LA BISSACHéRE, PIERRRE JACQUES LEMONNIER DE [ & MONTYON, ANTOINE DE]:

Gegenwärtiger Zustand von Tunkin, Cochinchina u. der Königreiche Camboja, Laos und Lac-tho. Weimar 1813.

. Pp. xii, 446. Half calf, rubbed and upper paper cover with some stain. A German edition translated from the French "Etat actuel du Tunkin, de la Cochinchine, et des Royaume de Camboge, Laos et Lac-tho" Paris 1812. This narrative is mainly based on De Montyon's work, which was originally published under a different title in 1811. La Bissachère (1764-1830), a French missionary who came to Tonkin in 1790 and stayed there for 17 years. Cordier BI 998.

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Book number: 22026

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, vietnam, cochinchina, cambodia, laos, vietnamese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

DE LA BISSACHéRE, PIERRE JACQUES LEMONNIER:

La relation sur le Tonkin et la Cochinchine. Publiée d'après le manuscrit des Archives des affaires étrangères avec une introduction et des notes par Charles B. - Maybon. Paris, E. Champion, 1919.

. Pp. 187. As issued in original printed wrappers, worn and stained. Internally some minor staining. La Bissachère was a French missionary who resided in Tonkin for 17 years. This work compiled by Charles Maybon is based on La Bissachère's original notes.

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Book number: 20027

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, vietnam, tonkin, cochinchine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, indochine, indochina,

BIXBY, OLIVE JENNIE:

My Child-Life in Burmah; or, Recollections and Incidents. Boston 1880.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 172. With frontispiece and 11 plates. Original pictorial cloth lettered in gilt, extremities rubbed, spine faded. First and only edition of this early missionary account of life in Burma. The author was born on board a ship heading for Burma in 1856. Cordier BI 6.

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Book number: 99442

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

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

BIZZARRI, PIETRO:

Rerum persicarum historia, initia gentis, mores, instituta, resquegestas ad haec usque tempora complectens. Francofurti, typis Wechelianis apud Caludium Marnium & heredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1601.

. Folio. Pp. (viii), 644, (32) index. With woodcut devices on title and the last page. Several woodcut initials and headpieces. Some browning to the text. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with five raised bands and title label, rubbed, the boards nicely restored. Dedicated to Augustus I, Elector of Saxony. Second enlarged edition (first 1583) of Bizzari's classical work on Persia together with tracts, relating to Persia and the Turks by Callimachus, Tommaso Minadoi, Josaphat Barbaro and Ambrose Contarini. Pietro Bizzari (1525-86) studied at Venice but converted to protestanism at an early age and lived most of his life in England and Germany. His classical work covers the Persian history from the antiquity up to 1580's. Diba p. 177. Schwab i, 47. Wilson p. 23.

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Book number: 100769

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, persia, perse, persian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, history, exploration,

BJOERNSTJERNA (BJÖRNSTJERNA, BJORNSTJERNA), C.M.:

Britterne i Indien. Föredrag hållet i Stockholms Officers-Klubb. Stockholm 1858.

. Pp. 120. Contemporary half calf, spine worn. Some staining.

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Book number: 14210

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, asia, asiatica, asien, asie, orient, east, south asia, indien, india, central asia, Central Asia & India, indien, zentralasien, asie central, asie centrale

BJÖRNSTJERNA (BJORNSTJERNA, BJOERNSTJERNA), MAGNUS:

Om hinduernas théogoni, philosophi och kosmogoni. Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1843.

. Pp. (iv), vi, viii, 180, (1) errata. With engraved portrait pasted in, one folding map and one folding table. Original cloth ruled in gilt with elephant in gilt on upper cover, calf spine richly decorated in gilt, rebacked, marbled edges. Remains of glue at inner hinges. With some corrections and annotations in the preface otherwise a very nice and clean copy. This work was translated into German and English.

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Book number: 99243

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, east, travel, voyage, exploration, explore

BLADH, P.J., & HORNSTEDT, C.F.:

Reseanteckningar. ("Skrifter utgifna af Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland. X"). Helsingfors 1888.

. Pp. (vi), 176. Original printed wrappers. Uncut copy. Contains: 1. BLADH, P.J., Anteckningar under en ekonomisk resa till Tyskland, Nederländerna och Paris åren 1799-1800. Pp 1-74. A travel account mainly described from a commercial point of view. And; 2. HORNSTEDT, C.F., Anteckningar under en resa till Ostindien åren 1782-86. Pp 75-176. A narrative by a Swedish botanist Klas Fredrik Hornstedt, a pupil of Carl Peter Thunberg. Contains a collection of letters from his voyage to the Cape and Java during the years 1783-1785. Aalto p.19.

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Book number: 14211

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, europa, europe, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, germany, netherlands, holland, germany, asia, east, cape, java, indonesia, south africa, viajes, viaggio, reisen

BLAKISTON, THOMAS WRIGHT:

Five Months on the Yang-tsze; with a Narrative of the Exploration of its Upper Waters, and Notices of the Present Rebellions in China. London, J. Murray, 1862.

