Dictionnaire élémentaire annamite-français

Second edition with the text printed in two columns (see Cordier, Indosinica, 2288).

The first edition was published in 1868.

Contemporary quarter fawn mirabelle sheep binding, flat spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, some rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bumped corners.

Théophile Marie Legrand de La Liraÿe (1819–1873), a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, was sent to Western Tonkin in 1843.

During the French intervention in Annam, he acted as interpreter to Admiral Rigault de Genouilly. After leaving the Missions, he continued in this role for the Governor of Cochinchina.

He died on 7 August 1873 at the military hospital in Saigon, leaving behind manuscripts now held in the Saigon library. A street in that city bears his name (see Archives des Missions Étrangères de Paris).

Some foxing, mainly affecting the first and last few leaves.