China.- Astronomy.- Schlegel (Gustave) Sing Chin Khao Youen. Uranographie Chinoise, ou preuves directes que l'Astonomie Primitive est Originaire de la Chine..., 2 parts text & Atlas bound in 2 vol., only edition, titles in red & black, some Chinese text, text with diagrams and folding table (creased at edge), Atlas with double-page title and 7 celestial maps in red & black, folding leaf of text, very occasional spotting, modern roan-backed cloth, corners bumped, second volume a little marked, a very good set, [Houzeau & Lancaster 609], large 8vo, The Hague and Leiden, E.J.Brill, 1875.
⁂ Scholarly historical treatise of Chinese astronomy and the mapping of the heavens, often lacking the scarce atlas volume. Gustave Schelegel (1840-1903), a celebrated Dutch sinologist and field naturalist, begun studying Chinese at the age of nine and made his first trip to China at the age of seventeen. In 1866 he published a monograph on the Tiandihiu (Heaven and Earth Society) but is best known for his magnum opus, a Dutch-Chinese dictionary published in 4 volumes between 1882 and 1891.
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