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| BERENDSOHN, WALTER A. The Oriental Studies of August Strindberg (1849-1912). Translated from the Swedish by Rudolph Loewenthal Wash DC, Central Asian Collectanea. 1960. Central Asian Collectanea No 5. Originally appeared in Swedish in Samfundet Orebro Stads -och Lansbibliotek Vanner: Meddelande No. XXVII, Orebro, Sweden 1959. [ii], 16pp. 4to/25cm. Printed card wrappers, light soil, internally fine. VG+. Strindberg studied Chinese intensively in the 1870s and wrote several papers. Professor Dr. Walter Arthur Berendsohn (1884- ) wrote a large number of literary and biographical studies in German and Swedish, one of the most popular of which was his 1928 biography of the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof. Scarce. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1720] Book number: 001988 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| PHILIPS, C.H., EDITOR WITH STAFF OF SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Handbook of Oriental History London, Royal Historical Society. 1951. First Edition. viii, 265pp, Preface, Near and Middle East by Bernard Lewis, India and Pakistan by C.H. Philips, South-East Asia and the Archipelago by D.G.E. Hall, China by O.P.N.B. Van der Sprenkel, Japan by W.G. Beasley. Red cloth gilt, light wear, previous owner name on ffep, otherwise internally fine. A library vade mecum for questions of romanization, orthography, calendars and systems of dating, and rulers of the various areas and countries of the Orient. Cyril Henry Philips (1912-2005) was then Professor of Oriental History at SOAS and later became its Director. USD 29.00 [Appr.: EURO 19.25 | £UK 17.5 | JP¥ 2494] Book number: 003930 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER IL MEDIO ED ESTRENI ORIENTE East and West. New Series, Vol. 10, No 4 (December 1959) Rome, Is.M.E.O. 1959. First edition. [ii], pp 243-318. maps, graphs, monochrome illustrations, ads. 4to/30.5cm. Light soil and wear, internally clean, tight and very good. Scholarly journal of Giuseppe Tucci's, Italian Insitute for the study of the Middle and Far East. Issue contains articles on Greek-Aramaic inscriptions in Kandahar, Imperial Rome and the Genesis of classic Indian Art, On the Meeting of Religions in East and West, and on Giuseppe Morichini and Luigi Villari. Also reviews and IsMEO activities. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3010] Book number: 004084 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| BROUGH, J., C.H. PHLIPS AND W. SIMON, EDITORS Studies in Honour of Sir Ralph Turner.... BSOAS, Vol XX 1957 London, School of Oriental & African Studies, Univ of London. 1957. First Edition. xx, 613, [i]pp, frontis portrait, 16 plates, many figures and text illustrations, tribute preface by C. H. Philips, List of Honours and Decorations conferred on Ralph Lilley Turner, Writings of Sir Ralph Turner by D.M. Johnson, List of more than fifty contributors, with titles. Small 4to/24.5cm. Paper, light soil and scuffing head of front panel and spine, one inch closed tear top corner and ffep, 2 small punctures back panel, otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. The fifty-seven scholarly articles/studies are in honor of the twenty years he served as Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies, from 1937 to 1957. The contributors include many of the leading names in Indian and Oriental studies such as F.R. Allchin, L.D. Barnett, A. L. Basham, John Brough, Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Alfred Guillaume, W. B. Henning, Ann K.S. Lambton, D.M. Lang, Bernard Lewis, V. Minorsky, Georg Morgenstierne, D.S. RIce, Walter Simon, A.S. Tritton, J. Ph. Vogal and Arthur Waley. Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, M.C. (1888-1983) entered the Indian Educational Service after World War I, and after military service became a professor of Indian linguistics at Benares Hindu University. He returned to England to resume the Chair of Sanskrit at London University where he became Director of the School of Oriental Studies in 1937. He authored numerous books and articles outstanding among which were his Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (1931) and, A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages. (1966). Scarce. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.25 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 5590] Book number: 003521 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| SCHAFER, EDWARD H., ISIDORE DYER, HELEN FERNALD & HAROLD W. GLIDDEN, COMPILERS Index to Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volumes 21 to 60 New Haven, American Oriental Society. 1955. American Oriental Series, Volume 40. [vii], 173pp, Index of Authors, Index of Subjects, Index of Books Reviewed, Index of Words, Index of Passages, Index of Abstracts and Titles of Papers read at Society Meetings. 4to/28cm. Printed grey card-stock wrappers, discoloration or foxing along front foreedge partly extending onto first leaf and bottom corner of next two leaves also about three inches along top of back panel and a bit onto last leaf; otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 004414 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| STROUT, ELIZABETH. EDITOR Catalogue of the Library of the American Oriental Society New Haven, Yale University Library. 1930. First Edition. v, [ii], 308pp, bibliography, biography of orientalists, periodicals and transactions of learned societies, history of civilization and culture, language and literature. Tall 8vo/25cm. Blue cloth gilt, light edgewear, 4-digit number on ffep, otherwise internally fine. The American Oriental Society, founded in 1842, is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to a particular field of scholarship. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6450] Book number: 004435 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| TOWNSEND, MEREDITH Asia and Europe: Studies Presenting the Conclusions Formed by the Author in a Long Life Devoted to the Subject of the Relations Between Asia and Europe Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co, Ltd. 1901. First Edition. xii, 388 + [xii] publisher's list pp, index. 8vo/23cm. Red cloth gilt, rubbed at head of spine, a few spots, light foxing throughout otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. Some pages unopened. The author's thesis was that Europe could not permanently keep Asian nations in submission. Sir. E. Denison Ross, one of the most prominent British orientalists of the early twentieth century and first Director of the School of Oriental Studies at the University of London, commented in his autobiography, Both Ends of the Candle, that this book was "one of the best books of the day on the East."(p.284). Meredith White Townsend (1831-1911) was the Editor of The Spectator and a prominent liberal critic. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1204] Book number: 002341 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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