GUIGNES (Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de). Chinese, French and Latin dictionary. Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1813. Fort in-folio, (4), LVI, 980 ff. original edition of the first Chinese dictionary printed in a Western language. It is based on the unpublished work of Basile de Gemona, who described and translated over 7,000 ideograms into Latin between 1694 and 1699. More than 14,000 characters are represented in this edition of the dictionary, thanks in particular to the "Buis du Régent", characters engraved between 1718 and 1745 under the direction of Étienne Fourmont. The publishing venture was only taken over by De Guignes fils at Napoleon's instigation in 1808. Bound in later half-brown basane, 5-ribbed spine, flowered boards. (incomplete copy of the "Dictionnaire chinois par tons", generally occupying the last 132 pages, and of the errata leaf, binding rubbed, title page slightly short in width).