突厥语大词典 / Tujue yu da ci dian = Compendium of the languages of the Turks

by Mahmud Kashgari

$200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Beijing: Publishing House of Minority Nationalities, 2002. 8vo, three vols., pp. 4 , 13, 5 , 554; 2 , 378; 2 , 439, 3 ; Turkish entries with Chinese definitions, decorated blue boards, fine. The Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Turkish languages and was first compiled in the late 11th century. This is the Chinese translation of that work. Item #69970

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