Published by Paris, Maisonneuve et Cie, Éditeurs; Avec les types Orientaux de La Revue Orientale et Américaine, chez Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard; 1874, 1876 and 1878. --- Foretitlepage, Titlepage; Pages (49*: 'Première Séance, . . .') - 583 (+1 p.: 'Placement des Planches #1-#57'). / Foretitlep., Titlep.; 4 confusingly* numbered p. (5), 6-32, 33-47, 48; pages (5)-532. / Foretitlep., Titlep.; p. (5)-68, (I)-CXCIV [=1-194]. - Brown mid-20th century library-cloth bindings with white shelf-signatures at upper spines and trace of removed lib.-labels at lower spines., 1878
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8vo.(ca. 21 x 14 x 10 cm; ca. 2,4 kg.). *** FIRST EDITIONS, 3 VOLUMES COMPLETE; WITH 59 OF 62** PARTLY FOLDED, MULTI- OR DOUBLEPAGE-, LITHOGRAPHED AND/OR COLOURED PICTORIAL AND TYPOGRAPHIC PLATES. INITIALLY DEVOTED TO JAPANESE STUDIES, THE CONGRESS PROJECT WAS QUICKLY EXTENDED TO OTHER FIELDS OF ORIENTAL STUDIES in the face of the growing interest of the world scholarly community (Egyptian, Assyriological, Semitic, Indian, Iranian and Dravidian, Neo-Hellenic and Armenian studies, Tartar, Indochinese and Oceanian); the 1st 'Congress' at the Sorbonne in Paris from September 1 to 11, 1873, attracted over 1.000 registrants from more than twenty countries who, for the most part, knew each other only through the circulation of their works; the second 'Congress' took place in London just one year later. . . CONTENT: 1) 'Découvertés d'Antiquité préhistoriques dans la Province de Kawatsi, (Japon)'; 2) 'Antiquité de la Province de Kawati[!]'; 3)-6) 'Ancien Miroir[s] japonais'; 7) 'Les Couleurs des Japonais; 8) 'Monnaies japonaises'; 9)-37) Monnaies d'Or; 38) 'Aiguière, conservée dans la Pagode Hau-ryô zi'; 39) 'Aigière d'Argent de la Collection Seillière'; 40) 'Inscription du temple de Ha-se'; 41) 'La grande Déesse Ten-Syau-Dai-Zin (fac-similed'un dessin original japonais)', [42]) 'Les trois types japonais', 43) 'Carte du pays de Tesiho', 44)-46) 'Ethnographie kourilienne, types Aïno 3 pl. de tirages photoglyptiques ovales montés sur papier'(missing!)', 47) 'Les Trois Soirées de la Poésie japonaise'', 48) 'Poésies du Man-yó-siu [Man yo shu]', [49]) 'Problème des beaux-fils', 50)-51) 'La plante Ai (Indigo des Japonais)', 52) 'Fossiles japonais', 53) 'Texte japonais (style épistolaire)', 54) 'Vocabulaire comparé des langues finno-japonaises', 55) 'Esquisse de la carte préhistorique de l'Asie', 56)-57) 'Instruments en pierre des sauvages de l'Océanie', 58) 'Fragment du Rituel de Nebkat', [59]) 'Inscription Suisienne de Koul-Firaoun', 60) 'Inscription Carthaginoise de Sulci', 61) 'Stèle de Saba (Inscription Himyarite), Arabie', 62) 'Manuscrit arménien de la Bibliothèque Nationale'. - *) THE PAGINATION OF VOLUME I AND VOLUME II STARTS CONFUSINGLY, but is explained in the footnote of pages (5)-6/32 [1 sheet!] in volume II: ''La liste des membres et souscripteurs de la Première Session . . . a pris un tel accroissement, . . ., que les trois feuilles [=48 pages] que nous avions reservées en tête du premier volume pour la publication de cette liste, se sont trouvées trop étroites pour la contenir. Nous nous sommes donc vus dans la nécessité de la renvoyer à la fin du troisième volume.''[=''The list of members and subscribers of the First Session. . . took such an increase, . . ., that the three sheets [=48 pages] that we had reserved at the beginning of the first volume for the publication of this list, were found to be too narrow to contain it. We therefore saw ourselves in the need to send it back to the end of the third volume.''] Therefore Volume I starts with page #49 and it seems to be nothing but a reference to that number of 48 ommitted pages that the very first 4 pages of volume II - with a general introduction to the edition incl. the footnote mentioned above - are numbered ('5'), '6-32', '33-47' and '48'. The text of volume II then starts with page (5). Although the introduction states the number ''67 planches'' the list of 62 is definitely complete and confirmed by the indexes (the amount of '67' may result of a singlewise counting of multipage plates which are counted as one in the plates' index. - The verso of all 3 titlepage wear old round library-stamps of the 'Institut für vorderasiat[ische] Altertumskunde Berlin' and younger official deletion-stamps, the same marks appear on page (5) in volume II. --- **) BESIDE THE MISSING PLATES 44-46 THE SET IS COMPLETE AND IN BEST CONDITION.