Le Chou-King, un des livres sacrés des Chinois [...]. Traduit & enrichi de notes, par feu le P. Gaubil, missionnaire à la Chine. Revu & corrigé sur le texte chinois, accompagné de nouvelles notes, de planches gravées en taille-douce & d'additions tirées des historiens originaux [...].

Paris, N. M. Tilliard, 1770

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Description du lot

4to: [4]-cxliv-474-[2] pp.; 4 pl. (foxing, somes quires sl. browned).

Contemp. marbled calf, triple gilt-ruled boards, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, blue marbled edges (sl. traces of use).

First French edition and first translation in a western language of the Shu King, one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. Translated by the missionary Jesuit to China Antoine Gaubil (1688-1759) with additions by the Orientalist Joseph de Guignes based on an original Chinese document in the Royal Library. With a preface by the Jesuit Joseph-Henri de Prémare and an explanation on the Yi Jing, another Chinese classic, by the Jesuit sinologist Claude Visdelou, bishop of Claudiopolis. Illustrated with 4 copper-engraved plates.
Ref. Cordier, Sinica, 1376-1377. - DBS III:1259:4.
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