REMUSAT (Abel). Recherches sur les langues tartares, ou Mémo - Lot 183

REMUSAT (Abel). Recherches sur les langues tartares, ou Mémoires sur différens points de la grammaire et de la littérature des Mandchous, des Mongols, des Ouigours et des Tibétains. Tome premier [only published]. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1820. In-4, VIII-LI-(1)-398-(2) p., fawn calf, ornate smooth spine, black title page, wide gilt and cold-edged frame on covers, gilt edges [Duplanil] (gilt faded on spine, minor rubbing to covers). First edition. Author's copy on wove paper, with 1 portrait and 4 plates, 1 of which is folding. Interesting provenance, with a bibliographical note from Guillaume Pauthier, who acquired this copy at the Rémusat sale; a note from P. Laffitte, who bought it at the Pauthier sale; and finally, a note from a last enthusiast who acquired this copy from the Geuthner bookshop in 1954; a handwritten bill addressed to M. Pauthier is attached. (Catalogue des livres, imprimés et manuscrits, composant la bibliothèque de feu M. J.-P. Abel-Remusat (1833), n°507; Catalogue des livres chinois composant la bibliothèque de feu M. G. Pauthier (1873), n°222; Cordier, Bibliotheca sinica, col. 2718).