Bagrationi court. A particular strength of the volume is its careful attention to the substantial corpus of Persian and Arabic lexical loans that entered Georgian during this period, displayed in tabulated transliterations of Perso-Arabic source forms (devlat, ǧannam, pahlavān, divān, mukāfaʿat and others). Issued as a working monograph of the New Georgian Language Department at Tbilisi State University and intended both for advanced philology students and for Kartvelological specialists, the volume is foundational to the historical and comparative study of the Georgian literary language.