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KLAPROTH, H.J.

Plates and maps to accompany the San Kokf Tsou Ran To Sets, ou Aperçu général des trois royaumes, traduit de l'original Japonais-Chinois

Paris
Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
1832

€1.000 - €1.600

4to, atlas volume only, without the text volume. Illustrated with 2 engraved plates and 5 large engraved folding maps, contemp. hand-coloured, of Japan, Corea, China, Ainu, printed on very thick paper. Some dust in the margins, but complete for the atlas part, maps itself clean. Tears in title-page. Disbound, cloth cover worn

Scarce. Ref. Cordier, Bibl. Japonica 462 Of greatest interest is ALPHABET ET SYLLABAIRE CORÉEN, showing 205 Hangul characters and their sounds written in romanized letters alongside. This is the first time the Korean Hangul characters were published in the West. Map 1: ""Carte des Trois Royaumes"" Japan and Korea, as well as parts of China and Russia Map 2: ""Carte des Huit Provinces du Tchao Sian."" [Chosen or Corea] Map 3: ""Carte de L'Ile de Ieso"" Map 4: ""Carte des Iles Riou Kiou"" Map 5: Carte de Iles Inhabités ou Mou Nin Sima

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