CLARKSON, WILLIAM:

A Grammar of the Gujarâti language. Bombay, American Mission Press, T. Graham, 1847.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), ii, 175. With two tables (one folding). Later green cloth, red title-label on spine. The Gujarâti language belongs to the Indo-Arayan family and derived from Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsa. It contains two alphabets; the Bâlbodh or Shastri (used for educational purposes) and the Gujarâti (for correspondence and mercantile transactions). William Clarkson was an English protestant missionary who for some years lived in Gujarât. The new types of Gujarâti letters here used were created and produced by the Mission Press at the time. Scarce.

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Book number: 28054

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, gujarati, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, gujarat, travel, exploration, Anet

CLENARDUS, NICOLAS:

Institutiones linguae graecae. Cum scholiis & praxii P. Antesignani. Coloniae, Theodoricus Baumius, 1571.

. Pp. (xvi), 509, (27). Fifth edition (first 1530). Lower part of title page restored without any loss. Old signature. Adams C2148. Jöcher i,438. BOUND WITH: Meditationes graecanicae un artem grammaticam. Coloniae, Theodorus Graminaeus, 1570. Pp. (iv), 331, (145). Third edition. (first 1531). Adams C 2158. AND: [Hebrew title] Tabulae in grammaticam Hebraeam. Coloniae, Arnold Birckmann, 1567. Pp. 84, (8). Fourth edition (first 1529). Graesse ii, 200. Jöcher ii, 1992. Bound in contemporary blindpressed vellum, spine with four raised bands, small damage to lower part of spine, worn, hinges cracked and clasps missing. The covers are decorated with floral design and images of different saints. Clenardus (1495-1542) was born at Diest in Brabant and became a teacher in Greek and Hebrew in Spain and Portugal. Clenardus' success was largely due to his methodical presentation of the contents and clear formulations of the grammatical rules. Both his Hebrew and Greek grammars became standards and were still used in the 18th century. Index Aurel 141.438; 141.434; 141.418.

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Book number: 31020

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, greece, greek, language, langue, linguistic,

CLENARDUS, NICOLAUS:

Lûah had-diqdûq. Tabula in grammaticen hebraem ... Accessere Iohannis Isaac et G. Genebrardi ad absolutiorem institutionem scholia. Paris, Martin Juvenem (Le Jeune), 1564.

. Pp. 231. Contemporary limp vellum. Small wormhole running through margin of first two leaves. This Hebrew grammar was first published in 1529 and reissued many times. Scarce, interesting edition with comments by Quinquarboreus (or Cinquarbres), notes by Isaac and Gilbert Génébrard and amendments by J. Mercerio (Jan Mercer). Clenardus was a Flemish Christian humanist, grammarian, orientalist and professor of Latin at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Clenardus' success was largely due to his methodical presentation of the contents and clear formulations of the grammatical rules. Both his Hebrew and Greek grammars became standards for several centuries. Cf Smitskamp PO 10. Bakelants 18. Index Aurel 141397.

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Book number: 99303

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, hebrew, holy land, language, langue, asia, asie, asien, asiatic

YOKOHAMA AMATEUR ROWING CLUB.

Aquatic Sports, Saturday 25th Aug., 1900. At 3 p.m. Yokohama, Japan Gazette Office, 1900.

. One folded leaf. Text printed in blue on pink paper. A programme with various tournaments and races.

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Book number: 120503

Catalogue: East Asia

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YOKOHAMA YACHT CLUB.

Programme of Sailing Races, on the American National Holiday. Wednesday, July 4th, 1900. Yokohama, Japan Gazette Office, 1900.

. One folded leaf. Text printed in red and blue on light blue paper. Some staining.

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Book number: 120489

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, sport, yokohama, sailing, rowing,

COBBOLD, REV. ROBERT HENRY:

Pictures of the Chinese. Drawn by Themselves. London, John Murray, 1860.

. Pp. vi, 219. With frontispiece, 34 full page drawing illustrations and many textual illustrations. Near contemporary half calf on marbled boards, somewhat rubbed. Old ownership signature on title page. Some minor staining. First edition of a charming work about various Chinese professions each accompanied by a pen-and-ink etching by a native artist. Some examples: the lantern-seller, the blind fortune-teller, the opium smoker, the physiognomy, the scavenger, street beggars, etc. The author served as Archdeacon at the treaty port of Ningpo for a period of eight years. Cordier BS 90.

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Book number: 17092

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, china, kina, chine, drawings, etchings

COCHRANE, JOHN DUNDAS:

Fussreise durch Russland und die sibirische Tartarei, und von der chinesischen Gränze nach dem Eismeer und Kamtschatka. Weimar 1825.

. Pp. iv, 496, (2). Without endpapers. Foxed throughout. Contemporary half calf, very worn, remains of old title label. A German translation of "Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary..." (London 1824). Captain John Dundas Cochrane was a nephew of the famous Lord Cochrane, and after the peace, being turned down for further naval service, set out on foot to tour the world. The Russian Government gave him travelling facilities and he travelled, mainly by foot, across Siberia to Kamsckatka. This account contains observations from the expeditions of Otto von Kotebue, Vasilieff and Baron Ferdinand Vrangel. Includes descriptions of the native people, their social and economic conditions. Cf Artic Bibl. 350. Cf Howes C528.

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Book number: 14374

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, india, central asia, east india, south asia, indien, travels, explore, exploring, voyage, russia, siberia, tartary, kamchatka, Kamtschatka, china, asia, asie, asien

[PéRE CASTOR]. COEUR, FERDINAND:

Quinze Jeux sur Table. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1936.

