Necrologie. Henri Cordier par Paul Pelliot cover title

by Paul Pelliot

$60 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Leide: E. J. Brill, 1925. Extracted from T'oung-pao, Vol. XXIV, no. 1; 8vo, pp. 15, 1 ; portrait frontispiece; recent full navy cloth, gilt title on board, original covers bound in, fine. Calling card of widow Madame Vve. Henri Cordier laid in. Cordier was a prominent sinologist and editor of the Bibliotheca Sinica. He was also the first French editor of the journal T'oung-pao, which remains in print. Pelliot was the French editor of the journal at the time

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