Ten vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers in Chinese, orig. stitching; orig. publisher’s chitsu with block-printed title label in both Chinese & Manchu. [China, probably Beijing]: from the “pillar”at the edge of each folded leaf: “Kong gu jushi”; end of Preface in Vol. I: 1869.

A reprint, with additions, of the “seminal” (Laamann) Chinese-Manchu dictionary first published in 1735 by the 18th-century scholar Mingduo Dongjia. It is a revised version of the great Chinese-Manchu dictionary first published under the sponsorship of Emperor Kangxi in 1708. As in the Kangxi edition, the material in Dongjia’s edition... More

Five vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers (some browning), new stitching. [China] Preface dated 1755, but probably printed in the 19th century.

A reprint, of uncertain date, of the famous Manchu-Chinese edition commissioned and sponsored by the Emperor Qianlong, of The Four Books of Confucianism, which, together with The Five Classics, make up the basic canon of Confucianism. During the Ming and Qing dynasties The Four Books were made the core of the official curriculum for the civil service examinations.

An intellectual and ardent Confucian, Emperor Qianlong ordered standardized, fully annotated translations of The Four Books and The Five Classics into Manchu that... More