Chinese manual.
Subtitle: Sse tse ouen tsien tchou ... Four words literature (with) commentary (or) explication. Recueil de phrases chinoises, composées de quare caractères et dont les explications sont rangées dans l'ordre alphabétique franc̜ais.
Contributors: Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903.
Publisher: Printed by Harrison and Sons
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Chinese language -- Conversation and phrase books.
Notes: Preliminary matter printed and text lithographed on blue paper.  Chinese characters, wth roman transliteration, and translation in French and English. (The Latin translation of the original work has been replaced by the English translation.)
Preface signed: H. Stanley.
"This collection of phrases is believed to be a fragment of a very extensive work by some one of the French Jesuit missionaries in China."--Pref.
"Cet ouvrage est de l'abbé de Lionne, évêque de Rosalie, de la Congrégation des mission étrangères.  Ce ms. provient de la bibliothèque de Deguignes fils (no. 497 du cat. de sa bibliothèque) et c'est lui qui ajouté le titre franc̜ais."--Cordier, Bibl. sinica. vol. III (1906-07) col. 1687.