方言譯 / Fangyan yi = Dialect translation

by Xiong Yang, Guo Pu, Ding Weifen

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Taipei? Gu Ya Tang, ca. 1950s . Stab-stitched book, 13 juan in 2 volumes, 147 leaves; text in Traditional Chinese; printed paper wrappers; light soiling to wrappers and bumping to corners, near fine. 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 lexicography and is thought to be the first of its kind in the history of world lexicography. Yong and Peng, Chinese

• Binding: Wrappers

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