Grammaire annamite, suivie d'un vocabulaire français-annamite et annamite-français. Publiée par ordre de Son Exc. le ministre de la marine et des colonies

First collective edition (cf. Cordier, Indosinica IV, 2297).

Light creasing to the foot of the upper cover; a few spots of foxing.

This volume unites in a single work the Grammar of the Annamite language, published in 1864, together with the Vocabulary, first issued in 1861.

A naval officer and Orientalist, Commander Gabriel Aubaret (1825–1894) was appointed the first French Consul in Bangkok in 1863; his true mission, however, was to negotiate with the Imperial Court at Hué for the cession to France of the provinces of Cochinchina. On 21 June 1864 Aubaret signed at Hué a new treaty on the terms desired by the court of Annam.

The three eastern provinces were retroceded to the court of Hué in exchange for a French protectorate over the six provinces of Cochinchina. The treaty affirmed the Emperor’s suzerainty, while stipulating that this did not entail any notion of vassalage.