[Ch.]: Yin Han Qing wen jian; [Manchu]: Nikan hergen i ubailiyambuha manju gisun i buleku...
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