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Paris, Chez Caille et Ravier, Imprimerie de Chaignieau Ainé, 1818.. 12°, contemporary green quarter sheep over marbled boards (slight wear to corners), flat spine with gilt fillets and lettering, marbled endleaves, text-block edges sprinkled green and brown. Light to middling dampstain (about 5 x 4 x 3 cm.) in lower inner corner of plate. In very good condition. Stamp of Constantino V.C. Cabral // Rua Stª Catharina-140-Porto in lower blank margin of title page. Engraved portrait of Confucius, (2 ll.), 221 pp. *** The 80 maxims of Confucius occupy pp. 147-76. Simon Foucher's "Lettre sur la morale de Confucius" begins on p. [177] and continues to the end of the book. Both La morale, including the maxims, and Foucher's letter originally appeared separately in 1688. They were first published together in 1783.The earlier parts about Confucius are attributed to Jean de La Brune by Jean Bernard, and to Louis Cousin by Barbier and Quérard.*** Cordier, Sinica, II, 1394.

Chez Pierre Savouret, Amsterdam, 1688. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Book Collectible copy of the first French printing of sayings by Confucius. British Museum Short-title Catalogue of Books in French 1601-1700, C1371b. The Bodleian Library at Oxford holds John Locke's copy of this book (Locke 7.262a). Jesuit missionaries in China introduced the Analects of Confucius to the West with the publication in Latin of "Confucius Sinarum philosophus" in 1687. This book followed the next year, not as a complete version of the Analects, but as a compilation that presented Confucius' ethics. In the introduction (Avertissement), the unnamed editor says the public is indebted "to the fathers Intorcetta & Couplet, Jesuits, who translated, from Chinese into Latin, the three books of Confucius, from which we have drawn this piece of morality" (p. [13]). In keeping with the Jesuit's syncretism between Confucianism and Catholicism, the editor presents Confucius as a moralist who drew… Read More