Julius Heinrich Klaproth
Biblioteca
Catalogue des livres imprimés, des manuscrits et des ouvrages Chinois, Tartares, Japonais, etc. composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Klaproth, Paris, R. Merlin 1839, 2 vol. (XII + 308; XIII + 80 p.), in 8º.
Visualizza PDFCatalogue des livres imprimés, des manuscrits et des ouvrages Chinois, Tartares, Japonais, etc. composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Klaproth, Paris, R. Merlin 1839, 2 vol. (XII + 308; XIII + 80 p.), in 8º.
The sale catalogue published shortly after Julius Klaproth’s death consists of two parts and an alphabetical index of authors’ names. The first part also has a Table alphabétique des ouvrages sans noms d’auteurs, while the second contains a Liste alphabétique des ouvrages. At the end of each part there is a Table des divisions. Each part opens with a Notice preliminaire, the first one anonymous, the second drafted by the orientalist Clerc de Landresse; they describe the contents of the library and describe the classification systems used. The first volume divides the 1937 titles, all numbered – according to the traditional method of Parisian booksellers – in 5 classes, which are then subdivided: Théologie, Jurisprudence, Sciences et arts, Belles lettres, Histoire.
The second part contains “the collection of Chinese, Tatar, and Japanese books and manuscripts” and lists 203 titles. The Notice préliminaire by Landresse is in the opinion of the anonymous compiler of the first part a nothing less than a “compendium of Chinese literary history, which will assure Klaproth’s catalogue a place in all research libraries,” while Landresse himself judged his own text “a bibliographic labor of no little interest.”