VON BERLEPSCH, HERMANN ALEXANDER:

Alperna, deras natur och folk. Stockholm 1871.

. Pp. (iv), 400. With extra illustrated title and 22 fullpage plates by Emil Rittmeyer. Original brown cloth, richly gilt, top of spine slightly chipped, inner lower hinge split. First Swedish edition of this classical work, first published as "Die Alpen in Natur und Lebensbildern" in 1861. A lovely copy. Cf Perret 398.

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Book number: 99995

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, alps, alperna, france, frecnh, italy, italian, schweiz, switzerland, travel, exploration

BERNADOTTE, CARL & EUGEN & OSCAR (Princes of Sweden):

[PACIFIC & MIDDLE EAST] Våra minnen. Stockholm (colophon: Stuttgart) [1886].

. Pp. (iv), 262. With frontispiece (Princes Carl and Eugen in Arab costumes), decorated lithographed title and fifteen full page plates made from photographs protected by tissue guards. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Printed privately as a Christmas gift to the Swedish King and Queen, probably in a small edition. Provenance: A gift from H. Bukowski to Gunnar Hazelius, Swedish historian. A beautiful copy.This work titled "Our memories" contains travel accounts by the Swedish Princes from the Middle East and the Pacific, several written during Vanadis' circumnavigation (1883-5). Includes Prince Oscar's narratives of his visits to Kilauea on Hawaii, Manilla and the Himalayas; Prince Carl's accounts of Jerusalem and several places in India; Prince Eugen's accounts of the Druses and his visit to Damaskus; etc. Forbes 3863; Kroepelien 1318; Rolf Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana, 1318.

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Book number: 100815

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, circumnavigation, travel, exploration, voyage, vanadis, swedish, sweden, india, indian, hawaii, damaskus, damascus, syria, vanadis,

BERTRAND, ALFRED:

Au Pays des Ba-Rotsi Haut Zambèze. Voyage d'exploration en Afrique et retour par les chutes Victoria, le Matébéléland, le Transvaal, Natal, Le Cap. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1898.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. vi, 331 + lvs (2). With engraved front portrait, title printed in red and black, two large folding maps at rear and many textual illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in gilt, beautiful marbled end papers. First edition. A very good copy. Bertrand was a Swiss geographer and photographer who made many ethnographical trips around the world. This account is about a journey to the Barotseland and the Zambezi basin, today located in western Zambia. Bertand's account based on his diary describes the different places he visited, its people, and hunting experiences of buffalo, wildebeest and lion. Includes also the return journey via Victoria Falls, Matabeleland (Zimbabwe), the Transvaal, Natal and the Cape. Czech p.16. Mendelssohn I, pp. 119-20.

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Book number: 121025

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrique, afrika, african, travel, exploration, barotse, marutze, lozi kingdom, zambezi, zambia, hunting, game, lion, buaffalo, southern africa,

BESCHI, CONSTANZO GIUSEPPE:

A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, termed Shen-Tamil: to which is Added an Introduction to Tamil Poetry. Translated from the original Latin, by Benjamin Guy Babington. Madras, The College Press, 1822.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), xii, 117 + 5 content. Wide margins. Contemporary calf, blind-stamped border on the covers, spine gilt with red title label, rubbed, hinges starting. Library markings on front endpapers. (C.M.S.) Some leaves with small marginal wormholes (no text loss). Occasionally some light staining. Rare first printed edition, translated into English from the original Latin completed in manuscript form about 100 years earlier but not printed at that time. Beschi was born in Italy in 1680 but spent most of his life as a Jesuit missionary in India. He was the founder of the Madura mission and became one of the earliest and most distinguished pioneers in the field of Tamil studies. He composed several linguistic works but is probably best known as a Tamil poet. He produced a grammar of Low Tamil (the common dialect) in Latin which was printed at Tranquebar in 1728. The present grammar of Shen-Tamil (the high dialect) was composed the following year, but for an unknown reason was never printed. This English version, from the original Latin, is based on a compilation of texts, transcriptions and more. It remains a pioneering study of an old and complex language by a sensitive and meticulous scholar and a talented translator. The translator Benjamin Guy Babington was an English physician and Oriental scholar who spent about ten years in India. Vater p. 240.

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Book number: 120380

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, tamil,

BIELENSTEIN, AUGUST JOHANN GOTTFRIED:

Lettische grammatik. Mitau 1863.

