ROSNY (Léon de). Variétés orientales historiques, géographiq - Lot 200

ROSNY (Léon de). Variétés orientales historiques, géographiques, scientifiques, biographiques et littéraires. Paris, Maisonneuve, 1872. In-12, VIII-360 p., period blue half-maroquin, spine with 5 nerves, caissons decorated with an owl in gilt fleurons, author, title and date gilt, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (p.269 torn but not missing). Third revised edition of this collection of articles by Léon de Rosny (1837-1914), orientalist and ethnographer, co-founder of the Société d'ethnographie in 1859, professor of Japanese at the Bibliothèque impériale (1861), 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, Japonica, 531).