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ABEL-REMUSAT, Jean-Pierre. - Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises.

ABEL-REMUSAT, Jean-Pierre. -  Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises.
ABEL-REMUSAT, Jean-Pierre. - Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises.
Published: Paris, Treuttel et Wurtz, 1811
Size: 200 x 130mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: In-8 de (2) ff., X -160 pp., 1 frontispice gravé et 4 tableaux dépliants gravés par Miller ; veau jaspé, dos plat orné de motifs dorés, roulette dorée sur les coupes (reliure de l'époque). Dos refait.

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Rare première édition. "Médecin (Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat), il étudie le chinois et publie un Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises en 1811. En 1814, il est nommé professeur au Collège de France, où il est titulaire de la chaire de langue et littérature chinoises et tartares-mandchoues. Il est élu membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres en 1815. En 1824, il est nommé conservateur des manuscrits orientaux de la Bibliothèque royale, dont il devient président du Conservatoire en 1832. Il est l'un des fondateurs en 1822 de la Société asiatique, dont il est le secrétaire jusqu'à sa mort. Il participe également aux cours de l'École des langues orientales, rattaché à la Bibliothèque nationale."

Provenance : Ex-libris gravé du bibliophile Borluut de Noortdonck et ex-libris armorié de la "Bibliotheca Lindesiana".

Ex-libris du bibliophile Borluut de Noortdonck :
Le cabinet de François-Xavier Borluut passait, avec raison, pour le plus beau, le plus riche et le plus précieux que jamais particulier ait formé en Belgique. Moins nombreux que les bibliothèques de Jean-François Van de Velde (Gand, 1832) et de Pierre-Philippe-Constant Lammens (Gand, 1839), moins volumineux que celle de Charles Van Hulthem (Gand, 1836-1837), qui était devenue la propriété de l’État, le cabinet de Borluut l’emportait sur ces collections par le choix des ouvrages et la beauté des exemplaires qu’il renfermait, et par leur admirable conservation et l’élégance de leur reliure. Borluut lisait tous ses livres, leur joignant de remarquables notes bibliographiques, qui furent heureusement conservées par le rédacteur des catalogues de sa vente.

Rare first edition.- The French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Remusat (September 5, 1788 - June 2, 1832) was born in Paris and educated for the medical profession, but a Chinese herbal in the collection of the Abbe Tersan attracted his attention, and he taught himself to read it by great perseverance and with imperfect help. At the end of five years of study he produced in 1811 the work "Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises".- Lightly browned and slightly brown stained, spine renewed.

The bookplate is a typical armorial of the mid-nineteenth century with name Bibliotheca Lindesiana below the arms (Lindsay quartering Abernethy) and the crest and motto above (endure fort: endure boldly).
"The library's origins may be said to go back to the late sixteenth century with the establishment of the Lindsay family at Balcarres in Fife by Lord Menmuir, whose bibliophilic son David, the first Lord Balcarres, augmented it to a position of distinction among Scottish libraries. Its status was severely reduced through succeeding years and generations until the mid-nineteenth century and the appearance of Alexander William, twenty-fifth earl of Crawford and eighth earl of Balcarres (1812-1880, called Lord Lindsay for most of his life)."
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