. 4to (24 x 28 cm). Pp. 16 and six coloured card board sheets (two with the cut-out parts missing). The text describes different kinds of card games. Publisher's pictorial coloured wrappers. First edition.

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Book number: 120864

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, france, french, frankrike, spel, barn, children, jeux, illustrated,

COLERIDGE, HENRY NELSON:

Sex månader i Westindien, år 1825. Linköping, Axel Petre, 1835.

. Pp. (viii), 214, (1). Remains of original blue wrapper on inner margin of title. Printed ownership name on title. Contemporary or somewhat later half calf, spine richly gilt, slightly rubbed. Scarce Swedish edition. In 1825 Henry Nelson Coleridge accompanied his uncle, William Hart Coleridge (the bishop of Barbados) to the West Indies. In addition to Barbados they visited Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Martinique, St. Christopher, Antigua, etc. His vivid account was published anonymously the following year. Includes a description of the Madeira Islands from where the journey started. The translation into Swedish was made by C.A. Carlsson, vicar of the Swedish parish in St Barthélemy between 1830 and 1833. He has added many interesting comments to the text. Cf Sabin 14318.

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Book number: 99495

Catalogue: Americas

Keywords: Americas, america, americas, americana, travels, exploring, voyage, west indies, south america, amerika, virgin islands

COLLINDER, B.:

Reichsturkische lautstudien. Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1939.

. Large 8vo. 104 pp. Sewn as issued, uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrs. (Uppsala Universitets Årsskrift 1939:1).

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Book number: 14232

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, near east, middle east, arabic, arabes, turkey, arabia, islam, türkei, naher osten

COLLIS, MAURICE:

The Journey Outward. An Autobiography. London, Faber & Faber, 1952.

. Pp. (viii), 299. With front portrait and two sketch maps. Publisher's cloth, in the rare dust jacket, with small losses at outer edges. First edition of the first part of Collis' autobiography covering the years up to 1918. Collis entered the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and was posted to Burma as a civil servant in 1912.TOGETHER WITH: Courts of the Shan Princes. London (1939). Pp. 13. With eight illustrations and a map. Some staining. Original printed wrappers, worn. A lecture given at the China Society on January 16, 1939.

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Book number: 120752

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, burma, birma, burmese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, autobiography, biography

SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY

SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY. KONGL. MAJ:TS NAADIGA KUNGOERELSE, angaaende Ost-Indiska Compagniets uploesning, och handelns på Ost-Indien oepnande foer en hwar, som deruti wil deltaga; gifwen Stockholms Slott den 6 julii 1814. Sthlm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1814.

. 4to. 4pp. Unbound, entirely uncut.

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Book number: 12190

Catalogue: East Asia

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SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY

SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY. KONGL. MAJ:TS OEPNE NAADIGA PRIVILEGIUM, til befraemjande af Swenska handelsfarten på Ost-Indien; gifwit hoegqwarteret Ratzeburg den 3 martii 1806. Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1806.

. 4to. Pp. 16. Unbound, entirely uncut.

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Book number: 12191

Catalogue: East Asia

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CONDE, JOSÉ ANTONIO / LACROIX DE MARLES, JEAN (Editor & Transl.):

Histoire de la domination des Arabes et des Maures en Espagne et en Portugal, depuis l'invasion de ces peuples jusqu' a leur expulsion définitive; rédigée sur l'histoire traduite de l'arabe en espagnol. Three volumes. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1825.

. Pp. (iv), 504; (iv), 470; (iv), 412, xxxviii, vi. Uncut copy in original decorated boards, with some wear to spine ends. Housed in a special made cloth box. Partly with some light staining. First French edition of Conde's history of the Arab rule in Spain. José Antonio Conde (1766-1820) was educated at the university of Alcalâ and became a member of the Spanish Academy in 1802. This his most important work presents for the first time a complete version of the history of Islamic Spain covering the period from the Arab invasion of Spain in 711 to the expulsion of the latter in 1492. It was posthumously published at Madrid during the years 1820-21. Unusual to find in the original boards. James Monroe: "Islam and the Arabs in Spanish scholarship", pp. 50-52. Palau 59020.

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Book number: 99897

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabia, arabe, arabian,

[UGGLA, ALLAN] - O'CONNOR, FREDERICK:

On the Frontier and Beyond: A Record of Thirty Years' Service. [Together with hand written letters to and from Allan Uggla]. London, John Murray, 1931.

. Pp. xii, 355, (3). With one map and 22 illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth. Copy of Allan Uggla with his signature and bookplate (Ida and Allan Uggla). With some annotations in pencil by Allan Uggla. First edition. O'Connor spent thirty years in the service under the Government of India. After a few years in India he served in Tibet (was the first military attaché to Lhasa), and later on in Persia and Nepal. Enclosed to this work: 1. Letter to Allan Uggla from Sven Hedin dated 1922; 2. Letter from Ida to Allan Uggla dated Karakorum 1914; 3. The newspaper "Fars" in Persian dated 1914 with a poem by al-Molk (about the Swedes and Allan Uggla); 4. Postcard adressed to A. Uggla in Shiraz; 5. Letter in French to Ida Uggla (appeal for help of a person being in prison); 6. Thank you letter from Alf Åberg to Claes Uggla. Captain Allan Uggla was in charge of the Swedish gendarmerie in Persia. According to O'Connor: "Captain Uggla, who took over the command during the summer in 1913 made an admirable Commandant - tactful, suave, a good linguist, and a good organiser. He was the man for this difficult post." (pp. 200-01).

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Book number: 44005

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, india, persia, nepal, tibet, indian, asia, asie asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, explore, voyage, himalaya