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  Rare second revised and enlarged edition of Giles' monumental Chinese-English Dictionary

  GILES, Herbert A.

  A Chinese-English Dictionary.

  Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, & Yokahama: Kelly & Walsh, Limited and London: Bernard Quaritch, 1912.

  Finley bound second revised and enlarged edition of Giles' monumental work, the first Chinese–English encyclopedic dictionary published. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, rebacked, all edges marbled. The present enlarged edition contains the original 13,848 Chinese character head entries alphabetically collated by Beijing Mandarin pronunciation romanized in the Wade–Giles system with the addition of 67 entries and numerous usage examples. In very good condition. Exceptionally clean internally. A nice example of the most complete Chinese-English dictionary ever published.

  Price: $1,750.00     Item Number: 138229

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  First Edition of Herbert A. Giles' A Chinese Biographical Dictionary

  GILES, Herbert A.

  A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.

  London: Bernard Quaritch and Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1898.

  First edition of Giles' Prix Julien award-winning work which "enjoys pride of place in the history of Chinese bilingual dictionaries as the authoritative source for the Wade-Giles system of Romanization" (Yong and Peng). Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original publisher's wrappers bound in. In very good condition.

  Price: $1,250.00     Item Number: 138772

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