. Pp. xxii, 432, (1). Modern paper covered boards, title label on spine. Numerous old annotations in pencil throughout the text. Included in "Die lettische Sprache" but complete in itself.

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Book number: 31038

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Keywords: Europe, letland, europe, euopean, language, langue, linguistic,

BIGANDET, PAUL AMBROISE:

The Life, and Legend of Gaudama, the Budha of the Burmese, with annotations. The ways to Neibban, and notice on the phongyies or Burmese Monks. Rangoon, American Mission Press, 1866.

. Pp. xi, (i), 538, v. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine, marbled edges and endpapers, rubbed. Old inscription on front end paper. Second enlarged edition (first 1858). An extensive work on Buddha and his doctrines. Based on the Burmese religious books and Bigandet's frequent conversations about religion amongst scholars. This second edition is greatly expanded with more information about Gautama's life as well as new details on the great intellectual processing of Gautama's mind while meditating under the Bodhi tree. Dedicated to Major A.P. Phayre, British commissioner of Burma 1862-7. Bigandet, a French Catholic missionary who came to Burma in 1837 and stayed there for most of his life. He established schools, orphanages and convents in Burma. Rare. See Herbert: World Biogr. series, vol. 132: Burma, pp. 140-145. Cordier BI 273, 290-91.

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Book number: 121360

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, burma, burmese, birma, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, buddha, religion, buddhist, buddhism, gaundama,

BILDT, DIDRIK CARL:

Japonica. Bilder av japanska föremål och upplysningar därom. Stockholm 1914.

. Small folio. Pp. (ii), x, 502. With coloured frontispiece and 92 plates, of which eleven are coloured. Publisher's cloth decorated in gilt. First edition which was limited to 200 copies, of which this is no.167. Didrik Bildt travelled to Japan in 1902. He brought home a large collection of Japanese works of art including vases, tsuba, paintings, fukusa, kakemono, etc. Each item is well described. Several of the items were presented at the Japanese exhibition in Stockholm in 1911.

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Book number: 99587

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, art, illustration,

BILLINGS, JOSEPH:

Viaggio fatto per ordine dell' imperatrice di Russia Caterina II. nel nord della Russia Asiatica, nel mare Glaciale, nel mare d'Anadyr, e sulla costa Nord-Ouest dell'America, dal 1785 fino al 1794. Two volumes. Milano, Sonzogno e Comp., 1816.

. 12mo. Pp. xxiv, 288; 324. With 8 engraved plates, of which 5 coloured. Contemporary half calf, flat spines ruled and lettered in gilt. Volume two: A small notch to top of spine and hinges cracked. A few leaves with some light waterstain (volume two). Ownership stamp (Pietro Odescalchi). An Italian edition of Joseph Billing's account of the Russian expeditions to the Chukotskiy peninsula, the Aleutian Islands and to the coast of Alaska, translated into Italian by Luigi Bossi. ("Raccolta de' Viaggi", tomi xxi-xxii). Cat. Russica 1307. Howgego B96.

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Book number: 100077

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, russia, ryssland, russian, russe, europe, european, asia, asiatic, america, americana, travel, exploration,

BINDER, HENRY:

Au Kurdistan en Mésopotamie et en Perse (Mission scientifique du Ministère de l'Instruction publique). Paris, Maison Quantin, 1887.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 453. With one large folding coloured map, one front portrait of the author and 200 textual illustrations made from photographs and drawings by the author. As issued, uncut in orginal wrappers, rebacked. Front cover slightly chipped along edges. Binder's successful mission to Kurdistan in 1885 was mainly focused on the geography and archeology in the area. Wilson, p.22.

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Book number: 35137

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, persian, kurdistan, persia, mesopotamia, travel, voyage, exploration, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, east

BIRCHEROD, JOHANNES JACOB:

Arctos Alexandriae, sive de prisco septentrionalium in urbe illa mercatu locus .... productus, & observationibus ebraicis ac historicis illustratus, quem divina annuente gratia. Diss. resp. Petro Severino Winther. Hafniae (Copenhagen), J.P. Bockenhoffer, 1685.

. Small 4to. Pp. (iv), 52. Boards, rubbed. Bibl. Danica ii,557. Ehrencron- M. i, 438.

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Book number: 99619

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, egypt, africa, afrika, afrique, trade, alexandria, hebrew,

BIRD, ISABELLA LUCY (Mrs. Bishop):

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan. Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs. Two volumes. London, John Murray, 1891.

