Stock ID #174613 Meng Tseu: vel Mencium, inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum, edidit, latina interpretatione ad interpretationem tartaricam utramque recensita instruxit et perpetuo commentario e sinicis deprompto illustravit. STANISLAUS JULIEN.
Meng Tseu: vel Mencium, inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum, edidit, latina interpretatione ad interpretationem tartaricam utramque recensita instruxit et perpetuo commentario e sinicis deprompto illustravit.
Meng Tseu: vel Mencium, inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum, edidit, latina interpretatione ad interpretationem tartaricam utramque recensita instruxit et perpetuo commentario e sinicis deprompto illustravit.
Meng Tseu: vel Mencium, inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum, edidit, latina interpretatione ad interpretationem tartaricam utramque recensita instruxit et perpetuo commentario e sinicis deprompto illustravit.
Meng Tseu: vel Mencium, inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum, edidit, latina interpretatione ad interpretationem tartaricam utramque recensita instruxit et perpetuo commentario e sinicis deprompto illustravit.
Meng Tseu: vel Mencium, inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum, edidit, latina interpretatione ad interpretationem tartaricam utramque recensita instruxit et perpetuo commentario e sinicis deprompto illustravit.

Meng Tseu: vel Mencium, inter Sinenses philosophos ingenio, doctrina, nominisque claritate Confucio proximum,
edidit, latina interpretatione ad interpretationem tartaricam utramque recensita instruxit et perpetuo commentario e sinicis deprompto illustravit.

Lutetiae Parisiorum. 1824-1829. Stock ID #174613

1824, 1826, 1829. Latin text: 2 parts (each part in 2 parts ie 4 parts in all) bound in 2 volumes. Pars prior (1824), xxxi-132pp., Partis prioris continuatio (1826), 133pp -230pp; Pars posterior (1826), 118pp.; Partis posterioris continuatio (1829), 123 - 248pp, indices tum nomina propria tum mencianam phraseologiam complectentes, 84pp.

Original marbled boards with new linen spines, title lettered in gilt, new endpapers, lacks 2 blank preliminary leaves. Some insect damage to the prelims of volume II, boards rubbed, but clean copies (rag paper) with no foxing. Societatis Asiaticae ae et Comitis de Lasteyrie Impensis (Joint publication given by the Asian Society and the Count of Lasteyrie). As specified on the title page. Includes 20pp Brevis Tractatus in Quatuor Litteras Sinicas. Does not include the Chinese text which was published separately. See page 98 Lowendahl; Lust 734.

This Latin translation of the work of Mencius printed in 1824, 1826 and 1829 in Paris, London Stuttgart and Tubingen, is by A.S. Julien, eminent sinologist, student of Abel Rémusat at the Collège de France. A brilliant scholar but somewhat difficult man, Julien translated many of the greatest texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition into Latin. He is regarded as one of the greatest sinologists of the 19th century.

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