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Bonaparte (Prince Roland)

Documents de l’époque mongole des XIIIe et XIVe siècles

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600 €

Inscriptions en 6 langues  de la porte de Kiu-yong koan, près Pékin ; lettres, stèles et monnaies en écriture ouïgoure et ’phags-pa dont les originaux ou les estampages existent en France. P. chez l’auteur, 1895.

Folio (55×40 cm). 12 text-pages & 15 (3 double-page) plates. Loose in green gilt-stamped (and numbered) cloth portfolio.

Mint copy printed on vergé.

We add the second edition, 1896, original printed wrappers, 11 pp., 4 pl. (3 folding).

Written by & printed for the French geographer Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano (1858-1924) concerning 14th-cent. inscriptions in 6 different languages (Chinese, Mongolian (‘Phags-pa), Old Uyghur, Sanskrit, Tangut (Xi-Xia) & Tibetan) in a famous gate known as 居庸關雲臺 (居庸关云台)

 “The Cloud Platform at Juyongguan” (situated near Beijing in the Guangou Valley at the Juyongguan Pass of the Great Wall of China).

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Category:Books (127)
Country:Chine (99)Mongolie (2)
Geographical area:Asie centrale et septentrionale (5)

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