Ch.: Qing wen bu hui 清文補彙, Ma.: Manju gisun be niyeceme isabuha bithe Manchu Collected, Supplemented

by Ihing 宜興, or Yi-Xing

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Eight vols. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. China : 1802 date of colophon . Second edition of this landmark Manchu-Chinese dictionary, the last of the great Manchu dictionaries of the 18th century. Ihing first published his dictionary privately in 1786, the date of the Preface. We know of only one copy of this edition, held at a Chinese library. All other copies in circulation are, to the best of our knowledge, of the second

• Binding: Wrappers

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