方言 / Fangyan = Dictionary of dialectical words

by Xiong Yang, Guo Pu

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Beijing: Zhili Bookstore, 1923. Facsimile after the 1784 edition, two volumes in 13 juan plus 1 addendum; text in Chinese; stab stitched drab paper wrappers; cover labels partially perished, a couple leaves split at fore-edge, manuscript annotations on upper covers, string snapped but binding holding soundly, good. The Fangyan, compiled by Yang Xiong in the Han Dynasty around the first century BCE, was the first dialect dictionary in the history of Chinese

• Binding: Wrappers

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