新編對相四言 / 15th century illustrated Chinese primer. Hsin-pien tui-hsiang szu-yen. Facsimile reproduction with introduction and notes

by L. Carrington Goodrich, intro

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967. 10½ x 7 , pp. 42 ; brown printed wrappers; stab-stitched Chinese style; one corner bumped, very slight evidence of old label residue on upper wrapper; near fine. Hsin-pien tui-hsiang szu-yen is likely the first illustrated vocabulary in existence, with the first edition published in 1436 and predating the West's oldest picture vocabulary Orbis Sensualium Pictus by two hundred years. The Columbia copy,

• Binding: Wrappers

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