Cordier: Bibliotheca Sinica

BS 2.0 honours one of the most extensive bibliographies on this topic ever published: The Bibliotheca Sinica by Henri Cordier (1849-1925).

Henri Cordier:  Bibliotheca sinica. Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l’Empire chinois (Paris: E. Leroux 1878-1895) [3 vol.]

• First edition:
  • T. 1 (1878) gallica
  • T. 2 (1885) gallica
  • T. 1  Supplement (1895)  gallica
• Entry in Wiener China-Bibliographie

• Second edition:
  • T. 1 (1904) gallica
  • T. 2 (1905-06) gallica
  • T. 3 (1906-07) gallica
  • T. 4 (1907-08) gallica
  • Supplement (1924) Internet Archive (Book contributor: Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library – University of Toronto, digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto)
    • Supplément t. 1 (1924)
    • Supplement + Index (1923)
• Entry in Wiener China-Bibliographie

For  Cordier’s most important publications: „Principal publication de M. Henri Cordier.“ In: Henri Cordier: Les origines de deux établissements français dans l’extrême-orient (Paris 1896) pp. 71-76.

• Digital version: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK
• See also: W. Perceval Yetts: „Obituary Professor Henri Cordier“. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (1925), 3:855-856.  doi:10.1017/S0041977X00000781
• See also the gallica blog’s focus on „Sinica„, referring not to Chinese titles, but to some highlights on Western books about things Chinese.