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317 - AMIOT, CIBOT (under the direction of). Mémoires concernant l…
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AMIOT, CIBOT (under the direction of). Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les mœurs, les usages, etc. des Chinois. By the missionaries of Peking (Amyot, Bourgeois, Ko, Poiret etc.). Paris, chez Nyon 1776-1814, 16 volumes in-4. bound in full calf, Volume I Antiquités, caractères des chinois, royaume des Eleuths, Tourgouths, - Ta-Hio, ou la grande science -Tchonh-Yong ou juste milieu, XVI-486 pp. frontispiece, 9 plates hors-texte. Volume II (1777) Antiquités des chinois - remarques sur un écrit concernant les chinois - cotonniers bambou - le jardin de See-ma- Kouang VIII-650 pp., 37 plates of which 10 hors-texte including 3 folding maps. Volume III (1778). Portraits of famous Chinese - reduction of the Miao-Tsé - Chinese greenhouses - notices of some plants and shrubs of China, IV-504 pp. 6 plates hors-texte. Volume IV (1779). Doctrine of the Chinese on filial piety - the interest of money in China - smallpox - notice of the Chinese book Si-Yuen - notice of the Cong-Fou, observations of physics of the Emperor Kang-Hi - notice of the Che-Hiang - notice of the Pe-Tsai, IV-510 pp., 7 plates out of text. Volume V (1780) ; idée générale de la Chine - suite des portraits des célèbres Chinois, notices du royaume de Hami, - II 518 pp., 3 plates hors-texte. Volume VI (1780), de la musique des Chinois, essai sur les pierres sonores - observations sur le livre de M. Pxx - mort de l'Impératrice Mère II-380 pp. 32 plates hors-texte of which 1 folding. Volume VII (1782), military art of the Chinese, XI-397 pp. 33 plates out of text. Volume VIII (1782): continuation of the portraits of the famous Chinese - supplement to the military art of the Chinese - note on Chinese pottery - essay on the pleasure gardens of the Chinese, VIII- 375 pp., 30 plates hors-texte. Volume IX (1783): la fête des ouen-cheou - instructions sublimes de Chen-Tzu_Quogen - essais sur la langue et les caractères des Chinois XXIV-470 pp., 12 plates hors-texte of which 1 folding. Volume X (1784): continuation of the lives and portraits of famous Chinese - thoughts, maxims and proverbs, general table of contents of the previous 10 volumes. X-510 pages. Volume XI (1786): the garden of the Sage SSé-ma-Kouang - meteorological and astronomical chronicles - woollen animals in China - preparation of small indigo - use of meat - observations on plants, flowers and trees - notes on astronomical objects - practical arts in China, on horses, on peonies etc. XXIV-609 pp. 1 plate. Volume XII (1786): Life of Koung-Tsée (Confucius)- genealogical tree of the house of Koung-Tsée, VII-532 pp. 17 plates, explanations of plates page 430. Volume XIII (1788): abridged account of the lives of Koung-Tsé's disciples - Tartar-Manchu grammar Tartar-Manchu grammar - chronological abridgement of the universal history of the Chinese Empire - essay on the long life of men in the antiq -. especially in China - notice on bees and wax - notice on the swallow - some pieces of Chinese poetry, XVI-543 pp. 3 plates Tome XIV (1789): des peuples tributaires de la Chine, XVI-561 pages Tome XV (1791): parallèle des mœurs et usages des chinois avec ceux décrits dans le livre d'Esther - divers extraits de lettres - abrégé de l'histoire chinoise de la grande dynastie Tang, XX-516 pages, frontispiece engraving portrait of Amyot by Panzi. Volume XVI (1814) published in Paris by Treuttel et Würtz, half bound: Avertissement de Silvestre de Sacy et A. de Rémusat - suite de l'abrégé de l'histoire chinoise de la grande dynastie Tang - sur les mahométans, VI-396 pages. (Pagination errors after 288 to 297) We enclose the extract from the BEFEO 1983 pages 267 to 298 presenting the work by J. Dehergne and the analytical table. Bindings very damaged, interior in very fresh condition; complete set of 169 plates in volumes 1 to IX and 22 plates in volumes XI to XVI to be included in the collection.
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