RAQUETTE, Gustaf Rikard.

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A Contribution to the Existing Knowledge of the Eastern-Turkestan Dialect, First editions, first printings, all uncommon in commerce, of four linguistic studies of southern Xinjiang by the scholar-missionary Gustaf Raquette and his student, the diplomat Gunnar Jarring. This Sammelband includes Jarring's translation, with the original text, of the fascinating poem "The Contest of the Fruits", a 19th-century satire in which various fruits outdo each other with boasts and rebuttal.Raquette's A Contribution features translations of ten short works of literature and poetry, accompanied by the original texts with linguistic notes.

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