
Very rare first edition of the earliest French–Annamite vocabulary (see Cordier, Indosinica IV, 2287–2288).
Contemporary modest binding in brown half sheepskin, flat spine lacking at foot, partially covered with a handwritten label—partially torn—bearing the author's name and title; marbled paper-covered boards, pink endpapers.
Scuffing; boards and endpapers renewed.
On the origins of printing in Bangkok (1839), see Michael Winship, "L’imprimerie thaïlandaise : des origines à 1851," in: Le livre et l’imprimerie en Extrême-Orient et en Asie du Sud, 1986, pp. 265–280.
A wide-margined copy enriched with numerous early handwritten annotations in black and purple ink, and pencil.