Louis VIVIEN DE SAINT-MARTIN
Mémoire analytique sur la carte de l'Asie centrale et de l'Inde, construite d'après le Si-Yu-Ki (Mémoire sur les contrées occidentales) et les autres relations chinoises des premiers siècles de notre ère, pour les voyages de Hiouen-Thsang [Xuanzang] dans l'Inde, depuis l'année 629 jusqu'en 1645[Analytical Memoir on the Map of Central Asia and India, Constructed from the Si-Yu-Ki (Memoir on the Western Regions) and Other Chinese Accounts of the First Centuries of Our Era, for the Journeys of Hiouen-Thsang [Xuanzang] in India, from the Year 629 to 645]
Imprimerie Impériale (1851-1870)|Paris 1858|15.7 x 24 cm|Broché
First separate illustrated edition, with a large folding map printed on a separate sheet and hand-coloured in outline bound at the end of the volume.
This geographical study is in fact an extract from Volume II of the first French translation by Stanislas Julien of the Da Tang Xiyu Ji (Record of the Western Regions of the Great Tang), the literary account of Xuanzang's nineteen-year journey (626–645, during the Tang dynasty), from Chang'an across Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent.
The two-volume work had previously been published by the Imprimerie impériale in 1857 and 1858.
Spine split, restored with minor losses, some foxing.
€750