Author: GUIGNES, JOSEPH DE:
Title: Allgemeine Geschichte der Hunnen und Türken, der Mogols und anderer occidentalischen Tartarn, vor und nach Christi Geburt bis auf jetzige Zeiten. Aus den chinesischen Büchern und orientalischen Handschriften der Königl. Bibliothek in Paris verfasset. Aus dem französischen übersetzt von Johann Carl Dähnert. Five volumes. Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1768-71, 1770.
Description: . 4to. Pp. 647; (vi), 68, (iv), 616; 57, (iii), 587; 60, 372; Register (198); (xxx), Tables 68, (ii), 564, (4). With two engraved plates. Front endpaper (volumes 1-4) have lost a small piece of upper outer corner. Old ownership signature in the last volume. Contemporary half calf on paper boards, spines with five raised bands decorated in gilt and with title labels, lightly rubbed. First German edition translated from the original French edition (Paris 1756-58). The last volume has the subtitle: "Genealogisch-Chronologische Einleitung". This important work on the peoples of central Eurasia includes the first scholarly study of the Mongols based on Islamic and Chinese sources. Joseph de Guignes (1721-1800) was a renowned French orientalist who succeeded Étienne Fourmont at the Bibliothèque royale in Paris. He maintained that the Chinese nations had their origins in Egyptian colonisation, a view to which, despite all refutations, he stubbornly adhered. The second volume contains an extensive study of China, its history, legislation and science. Cf Atabey 535. Cordier BS 2768. Löwendahl 1507 (diff. pag.).

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