FOUCAUX (Philippe-Edouard). Grammaire de la langue tibétaine - Lot 76

FOUCAUX (Philippe-Edouard). Grammaire de la langue tibétaine. Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1858. In-8, XXXII-231 p., period half-fauwn basane, spine ribbed, black title page (head cap worn, rubbed, browned and foxed). First edition of the first French-language Tibetan grammar by orientalist Philippe-Edouard Foucaux (1811-1894). A student of Eugène Burnouf, he taught Tibetan at the Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes, then Sanskrit at the Collège de France. Autograph letter from the author to Léon de Rosny (1837-1914) orientalist and ethnographer, co-founder of the Société d'ethnographie in 1859, then professor of Japanese at the Bibliothèque impériale, interpreter for the Japanese embassy in France, then Holland, England, Prussia and Russia (in 1862), holder of the chair of Japanese at the Ecole spéciale des langues orientales (1868), professor of ethnography at the Collège de France. (Cordier, Sinica, 2933).