Author: CALLERY (CALLERI), GIUSEPPE GAETANO MASSIMO PIETRO MARIA (Transl. & Ed.):
Title: ... Li-ki ou Mémorial des rites traduit pour la prémière fois du chinois, et accompagné de notes, de commentaires et du texte original. Turin, Imprimerie Royal, & (Chinese text) Paris, Benjamin Duprat, 1853.
Description: . 4to. Pp. (ii), xxxii, 199 + pp. 98 with Chinese lithographed text. Contemporary roan with elaborated decoration in gilt on covers and spine, g.e., marbled endpapers. A specially made binding with gilt inscription "New Year's gift. A.S.". Partly with some minor staining but otherwise a very good copy.First edition. It's a translation of parts of the Li Ki (Book of Rites), which is one of the Five Chinese Classics and comprises texts about Chinese religious practices from the eighth to the fifth century B.C. The text includes numerous information of the Chinese culture from ancient time. Calleri (1810-76) moved to Macau in 1836 where he studied Chinese under the renowned sinologist Joachim Alfonso Gonçalves. The first complete translation of the Li Ki was made by James Legge and appeared in 1885. Cordier BS 1383. Löwendahl 1137.

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