JULIEN, Stanislas (1799-1873), French sinologist,... - Lot 326 - Gros & Delettrez

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JULIEN, Stanislas (1799-1873), French sinologist,... - Lot 326 - Gros & Delettrez
JULIEN, Stanislas (1799-1873), French sinologist, he was the greatest grammarian and translator of Chinese of his time and held the chair of Chinese and Tartar-Manchu language and literature at the Collège de France, from 1832 to 1873. Important set of 28 L.A.S. to various correspondents : Ch. Lenormant, Young, Jean-Baptiste Brot, Desnoyers (of the Museum), Paris, 1838-1869. About 32 pp. in-8. Some mails pasted on a margin. Fascinating correspondence devoted to the study of Chinese. His Chinese objects: "A Chinese junk all in ivory, cut out like a lace, which occupies almost the whole area. This object of great curiosity must have cost the artist an enormous amount of time and required a delicate talent that would be hard to find in Europe. His works and in particular his work on porcelain with " 1° The technical preface of M. Salvétat 2° The small geological map of M. de St. Martin 3° The 14 drawings traced on the Chinese original " and waits for an article on this subject; " I hasten to communicate to you a letter of the famous orientalist [Christian] Lassen who speaks about the translator of the Tcheou-li, in terms as just as honorable. I am working very actively to compile, on maps, the names of persons, things and places of which my two indexes, Sanskrit and Chinese, will be composed. But although I am still far from having finished, this patient and meticulous work has already given me more trouble than the French translation. Mr. Mohl [the orientalist Jules Mohl] thinks that in order to get to the point quickly, I would do well to ask first for the printing of the French text [...]". He also mentions many of his colleagues and interlocutors: Constantin de Skatschkoff, former Consul General of Russia in China; Rivoir, Consul of China; Baron Gras, Amiot, Duprat, Jean Henri Plash (of the University of Munich) and his works, numerous purchases and sales of Chinese books, sometimes quoted in Chinese characters, a long geographical description of the Ta-ta kingdom, the Egyptian inscriptions of Brugsch, a translation of Schott, etc.
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