CALLERI (CALLERY), GIUSEPPE GAETANO MASSIMO PIETRO MARIA: - [Chinese titile] Systema phoneticum scripturae sinicae. "Ordines phonetico-alphabetici quibus sinensium litterae circumscribuntur" Volume II (of 2). Macao 1841.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (ii), 500, (1) errata. Includes several slip cancels. With one double page table: "Tabula synoptica phoneticarum omnium". Uncut copy, as issued, in original yellow printed wrappers. Title page restored at inner margin (no loss of text). Volume two only, but comprising the complete dictionary: "Ordines phonetico-alphabetici quibus sinensium litterae circumscribuntur" with 12,753 characters arranged under phonetics instead of under their radicals. Text in Chinese, Latin and French. First edition, rare.Calleri (1810 - 76) arrived in Macao in 1836 where he lived for a few years studing natural sciences and Chinese under the renowned sinologist Joachim Alfonso Gonçalves. Calleri set up his own printing press, bought a small set of types, and with the help of six natives he was able to produce this important work. The first volume (not present here) contains a guide to writing Chinese characters. Cordier BS 1597-98. Löwendahl 960. Lust 1009. Zenker ii, 6655.