Claude-Philibert DABRY DE THIERSANT

Claude-Philibert DABRY DE THIERSANT

Born05/04/1826
Died04/08/1898
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Claude-Philibert Dabry de Thiersant was a French marine infantry officer, diplomat, and sinologist. After graduating from Saint-Cyr as a second lieutenant in 1847, he served in Guadeloupe and participated in the Crimean War. Sent to China in 1860 as French government commissioner in the Zhoushan Islands and Tianjin, he was appointed French consul in Hankou in 1862, a position he held until 1878. He subsequently held various consular posts in Shanghai, Canton, and Guatemala before being appointed minister plenipotentiary in 1884. His works focused on Chinese medicine, pharmacopoeia, pisciculture, ichthyology, filial piety, and Islam in China. His work La médecine chez les Chinois (1863), although not written by a physician, was one of the first introductions to traditional Chinese medicine in France and was hailed as pioneering work in the dissemination of acupuncture in the West. He also described several freshwater fish species from China, some genera of which still bear his name.
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Bibliography
  • Guide des armées alliées en Chine, ou Dialogues sur les reconnaissances militaires en trois langues : français, anglais, chinois [Guide for the Allied Armies in China] (Paris, Henri Plon, 1859)
  • Organisation militaire des Chinois, ou la Chine et ses armées [Military Organization of the Chinese] (Paris, Henri Plon, 1859)
  • La médecine chez les Chinois [Medicine among the Chinese] (Paris, Henri Plon, 1863)
  • Le massacre de Tien-Tsin et nos intérêts dans l'empire chinois [The Tientsin Massacre and Our Interests in the Chinese Empire] (Paris, Charles Douniol, 1872)
  • La pisciculture et la pêche en Chine [Pisciculture and Fishing in China] (Paris, G. Masson, 1872)
  • La matière médicale chez les Chinois [Materia Medica among the Chinese] (with J. Léon Soubeiran) (Paris, G. Masson, 1874)
  • La piété filiale en Chine [Filial Piety in China] (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1877)
  • Le catholicisme en Chine au VIIIe siècle de notre ère [Catholicism in China in the 8th Century] (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1877)
  • Le Mahométisme en Chine et dans le Turkestan Oriental [Mohammedanism in China and Eastern Turkestan] (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1878)
  • De l'origine des Indiens du Nouveau-monde et de leur civilisation [On the Origin of the Indians of the New World] (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1883)
  • Nos intérêts dans l'Indo-Chine [Our Interests in Indochina] (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1884)
  • La solution de la question du Tonkin [The Solution to the Tonkin Question] (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1885)
  • L'armée coloniale de l'Inde néerlandaise [The Colonial Army of the Dutch Indies] (Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1885)
  • Les catholiques républicains : histoire et souvenirs, 1890-1903 [Republican Catholics: History and Memories] (Paris, Chevalier & Rivière, 1905)
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DABRY DE THIERSANT, Claude-Philibert
  1. La Pisciculture et la pêche en Chine. Ouvrage accompagné de 51 planches représentant les principaux instruments de pisciculture et engins de pêche employés par les Chinois et quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons recueillies en Chine par P. D. de Thiersant. Précédé d'une introduction sur la pisciculture chez les divers peuples par le Dr. J.-L. Soubeiran
    Claude-Philibert DABRY DE THIERSANT

    La Pisciculture et la pêche en Chine. Ouvrage accompagné de 51 planches représentant les principaux instruments de pisciculture et engins de pêche employés par les Chinois et quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons recueillies en Chine par P. D. de Thiersant. Précédé d'une introduction sur la pisciculture chez les divers peuples par le Dr. J.-L. Soubeiran[Fish Farming and Fishing in China. Work Illustrated with 51 Plates Depicting the Principal Fish-Culture Implements and Fishing Gear Used by the Chinese, together with Several New Species of Fish Collected in China by P. D. de Thiersant. Preceded by an Introduction on Fish Culture among Various Peoples by Dr J.-L. Soubeiran]

    G. Masson|Paris 1872|27.5 x 36 cm|Relié

    Paris, G. Masson, 1872. Quarto, 3 unnumbered leaves, ix and 196 pages, with 51 lithographed plates.

    First edition of this important and very rare work, issued in a small number of copies. Catalogue Petit, 656; Bibliotheca piscatoria, p. 75; Nissen, ZBI, 1018.

     

    Complete with all 51 plates, numbered I-L with an additional plate XXXV bis. They form two distinct series: 36 plates devoted to nets, fish-farming apparatus and fishing implements used in China, followed by 15 plates depicting fishes collected by the author, including several species then new to European science...

    €3,800
  2. Guide des armées alliées en Chine, ou Dialogues sur les reconnaissances militaires en trois langues : français, anglais, chinois, avec la prononciation figurée du chinois. Suivi d'un vocabulaire chinois, français, anglais, et précédé de la division des provinces de la Chine et de l'hygiène à observer dans ces contrées. Vu et corrigé par un lettré chinois
    Claude-Phillibert DABRY DE THIERSANT

    Guide des armées alliées en Chine, ou Dialogues sur les reconnaissances militaires en trois langues : français, anglais, chinois, avec la prononciation figurée du chinois. Suivi d'un vocabulaire chinois, français, anglais, et précédé de la division des provinces de la Chine et de l'hygiène à observer dans ces contrées. Vu et corrigé par un lettré chinois[Guide to the Allied Armies in China; or, Dialogues on Military Reconnaissance in Three Languages: French, English, and Chinese, with a Phonetic Guide to Chinese. Followed by a Chinese–French–English Vocabulary, and Preceded by a Survey of the Provinces of China and Notes on the Hygienic Precautions to Be Observed in Those Regions. Reviewed and Corrected by a Chinese Scholar]

    Henri Plon • W.O. Mitchell|Paris • London [Londres [London]]|13 x 19 cm|Broché

    First edition (cf. Cordier, Sinica, 1643).

    Small tear and minor loss at the head of the spine; covers slightly soiled.

    A highly interesting trilingual lexicon, presenting Chinese ideograms alongside their phonetic transcription, published in the immediate aftermath of the French expedition of 1858.

    It includes, for example, practical phrases such as how to ask "Quelle est la nature de la rade ?" or how to reply that a general is "très brave ; il ne recule devant rien".

    Claude-Philibert Dabry de Thiersant (1826–1898) began his career as a naval officer before turning to diplomacy, a path that led him to hold several consular posts in the Far East...

    €750
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