. Pp. xiv, 381; (vi), 409. With two fronts, two folding maps and 34 illustrations, of which eleven full-page. Publisher's blue decorated cloth, stamped in gilt, lightly discoloured. Bookplates. First edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This account covers Bird's two-year journey through little-known parts of Persia and eastern Asia Minor. She joined Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army on a rough journey from Baghdad to Tehran. After visiting the Bakhtiari tribes of south-west Persia, she continued her journey north through Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, to Trebizond (Trabzon) on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. One map depicts her journey and the other the Bakhtiari country. Robinson pp. 81-3.

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Book number: 120587

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, perse, kurdistan, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, armenia, azerbaijan, kurds, kurdistan, lady traveller

BIRD, ISABELLA LUCY (Mrs. Bishop):

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory. Two volumes. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, & London, John Murray, 1900.

. Pp. xii, (ii), 410, (2); viii, (ii), 365, (2). With two frontispieces, one folding coloured map and numerous illustrations throughout the text, many made from the author's photographs. Publisher's decorated gilt cloth, t. e. g., others untrimmed, lightly rubbed at extremities. First American edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), probably the most loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society (1892). This narrative deals with her travels in China in 1897 along the Yangtze River from Shanghai visiting Hangzhou (Zhejiang province), Yichang (Hubei), Wan Hsien (Hebei), Nanjing (Kiangsu), and several places in Sichuan province. Her book is based on her letters and diary notes, and the illustrations are mainly taken from her own photographs. A lovely copy. Cordier BS 355. Robinson pp. 81-83. Yakushi (1984) B170.

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Book number: 120588

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Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, lady traveller

BIRDWOOD, GEORGE:

Indiens konstslöjd. En kortfattad skildring. På svenska utgifven af Hans Hildebrand. Stockholm, Central-Tryckeriet, 1882.

. Pp. (iv), 130. With one double page map and 55 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers, a few stains on upper cover. A Swedish edition partly based on Birdwood's larger work "The Industral Arts of India". This work was first published in German in connection with an Indian exhibition at Berlin in 1881. Afterwards the Indian artefacts were sent to Stockholm where they were exhibited.

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Book number: 99429

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, artefacts,

BîRRI, CRISTOFORO:

An Account of Cochin-China. Two parts in one volume. [London 1744].

. Folio. Pp. 699-743, (1). Old half cloth on marbled paper boards, spine faded. This is an anonymous abridged English translation of B—rri's popular account of Cochin-China, an extract from Churchill's "Collection of Voyages and Travels" (first 1704). Originally published in Italian at Rome in 1631. The account comprises two parts; the first covering the current state of the kingdom including information about the name, climate, natural history, animals, customs and manners, government, wars, and trade and ports. The second part is devoted to the spiritual state dealing with the conversion of Cochin-China's elites, missionary activities and the "spiritual" needs of the people. Cristoforo B—rri, an Italian scientist, spent four years with the Jesuit mission in Cochin-China between 1616 and 1621. Cf Cordier BI 1918-19.

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Book number: 100435

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, cochin-china. cochin-chine, cochinchina, vietnam, vietnamese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

DE LA BISSACHéRE, PIERRE JACQUES LEMONNIER:

Etat actuel du Tunkin, de la Cochinchine, et des royaumes de Camboge, Laos et Lac-Tho. Three parts in one volume. Paris, de Galignani, 1812.

. Pp. (iv), ii, 325; (iv), 342. Includes the two half titles but maybe one leaf (blank or errata?) missing at end. Later full calf, flat spine decorated in gilt and with red title label. Marbled edges and end papers. Second edition of a missionary work which to a large extent based on Antoine du Montyon's work published in 1811 under the title "Exposé statistique du Tunkin, de la Cochinchine, ... sur la relation de M. La Bissachère". La Bissachère (1764-1830) was a French missionary who arrived in Tonkin in 1790 where he remained for 17 years. He was very successful in his missionary work and converted many inhabitants. He travelled extensively in the area. This work contains accurate and interesting information about the countries dealing with geography, geology, zoology, commerce, navigation, commerce, politics, military forces, religion, customs and manners, etc. Cordier BI 998.

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Book number: 100765

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, vitenam, tonkin, tunkin, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, laos, cochinchina, cochinchine, cambodia, travel, exploration,