[4], 51; 58; 38; 31 (lacking f. 12); 36; 30; 34 (lacking f. 11); 37; 28 (lacking ff. 5 & 7); 30; 35; 30 (lacking f. 25) folding leaves. 12 debtelin in 12 vols. 8vo, old wrappers, old stitching. Beijing: Sanhuai tang (from title-page) & Sihe tang (from Vols. 3 & 10), [Preface dated 1750].

The Manchu Collected by Li Yanji (fl. 1693-1750?) is one of the earliest and most popular Manchu-Chinese dictionaries to be commercially published in Beijing. Li, a Chinese bannerman and “an erstwhile local magistrate in Sichuan and Fujian,” compiled and privately published this dictionary in 12... More