Author: Rosny, Léon de.
Title: Introduction à l'etude de la langue japonaise. [Scarce first edition].
Description: Paris, Maisonneuve et Cie & London, Trubner and Co., 1856. XI,[1],96 pp. B./w. frontispiece, 1 b./w. text-ill., 4 single-page b./w. plts & 2 fold. b./w. plts. (top part of french title-page cut off). - [BOUND UP WITH:] Gesenius,[Wilhelm]. Carmina Samaritana e codicibus Londinensibus et Gothanis. Edidit [...] Guil. Gesenius. Lipsiae, Impensis typisque Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii Guil. Vogellil, 1824. [2],106 pp. 1 fold. table. (Anecdota Orientalia, Fasc. 1). - [BOUND UP WITH:] Nöldeke,Theodor. Ueber die Mundart der Mandäer. Göttingen, Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1862. [1],80 pp. (Aus dem zehnten Bande der Abhandlungen der Ko¨nigl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Go¨ttingen).- [BOUND UP WITH:] Schlagintweit,Emil. Die Könige von Tibet von der Entstehung königlicher Macht in Yárlung bis zum Erlöschen in Ládak. (Mitte des I. Jahrh. vor Chr. Geb. bis 1834 nach Chr. Geb.). München, Verlag der K. Akademie, in Commission bei G. Franz, 1866. 87,19 (= translation of the Gyelrap = Genealogy of the kings of Tibet) pp. 2 fold. genealogical tables. (Aus dem Abhandlungen der Ko¨niglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Kl. 1, Bd 10, Abth. 3). - [BOUND UP WITH:] Ouseley,William. Catalogue of several hundred manuscript works in various oriental languages. London, Printed by A.J.Valpy, 1831. VII,24 pp. 1 plate. - Bound together in one contemp. quarter leather binding, spine gilt dec. lettered, marbled boards. 4to. - Cover worn along the extrimities.Convolute with five interesting rare nineteenth century publications in the field of linguistics (Japanese and Mandaean language), theology and ethnography (very rare publication on the history on the kings of Tibet of 1866 by Emil Schlagintweit). - This collection includes a.o. a complete copy of the rare first edition of Leon Rosny's Introduction à l'etude de la langue japonaise, first published in 1856. This first edition is very rarely on the market. - - Léon de Rosny (1837-1914) studied Chinese from 1852 to the 'École spéciale des langues orientales (current: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales: INALCO), fully investing in learning of the Chinese language. However, when a teacher encouraged him to study the Japanese language, he began to learn it on his own. De Rosny published Résumé des principales connaissances nécessaires pour l'étude de la langue japonaise in 1854, and Introduction à l'étude de la langue japonaise in 1856, two works which constitute the first comprehensive introduction to the Japanese language in Europe. De Rosny acquired such a mastery of Japanese that he served as an interpreter for a delegation sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to France in 1862, to which joined Fukuzawa Yukichi, the Japanese author, teacher, translator, and a.o. founder of Keio University.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Japan Tibet Himalaya Linguistics Asia Japon Taalkunde / Mandaïsch of Mandees Theology Etnografie Azië Taalkunde Azië Japan Taalkunde / Mandaïsch of Mandees Theologie