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	BURMANN, JOHANNES: Thesaurus Zeylanicus, exhibens plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes; inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia iconibus illustrata, ac descripta cura & studio. Two parts in one volume. Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergios & Salomonem Schouten, 1737. 4to. Pp. (xvi), 235, (15) + appendix (2), 34. With one engraved portrait frontispiece, by Houbraken after Quinckhard, and 111 engraved plates of plants. Title-page printed in red and black and with engraved vignette. Old annotations on title-page. Nicely rebound (by Bernard Middleton) in modern vellum, spine lettered in gilt. First edition of the first illustrated flora of Ceylon. The work was published shortly before Burman was appointed professor of botany at Amsterdam. Carl von Linné, a friend of Burman, assisted in the preparation of the work and later on published his own "Flora Zeylanica" (1747). The appendix contains a catalogue of African plants. A beautiful copy. Hunt 501. Nissen-B. 303. Stafleu 184. € (euro) 3800.00 [Appr.: US$ 5692.4 \| £UK 3424 \| JP¥ 502816] Book number: 20071 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BURSLEM, CAPTAIN ROLLO GILLISPIE: A Peep into Toorkisthan. London, Pelham Richardson, 1846. Pp. 238, (2). With folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, three more lithographs and one linen backed folding map. Occasionally some minor staining. Original blindstamped green cloth, recased, somewhat rubbed. Presentation copy by the author's brother. First edition. "The author, an English officer based at Kabul, obtained leave to accompany his friend, Lieutnant Sturt, on a mission to survey and map the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush in the summer of 1840. An account of their travels and adventures" (Ghani). Ghani p. 61. Yakushi B644. € (euro) 1950.00 [Appr.: US$ 2921.1 \| £UK 1757 \| JP¥ 258024] Book number: 39011 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	CHATER, JAMES: A Grammar of the Cingalese Language. Colombo, printed at the Government Press by Nicholas Bergman, 1815. Pp. (x), 141. Printed on good quality paper, with wide margins. Uncut, unopened copy in original boards, spine detached. Housed in special made cloth box by Bernard Middleton. Copy of John Lawson. First edition of the first grammar of the Cingalese language to have been compiled by an Englishman and printed in the island. The British took over the rule of Ceylon from the Dutch in 1796. A few years later the government set up a printing press. The earliest known publications printed by the British are printed at Colombo in 1813. Nicholas Bergman became the Head Printer of the Government Press in 1815 and remained in this post until at least 1930. See Rhodes: "The Spread of Printing. Eastern Hemisphere, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand", Amsterdam 1969, pp. 73-74. € (euro) 2000.00 [Appr.: US$ 2996 \| £UK 1802.25 \| JP¥ 264640] Book number: 99742 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GORDON CUMMING, CONSTANCE FREDEREKA: Two Happy Years in Ceylon. Two volumes. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Pp. x, 438; (viii), 442. With one folding map and 19 plates illustrated by the author. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, lightly rubbed. First US edition published the same year as the first UK edition. Fredereka or 'Eka' Gordon Cumming was the 12th child of a wealthy Scottish family. She travelled most of her life, became a "globe-trotter", and wrote many books and articles. 'Eka' was a talented artist and over the years amassed a collection of a thousand paintings from different parts of the world. Robinson p. 94. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 749 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 99505 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	PLOWDEN, TREVOR CHICHELE: Translation of the Kal’d-i-Afghân’ the Text Book for the Pakkhto Examination, with Notes, Historical, Geographical, Grammatical, and Explanatory. Lahore, Printed at the Central Jail Press, 1875. Pp. (iv), xx, 102, (ii), iv, 103-166, (iv), 167-208, , (vi), iv, (vi), 209-260, (iv), 261-298, (iv), 299-336, (iv), 337-395, ix. With one folding coloured map in pocket at rear. Contemporary morocco binding, with decorated gilt borders on covers, gilt inner floral dentelles, gilt gauffred edges, extremities rubbed, hinges weak. Presentation copy from the author, dated Abottabad October 1875. With small library stamp in a few places. First edition. An English translation of a selection of famous Pashto or Afghani poetry and prose. This work was used as the Government text book for the Pashto examination. € (euro) 800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1198.4 \| £UK 721 \| JP¥ 105856] Book number: 99844 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	TENNENT, SIR JAMES EMERSON: Ceylon an account of the island physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Two volumes. London 1859. Pp. xxxvi, 620; xvi, 660. With 2 frontispieces, 4 maps (of which 2 folding) and many more textual illustrations. Uncut copy in original pictorial cloth, gilt, somewhat shaken, spines faded. Bookplate. Second edition of this comprehensive account on Ceylon which became a standard work. Includes a section on the elephant. € (euro) 550.00 [Appr.: US$ 823.9 \| £UK 495.75 \| JP¥ 72776] Book number: 27013 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	VIGNE, GODFREY THOMAS: A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan, and of a Residence at the Court of Dost Mohamed: with Notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian Expedition. London, Geeorge Routledge, 1843. Pp. xvi, 479. With hand coloured frontispiece, one folding map, 6 tinted lithographed plates and many illustrations in the text. Original embossed cloth, rubbed. Second edition, first was published in 1840. In 1836 the author set out from India and crossed into Afghanistan, south of the Khyber Pass, and made his way to Ghunzi and thence to Kabul before returning to Peshawar. He describes in detail the places he visited, the inhabitants and their customs. Includes interviews with the amir Doost Mohammed and the Sikh ruler Runjit Singh. Abbey, Travel, 505. Ghani 384. Yakushi (1984) V39. € (euro) 1800.00 [Appr.: US$ 2696.4 \| £UK 1622 \| JP¥ 238176] Book number: 40023 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.

