BAINES, THOMAS:

The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa. London & Cape Colony, 1877.

. Pp. xxiv, 240 including 50 pages of advertisement. With four photo-type plates, one facsimile letter, woodcut illustrations and one large folding map (of the gold fields and the Cape Colony) in a pocket at rear. Original pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and black, rubbed, some damp staining to the covers but internally fine. First edition, posthumously published. Important work of the gold discoveries in Matabeleland and Mashionaland (Zimbabwe). Baines led an expedition in the 1860s to secure licences for a gold-mining company from King Lobengula. At end a chapter where the author describes nineteen routes to the gold regions of South-Eastern Africa. Czech p. 13. Mendelssohn I, pp.71-2.

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Book number: 120996

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, travel, exploration, gold, zimbabwe, south africa, southern africa, hunting, game,

BAKER, SAMUEL W. BAKER:

The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and the Explorations of the Nile Sources. Two volumes. London Macmillian and Co., 1867.

. Pp. xxx, 371; x, (2), 372. Half title to first volume missing. With two frontispieces (one tinted), two maps (one large folding), thirteen full-page plates and many textual illustrations. Old ownership's signature on title page (first volume). Original decorated cloth decorated in gilt, some minor wear. Bookplates. Volume one loose in binding. Occasionally some minor spotting. Second edition (first 1866) of this famous account about the source of the Nile, reprinted many times. Samuel White Baker was an English naturalist, big game hunter and explorer. He was the first Englishman to undertake high office under the Egyptian government. Baker discovered the lake Albert N'Yanza and the source of the White Nile. Includes much on elephant and buffalo hunting. Czech 15. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 49. 

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Book number: 121019

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, exploration, egypt, egyptian, sudan, Nile, hunting, game, games, elephant, uganda, south sudan,

BAKER, SAMUEL W.:

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1875.

. Pp. 542. With two maps (one folding), engraved front portrait and 50 woodcut plates, all protected with tissue guards. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt, with gilt vignette of a camel caravan on the upper cover, spine faded. First American edition (first London 1874). This classic work by a celebrated African explorer is about an expedition in 1869, headed by Baker, with the aim to suppress the slave-trade in Central Africa. Baker was the first Englishman to undertake high office under the Egyptian government. A very good copy. Cf Blackmer 66.

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Book number: 100454

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, exploration, slavery,

BAKER, FLORENCE BARBARA MARIA / BAKER, ANNE:

Morning Star. Florence Baker's Diary of the Expedition to put Down the Slave Trade on the Nile 1870-73. London, William Kimber, 1972.

. Pp. 240. With one map and 17 halftones. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Florence Baker was married to Samuel Baker, one of Britain's foremost African explorers. Florence, an Hungarian with a childhood wrapped in mystery, first met Samuel when he was on a hunting trip in Hungary with the Makarajah Duleep Singh in 1858-59. This account, for the first time ever published, describes an expedition into the region of the Upper Nile in 1870. Robinson p.3.

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Book number: 34007

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, egypt, nile, afrique, afrika, travel, voyages, exploration, egyptian, afrika, afrircana

BAKER, REV. THOMAS TURNER:

The Recent Operations of the British Forces at Rangoon and Martaban. London, Thomas Hatchard, 1852.

. Pp. (viii), 78. With one coloured frontispiece, one plate of a Burmese ship and two folding plates depicting a costal view of Rangoon and the attack on the Dunnoo Stockade. Unopened copy in original cloth, rebacked with most of the original spine preserved, rubbed. First edition of an eye-witness account of the Second Anglo-Burmese War (April 1852 - January 1853), posthumously published. No treaty was signed but trade resumed between British Burma and the Kingdom of Ava until there was an outbreak of new violence in 1885. Reverend Thomas Baker was Chaplain of Her Majesty's ship Fox. Abbey Travel 407. Cordier BI 455.

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Book number: 99747

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, burma, burmese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, military,

BALçZS, BÉLA / KOZMA, LAJOS (Ill.):

Testvérorszâg. A j— gyerekeknek mesélte karâcsonyra (Sister country. Told for the good children). Gyoma, Kner Izidor, 1918.

