KLAPROTH, HEINRICH JULIUS (Ed.): - Chrestomathie chinoise, publiée aux frais de la Société Asiatique. Paris, chez M. Cassin [etc.], 1833.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), Chinese title, pp. 186, (1), 15. Copy with wide margins, lithographed text within a black border. With full-page illustration on page 73. Later half sheepskin on marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, rubbed and some stains. Marbled endpapers. With neat pencil annotations (pp. 75-111). Old stain on half title and a few subsequent leaves and occasionally some light spots. First edition of this important elementary book of Chinese chrestomathy edited by the famous sinologist Klaproth. He was a German orientalist who participated in a Russian expedition to China in 1805 and later in an ethnographic and linguistic exploration of the Caucasus. From 1815 he lived in Paris where he served as professor of Asiatic languages and literature. Comprises following six works:Thaï chang Kan yng pian (Book of rewards and penalties); Wen tchhang Tsu thung ti kiun In tchy wen (Treatise on the reward of secret benefits); Tching la fung thou ki (Description of the country and usages of Tchin la or Cambodia); Hoeï lan ki (History of the chalk circle); Thsian tsu wen (Treatise in a thousand characters) and San tsu king (Book of phrases in three characters). A scarce work in the trade. Cordier BS 1683. Löwendahl 890. Zenker BO ii, 6713.

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