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CHINA - GRAMMARS AND DICTIONARIES ABEL-REUMUSAT (JEAN-PIERRE) Élémens de la grammaire chinoise, FIRST EDITION; and others
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CHINA - GRAMMARS AND DICTIONARIES
ABEL-REUMUSAT (JEAN-PIERRE) Élémens de la grammaire chinoise, ou principes généraux du Kou-wen ou style antique, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 2 folding lithographed tables, original yellow printed upper wrapper bound in (with "Societe Asiatique" blue stamp, also on title-page), some spotting, early calf-backed boards, worn with some loss to spine, joints weakened [Lust 1027], Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1822--DOOLITTLE (JUSTUS) Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language, Romanized in the Mandarin Dialect, 2 vol., title to volume 1 re-inserted with loss to a couple of letters of the imprint, red ink ownership stamp ("T. Funatsu") on titles, later annotations on the front free endpapers, early cloth, rebacked in calf with red morocco gilt spine labels, Foochow [Fuzhou], Rozario, Marcal and Co., 1872--GABELENTZ (GEORG VON DER) Chinesische Grammatik, additional title in Chinese printed on yellow paper, 3 plates, early quarter morocco, Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1881--GILES (HERBERT A.) Chinese-English Dictionary, old tear repaired to title, early half calf, Quaritch, and Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1891--JULIEN (STANISLAUS) Syntaxe nouvelle de langue chinoise, 2 vol. in 1, half-titles and titles printed in red and black, early quarter morocco, Paris, Maisonneuve, 1869-1870--POLETTI (P.) A Chinese and English Dictionary, Arranged According to Radicals and Sub-radicals, browned, a few thin traces of worming towards end, modern cloth, original ?printed label to upper cover or advertisement pasted in, Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1907, 8vo and 4to (7)
Saleroom notices
The Giles title is dated 1892, NOT 1891

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