. 16mo. Size: 10 x 13.5 cm. Pp. 59. With six full-page coloured plates. Publisher's pictorial boards, cloth spine, rubbed. Some leaves with small corner loss. First edition of this unusual Hungarian children's book illustrated by Lajos Kozma in a characteristic Art Nouveau style. The book was issued by Kner Publishing House as one of a series of three children's books, of which another one is Anna Lezsnai's "Mese a bœtorok—l".Béla Balâzs was a Hungarian - Jewish film critic, writer and poet. He was the writer of the scenario for Bart—k's ballet "The Wooden Prince". Lajos Kozma was one of the foremost Hungarian architects and interior designers of the early 20th century. He joined "The Young Ones" a group of architects influenced by the "Vienna Secession". His early works were created in Art Nouveau style but later, through Art Deco, he found his way to the International Modernism.

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Book number: 120337

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, children, literature, art nouveau, juvenile, barnbok, hungry, hungrian, ungern

BALLANTYNE, JAMES ROBERT:

Elements of Hindi and Braj Bhakha Grammar. Compiled for the use of the East-India College at Haileybury. London, J. L. Cox and Sons, 1839.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 38, (1) and one engraved plate. Original cloth, spine chipped, front hinge split, printed title label on upper cover. Label (Benjamin Duprat) on front paste down. First edition of a rare work. Braj Bhakh (or Braj Bhasha) language is a Western Hindi language. It was one of the two predominant literary languages of North-Central India before the switch to literary Hindustani in the 19th century. A great deal of the Hindi literature was developed in the Braj in the medieval period, and much devotional poetry is in this language. Ballantyne, Scottish-born orientalist who was superintendent of the Sanskrit College in Benares (Varanasi) 1845-61. He published several grammars of different Indian languages. Vater p. 165.

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Book number: 121136

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, language, langue, lingustic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, braj, braji, hindi,

BALLER, FREDRICK WILLIAM:

An Analytical Vocabulary of the New Testament. Prepared for the use of junior members of the China Inland Mission. Shanghai, China Inland Mission and American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1893.

. 4to. Pp. vi, 264. Errata slip pasted in. Original boards, covered with worn blue cloth, faded. Old ownership signatures of two Swedish missionaries (Fredrika Hallin and Martin Lindén). First edition. The vocabulary is provided both for missionaries who use the Wenli New Testament and for those who use Mandarin only. Included at end: index of characters; index of names and places, the radicals and finally brief notes on some common characters and idioms. Baller (1852-1922) was a British missionary and linguist who spent almost thirty years in China. Cordier BS 1621.

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Book number: 121321

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, linguistic, langue, vocabulary, religious, missionary, mandarin

BALLER, FEDERICK WILLIAM:

Mandarin Primer. Character Analysis. Shanghai, China Inland Mission and Presbyterian Press, 1916.

. 24mo. Pp. (ii), 26. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on front cover. Ownership inscription: "Martin Lindén, Swedish Mission in China". A mint copy. Baller (1852-1922) was a British missionary and linguist who spent almost thirty years in China.

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Book number: 121320

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, linguistic, langue, mandarin,

BALLER, FREDERICK WLLIAM:

A Vocabulary of the Colloquial Rendering of the Sacred Edict. Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1892.

. Pp. xiv, 217 + errata slip. Contemporary half calf, rubbed. Ownership signature in ink on front endpaper. First edition. Baller (1852-1922) was a British missionary who lived in China most of his life where he worked for the China Inland Mission. This vocabulary belongs to Baller's translation of the Sacred Edict. Cordier BS 1428.

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Book number: 37052

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, language, lingustic, langue, far east, east,

[SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE] / BALLY, CHARLES & SÉCHEHAYE, ALBERT (Editors):

Course de linguistique générale. Lausanne & Paris, Librairie Payot & Cie, 1916.

