Lot 275: MAURICE COURANT,

Bibliographie Cor‚enne: Tableau Litt‚raire de la Cor‚e, contenant la nomenclature des ouvrages publi‚s dans ce pays jusqu'en 1890 ainsi que la d‚scription et l'analyse d‚taill‚s des principaux d'entre ces ouvrages ; 3 vols. and a supplementary vol., Vols. XVIII, XIX, XX and suppl. Vol. XXI to 3rd series, Publications de l'Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes (Paris: L'Ecoles des Langues Orientales Vivantes, 1894 [vols. 1-3, XVIII, XIX, XX]) and (Paris: Imprim‚rie Nationale, 1901 [suppl. vol., XXI]); large 8vo., most folded pages uncut, paper wrappers printed with titles as above, some edges of corners torn or dog-eared, light foxing throughout, edges and some pages toned, spines splitting Contents: vol. 1, pp. i-ccxv; 1-499; blank p., errata, blank p.: preface and introductory sections on terms, references, table of phonetics, books 1-4, divided into chapters on teaching, language study (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Confucianism, literature (Chinese and Korean); tipped-in b/w fold-out plates, unless noted otherwise: pl. I, Korean syllabary; pl. II, pg. from Tehyen tja moun (The book of a thousand words), seal characters in black on white, cursive characters in white on black; pl. III, pg. from a child's book; pl. IV, single-page, title pg. of dictionary made by royal commission, 1889; notice that pls. V, VI are placed at the back of vol. 2 (thus); pl. V.2, page from a Chinese-Manchurian dictionary; pl. VII, single-page, title of a Japanese language manual in Korean, Japanese kana characters and Chinese; pl. VIII, Confucian diagrams and explanatory text; pl. IX, pg. from royal decrees; pl. X, pg. from 1910 geneological records of royal house of Korea; vol. 2, pp. i-ix, 1-535, blank pg., 2 pp. errata, emblem of a Japanese printer: books 5-6, divided into chapters on customs and costumes, history and geography, b/w tipped-in fold-out plates in the following order: pl. I, royal standards; pl. VI, royal catafalque; pl. IV, royal banquet hall; pl. V, dancing cranes and altar; pl. VII, lowering of the royal casket; pl. II, royal cortege; pl. III, departure of the royal cortege; pl. VIII, pg. from book on seal characters; pl. IX, pg. from book on geography in Chinese characters with hangul margin notations; pl. X, map of the world; pl. XI, map of Korea; pl. XII, map of China; pl. XIII, map of Seoul and outskirts; vol. 3, pp. i-ix, 1-446, index i-clxxvii, errata, emblem of a Japanese printer: books 7-9, divided into chapters on science and art, astronomy, divination, astrology, military arts, medicine, agriculture and sericulture, music, design, Daoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, treaties and conventions, commercial documents, books; b/w tipped-in fold-out plates: pl. I, official calendar; pl. II, popular calendar; pl. III, celestial chart; pl. IV, three-headed bird diagram against the Three Plagues, divination chapter; pl. V, music chart on the qin (Kor.: keum ) instrument in Chinese and hangul ; pls. VI, VII, VIII views of gates, pl. IX, hexagonal pavilion, at Syou ouen; pl. X, altar of protecting gods, Syou ouen; pl. XI, diagram of the Five Sacred Mountains, chapter on Daoism; pls. XII, XIII, two segments of Buddhist texts; pl. XIV, pg. from Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha Purvapranidhana sutra ; pl. XV, pg. from a collection of prayers in Sanskrit, in Sanskrit, Chinese and hangul, tipped-in upside-down; 2 photographic reprints of pls. marked vol. I, pl. VI, vol. I, pl. V; suppl. vol., pp. i-x, 1-122, text only, with alternate title to vols. 1-3 Suppl‚ment … la Bibliographie Cor‚enne (jusqu'en 1899) : books 1-9, divided into chapters on teaching, language study, Confucianism, literature, customs and costumes, history and geography, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, divination, military arts, medicine, agriculture and sericulture, music. design, Daoism, Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, treaties and conventions, commercial documents, books, index, Chinese character/Korean transliteration index (4).