Les memoires historiques de Se-Ma Ts'ien traduits et annotes

by Sima Qian, trans Edouard Chavannes

$300 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Paris: Librairie d'Amerique et d'Orient Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1967. Facsimile edition, 5 vols., 8vo, original full blue cloth, gilt title on spines; fine. Se-ma Ts'ien Sima Qian c. 145 BC – c. 86 BC is considered the father of Chinese historiography. His magnum opus, the Shiji, was expansive both temporally, covering legendary times to contemporary events, and geographically, expanding past China and into the entirety of the

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