PÊTILLON, Corentin. Allusions littéraires ... Premier fascicule, classifiques 1 a 100. Deuxième édition. Shanghai, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique a l'orphelinat de T'Ou-Sè-Wè, 1909.
8vo. Contemporary dark brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; pp. [2], v, 599, 82; cloth a little worn around egdes, internally very clean, apart from occasional light browning; provenance: printed label of the French Bookstore in Peiping [beijing] inside rear cover.
A continuation of this philological study into the workings of the Chinese language, written by a French Jesuit in China appeared the following year in Variétés sinologiques, of which series this is number 8.
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