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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None Stated (illustrator). First edition. A substantial two-volume linguistic survey of the minority languages and scripts of south-western China, produced from the French Mission d"Ollone, illustrated with plates and folding maps. In a later cloth binding with the original paper wraps bound-in.First editions.A collection of two volumes issued as part of the results of the Mission d"Ollone (1906-1909), a French exploratory expedition undertaken to document the geography, languages, and peoples of south-western China.The first volume, Écritures des Peuples Non Chinois de la Chine, examines the writing systems of minority peoples of south-western China, particularly the Lolo (Yi) and Miao groups. The work includes four substantial dictionaries reproducing indigenous scripts in facsimile with commentary. Illustrated with nine monochrome plates including a frontispiece, one of which is a folding plate, and a fold-out map to the rear. Collated, complete.The second volume, Langues des Peuples Non Chinois de la Chine, presents linguistic studies of the spoken languages of these groups, including vocabularies, phonetic observations, and comparative tables. With a fold-out map to the rear. Collated, complete.Compiled by the French officer Commandant Henri d"Ollone, with contributions from Captain Fleurelle, Captain Lepage, and Lieutenant de Boyve, and produced with the assistance of Monseigneur de Guébriant, Bishop of Kien Tch"ang.An important early European study of the languages and scripts of minority groups in south-western China, documenting the traditions, writing systems and dialects of the region that were little known to Western scholarship at the time. In a later cloth binding with the original paper wraps bound-in.Externally, very smart. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. One or two very minor handling marks to boards. The odd light handling mark and spot to original paper wraps and original endpapers. Bookplate of "Alexander Brown Griswold" to verso of original wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two light spots to fore edge. Two inch closed tear to page 215 of "Langues," not affecting the legibility of the text. Very Good Indeed. book.