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	BURMANN, JOHANNES: Thesaurus Zeylanicus, exhibens plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes; inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia iconibus illustrata, ac descripta cura & studio. Two parts in one volume. Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergios & Salomonem Schouten, 1737. 4to. Pp. (xvi), 235, (15) + appendix (2), 34. With one engraved portrait frontispiece, by Houbraken after Quinckhard, and 111 engraved plates of plants. Title-page printed in red and black and with engraved vignette. Old annotations on title-page. Nicely rebound (by Bernard Middleton) in modern vellum, spine lettered in gilt. First edition of the first illustrated flora of Ceylon. The work was published shortly before Burman was appointed professor of botany at Amsterdam. Carl von Linné, a friend of Burman, assisted in the preparation of the work and later on published his own "Flora Zeylanica" (1747). The appendix contains a catalogue of African plants. A beautiful copy. Hunt 501. Nissen-B. 303. Stafleu 184. € (euro) 3800.00 [Appr.: US$ 5692.4 \| £UK 3424 \| JP¥ 502816] Book number: 20071 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BURSLEM, CAPTAIN ROLLO GILLISPIE: A Peep into Toorkisthan. London, Pelham Richardson, 1846. Pp. 238, (2). With folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, three more lithographs and one linen backed folding map. Occasionally some minor staining. Original blindstamped green cloth, recased, somewhat rubbed. Presentation copy by the author's brother. First edition. "The author, an English officer based at Kabul, obtained leave to accompany his friend, Lieutnant Sturt, on a mission to survey and map the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush in the summer of 1840. An account of their travels and adventures" (Ghani). Ghani p. 61. Yakushi B644. € (euro) 1950.00 [Appr.: US$ 2921.1 \| £UK 1757 \| JP¥ 258024] Book number: 39011 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	CHATER, JAMES: A Grammar of the Cingalese Language. Colombo, printed at the Government Press by Nicholas Bergman, 1815. Pp. (x), 141. Printed on good quality paper, with wide margins. Uncut, unopened copy in original boards, spine detached. Housed in special made cloth box by Bernard Middleton. Copy of John Lawson. First edition of the first grammar of the Cingalese language to have been compiled by an Englishman and printed in the island. The British took over the rule of Ceylon from the Dutch in 1796. A few years later the government set up a printing press. The earliest known publications printed by the British are printed at Colombo in 1813. Nicholas Bergman became the Head Printer of the Government Press in 1815 and remained in this post until at least 1930. See Rhodes: "The Spread of Printing. Eastern Hemisphere, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand", Amsterdam 1969, pp. 73-74. € (euro) 2000.00 [Appr.: US$ 2996 \| £UK 1802.25 \| JP¥ 264640] Book number: 99742 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	GORDON CUMMING, CONSTANCE FREDEREKA: Two Happy Years in Ceylon. Two volumes. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Pp. x, 438; (viii), 442. With one folding map and 19 plates illustrated by the author. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, lightly rubbed. First US edition published the same year as the first UK edition. Fredereka or 'Eka' Gordon Cumming was the 12th child of a wealthy Scottish family. She travelled most of her life, became a "globe-trotter", and wrote many books and articles. 'Eka' was a talented artist and over the years amassed a collection of a thousand paintings from different parts of the world. Robinson p. 94. € (euro) 500.00 [Appr.: US$ 749 \| £UK 450.75 \| JP¥ 66160] Book number: 99505 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	PLOWDEN, TREVOR CHICHELE: Translation of the Kal’d-i-Afghân’ the Text Book for the Pakkhto Examination, with Notes, Historical, Geographical, Grammatical, and Explanatory. Lahore, Printed at the Central Jail Press, 1875. Pp. (iv), xx, 102, (ii), iv, 103-166, (iv), 167-208, , (vi), iv, (vi), 209-260, (iv), 261-298, (iv), 299-336, (iv), 337-395, ix. With one folding coloured map in pocket at rear. Contemporary morocco binding, with decorated gilt borders on covers, gilt inner floral dentelles, gilt gauffred edges, extremities rubbed, hinges weak. Presentation copy from the author, dated Abottabad October 1875. With small library stamp in a few places. First edition. An English translation of a selection of famous Pashto or Afghani poetry and prose. This work was used as the Government text book for the Pashto examination. € (euro) 800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1198.4 \| £UK 721 \| JP¥ 105856] Book number: 99844 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	TENNENT, SIR JAMES EMERSON: Ceylon an account of the island physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions. Two volumes. London 1859. Pp. xxxvi, 620; xvi, 660. With 2 frontispieces, 4 maps (of which 2 folding) and many more textual illustrations. Uncut copy in original pictorial cloth, gilt, somewhat shaken, spines faded. Bookplate. Second edition of this comprehensive account on Ceylon which became a standard work. Includes a section on the elephant. € (euro) 550.00 [Appr.: US$ 823.9 \| £UK 495.75 \| JP¥ 72776] Book number: 27013 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	VIGNE, GODFREY THOMAS: A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan, and of a Residence at the Court of Dost Mohamed: with Notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian Expedition. London, Geeorge Routledge, 1843. Pp. xvi, 479. With hand coloured frontispiece, one folding map, 6 tinted lithographed plates and many illustrations in the text. Original embossed cloth, rubbed. Second edition, first was published in 1840. In 1836 the author set out from India and crossed into Afghanistan, south of the Khyber Pass, and made his way to Ghunzi and thence to Kabul before returning to Peshawar. He describes in detail the places he visited, the inhabitants and their customs. Includes interviews with the amir Doost Mohammed and the Sikh ruler Runjit Singh. Abbey, Travel, 505. Ghani 384. Yakushi (1984) V39. € (euro) 1800.00 [Appr.: US$ 2696.4 \| £UK 1622 \| JP¥ 238176] Book number: 40023 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.