Sujets de compositions données aux examens de langue chinoise à Hanoi et Saigon de 1930 à 1940

A$350 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

[Hanoi? Saigon? : Commission centrale d examens de langues orientales, c.1940]. Quarto, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt Examens de langues orientales and initials P. D. , patterned endpapers, rear pastedown with binder s ticket of P. Nguyen-Van-Chau (Saigon and Phnom-Penh), title leaf + 132 ff, rectos of odd-numbered leaves with neat manuscript Chinese translations from the French, rectos of even-numbered leaves with corresponding roneo-printed French compositions, versos blank; clean throughout; loosely enclosed at rear is a second collection of French compositions and Chinese translations in identical format, but from the year 1942, in original stitched paper wrappers, approximately [30] ff; fine. This unique, locally bound collection of French compositions and sample translations into Chinese, set for the examinations of the Commission centrale d examens de langues orientales , presumably belonged to one of the Commission s language instructors ( P. D. ). A fascinating relic of the French colonial administration in Indo-China.

• Binding: Hardcover

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