Paris, Chez Musier [et al.], 1737.
Meditationes Sinicae, in quibus: I. Consideratur Linguae Philosophicae atque Universalis Natura qualis esse… II. Lingua Sinarum mandarinica, tum in Hieroglyphis, tum in Monosyllabis suis… III. Datur eorumdem Hieroglyphorum, ac Monosyllaborum… IV.
Scarce first and sole edition of the author’s first work: an elaborate treatise on the Chinese [South Mandarin] language, “the second grammar to be published in Europe, preceded only by Bayer’s grammatical account [St. Petersburg, 1730]” (Löwendahl). As the first work printed with engraved Chinese type in France, Fourmont’s Meditationes..... More