DU PONCEAU, PETER STEPHEN & MORRONE, JOSEPH & DE LA PALUN: - A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese System of Writing, in a Letter to John Vaughan, esq ... To which are Subjoined, a Vocabulary of the Cochinchinese Language by Father Joseph Morrone, R.C. Missionary at Saigon, ... And a Cochinchinese and Latin Dictionary, in Use Among the R.C. Missions in Cochinchina. Philadelphia, for the American Philosophical Society, 1838.

. Pp. (ii), xxxii, 375, (1). With 10 lithographed plates of Chinese characters. Original cloth backed boards, printed paper label on spine, small notch to upper cover. First edition. ("Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Phil. Society. Vol. ii. "). Cordier BS 1739-40 & BI 2281-82. Löwendahl 926. Lust 982. Vater p.18.

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