. Pp. 336, (1). Original printed wrappers. With some browning a/o spotting. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), a Swiss linguist whose ideas on structure in language laid the foundation for much of the approach to and progress of the linguistic sciences in the 20th century. This work comprise a reconstruction of his lecture notes and some other materials by two of his students. Saussure became enormously influential as a teacher, first at the École des Hautes Études in Paris (1881-1891) and later on as professor of lingustics at the University of Geneva (1907-13). He claimed that language must be considered as a social phenomenon, a structured system which can be viewed synchronically (as it exists at any particular time) and diachronically (as it changes in the course of time). Hereby he formalized the basic approaches to language study and declared that the principles and methodology of each approach are distinct and mutually exclusive.

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Book number: 38059

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, language, linguistic, langue, sprachwissenschaft

BAMBRIDGE, WILLIAM & MAUNSELL, ROBERT (Transl.):

[MÌORI IMPRINT]. He whakapapa ara. Nga mahi menga aha noa a te atua raua ko tana hahi. (It's a genealogy. The works and dealings of God and his Church). Part one (of two). Auckland, Printed by J. Williamson for the Church Mission, 1847.

. 12mo. Pp. 45. Blue paper wrappers, chipped. Bookplate. Rare, first edition of a M‹ori translation of Friedrich Strass's "Der Strom der Zeiten" (1803) which depicts human history from the year of creation around 4000 BCE to "present day". This part covers the Old Testament and up to Solomon. One more part was issued in 1849 continuing up to the life of Christ. It's based on an English summary made by Bambridge for Bishop Selwyn. Bambridge was a schoolmaster and photographer who served at Waimate Te mission in the 1840s. The M‹ori translation is done by Robert Maunsell, a leading scholar of the M‹ori language and culture. Hocken, Bibliography of the literature relating to New Zealand, p. 521. Williams, Bibliography of printed Maori, 155.

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Book number: 121333

Catalogue: Oceania incl. Pacific

Keywords: Oceania incl. Pacific, new zealand, amori, religious, bible, language, langue, linguistic,

BARRéRE, ALBERT & LELAND, CHARLES G.:

A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant. Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinkers' jargon and other irregular phraseology. No place (Edinburgh), Printed for subscribers only at the Ballantyne Press, 1889-90.

. Small 4to. Pp. xxiv, 528; (iv), 428. With titles printed in red and black. Uncut copy in original wrappers over boards. Wrappers somewhat worn and stained. Spine of volume one faded and with title in manuscript. A charming copy of this limited subscriber's edition of 675 copies, of which this is no. 352. The first public edition was published at London in 1897. A very thorough study of the different varieties of English slang. Black, Gypsy Bibl. 198. Zaunmüller 108.

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Book number: 31001

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, english slang, english, slang, language, langue, lingustic, gypsy, romany

BARTH, CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB:

Biblias Sádsi. Dr. Barth's Bible Stories. Translated into the Akra-Language. Württemberg, Printed for the German & Foreign School-Book-Society at Calw, by J.F. Steinkopf, 1854.

. 12mo. Pp. vi, 197. With numerous illustrations. Original red cloth, elaborated gilt design on covers. First edition, translated from the German by Johann Zimmermann, a second was published at Stuttgart in 1858. The Akra or the GS language is spoken by the people inhabiting the Gold-coast of Western Africa. Barth was a German pastor and missionary who published this series of "Bible Stories" (1845) which was translated into many different languages.

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Book number: 100463

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, afirka, africa, african, afrique, ghana, akra, language, langue, linguisitc, religion, exploration, travel, GS language

BARTHÉLEMY-HADOT, MARIE ADELAIDE:

Les héritiers des Ducs de Bouillon ou les francais à Alger. Four volumes. Paris 1816.

. Small 8vo.Pp. (iv), 245; (iv), 260; (iv), 264; (iv), 286. Contemporary boards, flat calf spines, richly decorated and lettered in gilt. Binding slightly rubbed and some minor staining. Gay 793. Vicaire, Superchériés i, 385.

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Book number: 99140

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, alger, africa, africana, afrique, afrika, travel, exploration, literature,