Charles Félix Hyacinthe de CHARENCEY
Chrestomathie Maya, d'après la chronique de Chac-Xulub-Chen. Extrait de la 'Library of Aboriginal American Littérature" [sic] de M. le Dr D.-G. Brinton
[The Chronicle of Chac Xulub Chen]
Librairie C. Klincksieck|Paris 1891|13.5 x 22 cm|Relié
First edition, accompanied by the original text with interlinear translation, grammatical analysis, and a Maya–French vocabulary, published by Count H. de Charencey.
A pleasant copy.
Contemporary full green cloth, flat spine slightly sunned, gilt title, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Grammatical and lexicographical study based on a short text in the Maya language written around 1562 by an indigenous chronicler named Nakuk-Pech.
From the library of the orientalist Emile Sénart, with his ink stamp and a printed presentation slip: "Avec tous les compliments de l'auteur. De Charencey".
€450