方言疏證 / Fangyan shuzheng = Regional words, annotated

by Xiong Yang, Dai Zhen

$200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Shanghai: Zhonghua Book Company, ca 1930 . Stab stitched book, 13 juan plus appendix; text in Chinese; printed paper wrappers; owner's seal on title page and a couple internal pages, corner bumped, 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,

• Binding: Wrappers

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