Lot n° 162
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Chinese, French and Latin dictionary, published according to - Lot 162
Chinese, French and Latin dictionary, published according to the order of his Majesty the Emperor and King Napoleon the Great;
by M. De Guignes (1759-1845), resident of France in China, attached to the ministry of foreign relations, correspondent of the first and third class of the Institute.
In Paris, from the Imperial Printing House. M. DCCC. XIII (1813), large in-4 bound in full contemporary basane, with the spine damaged at the lower part missing, and consolidated by horizontal bands joining the boards, corners dull.
The work is incomplete of the false title, the title page, the frontispiece and the first 46 pages of the introduction, but quite complete of the Dictionary itself.
"M. Fourmont received from the Government, in 1715, the order to engrave the Chinese characters necessary for the printing of a dictionary. One hundred and twenty thousand characters had already been engraved in 1742, when Mr. Fourmont published
his Chinese Grammar, when death struck this scholar...".
The work was resumed in 1810 by order of Napoleon by M. De Guignes and the first publication took place in 1813.
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