HAGER, GIUSEPPE (JOSEPH): - Description des médailles chinoises du Cabinet Impérial de France, précédée d'un essai de numismatique chinoise, avec des éclaircissemens sur le commerce des Grecs avec la Chine, et sur les vases précieux qu'on y trouve encore. Paris, chez Treuttel et Würtz (printed by "par les soins de J.J. Marcel" by de l'Imprimerie Impériale), 1805.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), xiv, (ii), 188. With one folding engraved map and one engraved plate. Two engravings and woodcuts including many Chinese characters, in text. Printed on thick paper. Contemporary marbled paper boards, flat calf spine, richly decorated in gilt, marbled end papers. With some staining in the text. First edition. Scarce. Hager (1757-1819) was professor of oriental languages at Pavia in today's northern Italy. Hager's Chinese works have been heavily critized by the sinologists A. Montucci and H.J. Klaproth. Cordier BS 688. Lust 1130. Löwendahl 728.

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