DESGODINS, Auguste.
Essai de grammaire Thibétaine pour le langage parlé, avec alphabet et prononciation.
Hongkong, Imprimerie de Nazareth, 1899. 12mo. With the printing offices device (an Asian style temple with "Nazareth", "venite seorsum" and an "ME" monogram with cross) on the title-page and several tailpieces. Original publishers half tan morocco, sewn on 3 recessed cords but with 4 false raised band on the spine, with "GRAMMAIRE|THIBÉTAINE" in gold in the 2nd compartment and the printer-publishers "ME" monogram with cross at the foot of the fifth, "Gustav"-marbled sides (tan on yellow), decorated endpapers (printed in imitation of Spanish marbled paper), sprinkled edges. [9], 91, [1] pp.
€ 2,950
Auguste Desgodins (1826-1913) left for Tibet in 1855 as a Catholic missionary and stayed there for 25 years. He held a prominent place among the French Missionaries and pioneered the study of the Tibetan language and literature. He also founded Pedong and was the author of a Tibetan-French-Latin dictionary.
Good copy of a very rare work with library stamp of the Biblioteque des Missions Estrangères de Paris and their stamped catalogue number "723". Cordier, Sinica 2937.
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