Marie-Louis-Félix AUBAZAC
Dictionnaire Français-Cantonnais[French–Cantonese Dictionary]
Imprimerie de la Société des Missions-Etrangères|Hong Kong 1909|19 x 25.8 cm|Relié
Second edition, partly original as revised and expanded.
Cordier, Sinica, cites the first edition (col. 1625).
Contemporary half black calf, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, green endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers and spine preserved, modern binding signed Boichot.
Study of the Pounti dialect, or Cantonese, widespread in Kouangtong, spoken in part of Kouangsi, and by a large number of Chinese emigrants.
Stamp of the "Foyer des étudiants d'Extrême-Orient" in Bourg-la-Reine on the front free endpaper.
A dampstain to the foot of the very last leaves. a few small foxing spots, wrappers preserved, slightly soiled.
€2,000