Description: Dictionnaire Chinois-Français de la Langue Mandarine Parlée Dans L’Ouest de la Chine Avec un Vocabulaire Français-Chinois par Plusieurs Missionaires du Sé-Tch-Oūan Méridional. Published in Hong Kong by the Imprimerie de la Société des Missions Étrangéres. 1893, 736pp, 7.5 x 10", imperial 8vo, hardcover binding. Condition as-is, with a good amount of shelf-wear to exterior, including chipping to spine and boards. Sections of the spine and boards are missing. Hinges are extremely loose and need to be re-bound. There is pencil writing and a sticker inside the front board. Previous owner's stamp and writing on title page. General age-related toning and foxing to pages. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A language study book from the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988): Dutch Orientalist, professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden (1931-1946), and Yale University (1947-1965), and once depicted by legendary Langston Hughes in 'I Wonder, I Wander', as a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages", after a brief meeting on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933. This is a uniquely aged 1893 Chinese dictionary translated into French. FORN-SHELF-572-0823-eb0343
Price: 100 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Hong Kong
Language: French & Chinese
Region: Asia
Publisher: Imprimerie de la Société des Missions Étrangéres
Topic: Language Study
Country/Region of Manufacture: China
Subject: Reference
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1893
