Les Livres sacrés de l'Orient, comprenant le Chou-King ou le livre par excellence, les Sse-Chou ou les quatre livres moraux de Confucius et de ses disciples, les lois de Manou, premier législateur de l'Inde ; le Koran de Mahomet ; traduits ou revus et publiés par G. Pauthier

First edition. 

Contemporary binding in green shagreen, spine slightly faded, with four raised bands gilt with fillets and triple compartments, joints split at the head, green vellum corners, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns in laid paper.

This volume from the Panthéon littéraire series offers a striking example of the 19th-century Western view of the East, notably in its attempt to identify counterparts to “sacred books” for religious and philosophical traditions that—apart from Islam—do not fit such a framework at all. 

The orientalist Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Pauthier (1801–1873) worked across several fields, though he is best known for his translations from Chinese.