Systema phoneticum scripturae sinicae. Pars prima [& secunda].

Published by Macao, [author’s private press], 1841.

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Folio (340 x 225 mm). 2 parts in 1 vol. (2) (Latin title), (2) (Chinese title on blue paper), III, (1 blank), 84, XXXVI, 64, (2) pp. (index); (6), 500, (2) pp. (errata). Several gatherings (pp. 5-8, 13-16, 21-32, 317-320, 489-492) on large 8vo leaves mounted on guards; occasional slip cancels (e.g., pp. 271, 383, 467). Chinese characters throughout. Bound in contemporary marbled paper over boards, gilt lettered red spine label, with the ticket of Benjamin Duprat, Libraire, Paris, to front pastedown. First edition, folio issue, of Callery’s most important sinological work, produced at his own press in Macao. - In the preface Callery explains how, with limited funds and materials, he established a small printing office, acquired a set of used types, and with six local assistants inexperienced in Western languages set the work himself. - The "Systema" presents a guide to writing Chinese characters in three styles, followed by a trilingual (Chinese-French-Latin) dictionary and a large collection of colloquial sentences; Part II includes a double page all Chinese "Tabula synoptica phoneticarum omnium". - Issued in both 8vo and folio formats. Leroux’s 1876 catalogue of Callery’s library priced the octavo at 60 francs, noting the folio at 100 francs and already sold out, signalling early scarcity of this larger issue. - A substantial Macao production on fragile, locally made paper, here preserved in remarkable state with wide margins and the contemporary boards, and bearing the ticket of the leading Paris Orientalist bookseller Benjamin Duprat. - Partly uncut. Occasional light marginal browning and a few spots; short closed tear at foot of Part I, pp. 81f.; endpapers browned; light wear to extremities. Overall a notably clean, partly uncut copy. - Benjamin Duprat (bookseller’s ticket on pastedown); later continental ownership. - Cordier III 1597. Löwendahl II 960. Lust 1009. Zenker II 6655.…

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Title
Systema phoneticum scripturae sinicae. Pars prima [& secunda].
Author
Callery, Joseph Marie.
Publisher
Macao, [author’s private press], 1841.
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
Item weight
1,000 grams
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