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).
