Dictionnaire Ordos

by Antoine Mostaert

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Peking i.e., Beijing : Catholic University, 1941-44. First edition, 3 volumes, large 4to, pp. xii, 2 , 390; 8 , 391-767, 1 ; 6 , 769 -950, 2 ; original printed wrappers; wrappers with a few small chips at extremities; otherwise about fine throughout. The dialect of Ordos is spoken on a desert plateau in the southern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China. Antoine Mostaert 1881-1971 was a Belgian Roman Catholic missionary in China. He

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