A syllabic dictionary of the Chinese language 1874
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WILLIAMS, S(AMUEL) WELLS. A Syballic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, arranged according to the Wu-fang yuen yin, with the pronunciation of the characters as heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai. Shanghai (American Presbyterian Mission Press) 1874.
4:o (about 270x212 mm.). (3, probably lacks halftitle), vi-lxxxiv, (1)-1250, (4, last 2 blank) pp. 1 plate (as frontispiece).
Contemporary brown quarter leather, worn, mended in the joints, somewhat faded gilt spine, upper and lower edge with some dampstaining, new endpapers. A few marginal pencil annotations.
Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1829.
First edition. Williams (1812-1884) began work on this dictionary in 1863, taking almost 10 years to organize his 53.000 examples and phrases and 12.527 characters. Joseph Edkins contributed a section on ´Ancient sounds´ in the introduction and was responsible for lists of ´Old sounds* inserted at the head of each syllable.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6051
Datum:
2017-11-21