[Rarebooks] fs-The first Chinese Work Translated into English--in French

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

STAUNTON, Georges Thomas (trans.).  Ta-Tsing-Leu-Lee, Ou les
lois Fondamentales du Code Penal de la Chine . . . originairement
imprime et publie a Pekin . . . Mis en Francais, avec des Notes,
par M. Felix Renouard de Sainte-Croix [etc.]. Two Volumes.  Chez
Lenormant, Libraire, Rue de Seine, n 8 [etc.]., Paris, 1812.  1/4
crimson morocco, gilt, light foxing and browning; a good set.
[69046] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69046
                                                        $ 1,500.00

The French edition of the first work translated from Chinese into
English (printed at London in 1810), China's Fundamental Law, both
constitutional, civil & penal, with the emphasis upon the last; a
rare work, two copies in the National Union Catalog.


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