TABERD, JEAN-LOUIS: - Documenta rectae rationis seu forma instructionis ad usum alumnorum sinensium, anamitarum, nec non et catechistarum. Serampore, Ex typis J.C. Marshman, 1839.

. Pp. (ii), xvi, vi (index), 355, (1) errata. Latin text with Chinese characters and Annamese transcription. Modern cloth, title label on spine. Old handwritten inscription on front endpaper to or from an apostolic missionary (illegible name) of Cochinchina.Very rare work intended for those studying Chinese and Annamese, not only for missionaries, but concerns about proselytism are very present. Taberd relied on the work by Father Georges d'Alary (1731-1817). Taberd, French missionary, was Vicar Apostolic of Cochinchina, and appointed Bishop of Isauropolis in 1830. With the persecutions of the Vietnamese Emperor Minh Mang in 1833, Taberd was forced to leave the country and settled in Calcutta. He published a Latin-Vietnamese dictionary in Serampore by Joshua Marshman in 1838. This work was published at the same press the following year. Serampore, a historical city in the modern-day state of West Bengal was part of Danish India between 1755 and 1845. The Mission Press was established in 1800 by the Serampore Trio, the British missionaries William Carey, William Ward and Joshua Marshman. It was the foremost press in Asia at this time and printed more than 200 000 copies of books in forty different languages between 1801-32. The important achievement of the Mission press for Chinese works was the preparation of the movable type of Chinese characters. No copies found in western institutions. Not in Cordier. Not in Löwendahl. Diehl, Early Indian Imprints, 420.

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