CALLERI (CALLERY), GIUSEPPE GAETANO MASSIMO PIETRO MARIA (Transl. & Ed.): - ... Li-ki ou Mémorial des rites traduit pour la prémière fois du chinois, et accompagné de notes, de commentaires et du texte original. Turin, Imprimerie Royal, & (Chinese text) Paris, Benjamin Duprat, 1853.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), xxxii, 199 + pp. 98 with Chinese lithographed text. Contemporary roan with elaborate gilt decoration on covers and spine, g.e., somewhat rubbed. Hinges starting, top of spine chipped. A custom-made spectacular binding with gilt inscription "New Year's gift. A.S.". Partly with a few minor stains but otherwise a very good copy.First edition. It's a translation of parts of the Li Ki (Book of Rites), which is one of the Five Chinese Classics and consists of texts on Chinese religious practices from the 8th to the 5th century B.C. The text contains a wealth of information about the Chinese culture from ancient time. Including descriptions of clothing, astronomy, economics, geography, history, music, crime, funerary rites, horticulture, etc. Calleri (1810-76) moved to Macau in 1836 where he studied Chinese under the renowned sinologist Joachim Alfonso Gonçalves. The first complete translation of the Li Ki was made by James Legge and appeared in 1885. Cordier BS 1383. Löwendahl 1137.

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