Jean-Denis LANJUINAIS
De la Langue chinoise, morceau extrait de l'allemand du Mithridates d'Adelung[On the Chinese Language, an Extract Translated from the German of Adelung’s Mithridates]
Imprimerie bibliographique|Paris 1807|12.7 x 19.5 cm|Broché
Very rare first edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Magasin encyclopédique (cf. Cordier, Sinica, 1710).
Our copy is presented disbound.
The Mithridates (1806) of the Pomeranian philologist Johann Christoph Adelung (1732-1806), of which only the first volume appeared during his lifetime, was conceived as an ambitious survey of the languages of the world.
Lanjuinais's review is hardly surprising from this liberal statesman: he took advantage of the considerable leisure afforded him by his opposition to the Imperial regime to learn English and German, cultivate relationships with many of the leading...
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