ABEL - RÉMUSAT, JEAN-PIERRE / ROSNY, LÉON DE: - ... Élémens de la grammaire chinoise, ou principes généraux du Kou-wen ou style antique, et du Kouan-hoa, c'est-à-dire, de la langue commune généralement usitée dans l'empire chinois. Nouvelle édition, ... augmentée d'une table des principales phonétiques chinoises par L. Le—n de Rosny. Paris, Maisonette et Cie, 1857.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxii, 240. Includes the Chinese title printed on yellow paper. With two folding lithographed plates. Half morocco on marbled boards, spine with five raised bands and title lettered in gilt. Bookplate (Bibl. du Château d'Ingelmunster). Second edition (first 1822), enlarged with a table "des principales phonétiques chinoises" devised by Leon de Rosny. A handsome copy.Abel Rémusat's grammar was the first useful Chinese grammar to be printed in Europe. Abel-Rémusat carefully distinguishes between classical or literary Chinese and the vernacular based on Mandarin. The two languages are treated in two different sections, "Style antique" and "Style moderne". But the last section with analyses of the vernacular is more elaborate and valuable than the classical part. Alain Peyraube: "Some reflections on the sources of the Mashi Wentong" pp. 345-46. Cordier BS 1662. Cf Löwendahl 827 (first edition).

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