. Pp. xiv, (ii), 380. With frontispiece, 15 wood engraved plates, two folding maps, seven text illustrations and one specimen page from the author's field-book. Occasionally some staining. Publisher's gilt cloth, faded and extremities lightly rubbed. Bookplate (J. Leveson Gower). First edition of a scarce work which for many years was considered the standard of the region including an accurate map of the river from Hankow to Pingshan. Thomas W. Blakiston (1832-91) was a British army officer and naturalist who was posted to Canton during the second Opium War in 1859. He organised an exploration of the middle and upper course of the Yang-tsze-Kiang in 1861. The mission was to ascend the river as far as the Min, and then cross the province of Szechuan, and reach north-western India via Tibet and Lhasa. The party reached Pingshan after having travelled eighteen hundred miles from Shanghai which was further than any other European explorer before them. This narrative contains interesting information about the country including the fauna and flora, and also comments on the politically volatile situation in China at the time. The illustrations are by Alfred Barton. Cordier BS 121. Löwendahl 1263.

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Book number: 120534

Catalogue: East Asia

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

BLED DE BRAINE, J.F.:

Cours synthétique, analytique et practique de langue arabe, arrangé a l'usage des colléges et des écoles, ou les dialectes vulgaires africains d'Alger, de Maroc, de Tunis et d'Egypte, enseignés sans maitre. Ouvrage divisé en douze lecons. Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1846.

. Pp. xxii, 536. Original cloth, spine damaged and back cover loose. First edition. Zenker BO ii, 194.

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Book number: 29091

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, , linguistics, languages, asia, asien, asie, asiatica, orient, near east, near india, middle east, arabic, arab, arabia, egypt, algeria, maroc, morocco, tunisia, first edition, egypte, inde, moyen orient, linguistique, language, langue, sprache

[DEAF-MUTE]. BLOMKVIST, JEHUBBA PETRUS:

Om läroanstalter för döfstumma med särskildt hänseende till tal- och språkundervisningen. Stockholm, Ivar Haeggströms Boktryckeri, 1875.

. Pp. (viii), 244. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, rubbed. Some minor foxing. A Swedish work on deaf-mute education in Europe comprising an historical background and detailed descriptions of the different educational institutions in Preussen, Weissenfels, Osnabrück, Riehen and Brühl respectively. First edition. The author started up a school for deaf-mutes in Örebro in 1875. It was the first school in Sweden to follow the German method by basing the education on sounds and tones.

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Book number: 38041

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, deaf, deaf-mute, deaf and dumb, sign language, language, langue, lingustic

BLUNT, LADY ANNE & BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (Ed.):

Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates. Edited, with a Preface and Some Account of the Arabs and Their Horses, by W(ilfrid) S(cawen) B(lunt). Two volumes. London, John Murray, 1879.

. Pp. xviii, (3), 346; vii, (3), 283, adv. pp. 33. With one coloured folding map (two small tears in margin), twelve engraved plates and a folding chart of Arabian thoroughbreds. Contemporary half red cloth decorated in gilt and black, rebacked with red morocco, spines ruled in gilt with five raised bands and title-labels. Recased with new end-papers. Occasionally some staining and a few leaves with dog-ears. First edition.Lady Anne Blunt was the granddaughter of Lord Byron and the wife of the famous Arab scholar and poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. The couple travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East from the late 1870s normally mainly without guides or the usual caravans. During this period Lady Anne became fluent in Arabic and she gained insights into the people and their customs. Her journals give a comprehensive view of desert life. Robinson p. 6.

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Book number: 120621

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabia, arabic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, lady traveller,

BLUNT, LADY ANNE (Baroness Wentworth):

Voyage en Arabie. Pèlerinage au Nedjed, berceau de la race arabe. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1882.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), lxviii, 447. With one map and 60 wood-engraved illustrations drawn by G. Vuillier after water colours by the author. Contemporary half calf, spine with four raised bands and title, g.e., lightly rubbed. First French edition translated from the English (1879) by L. Derome. Anne Blunt and her husband poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East between 1877 and 1897. They bought Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen and the Egyptian Pasha Sherif. Lady Anne became fluent in Arabic and gained insights into the people's life and customs. Her journals give a comprehensive view of desert life. Robinson p. 6.

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Book number: 121211

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabia, arabe, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, lady traveller, desert,

BOCK, FRIEDRICH SAMUEL:

Kurtz gefasste Missionsgeschicht, oder Merkwürdige Nachrichten von den in neuern Zeiten angewandten Bemühungen die Heyden zum christlichen Glauben zu bekehren. Köningsberg, Verlag J. H. Hertungs, 1743.

. Pp. 336, Register (12). Small repair to one leaf (pp. 7/8). Contemporary boards, title in manuscript on spine, some staining to covers. Copy of Ericsberg. First edition. A treatise of heathendom and missionary activities in general. Includes chapters about the Danish mission in India; the Dutch acitivities; the British in the East and West Indies; the Swedish mission in Lapland; and the Russians among the Ostjaks. Bock (1716-86) was professor of theology at Königsberg. Sabin 6105.

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Book number: 99929

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, travels, voyage, exploration, explore, ericsberg, india, west indies, lapland, ostjaks

BOCTHOR, ELLIOUS / CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, ARMAND PIERRE:

Dictionnaire francais-arabe. Revue et augmenté par A. Caussin de Perceval. Troisième édition. Paris, Didot Frères, 1864.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), iv, 867. Slightly later half calf, spine with five raised bands and gilt monogram, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, upper edges gilt. Copy of Arconti-Visconti, wellknown Italian orientalist and traveller in the 19th century. Binding somewhat rubbed. Some light staining at beginning and end. The author, an Egyptian copt, became professor of Arabic at the Royal Library in Paris. Gay 3384. Zenker BOi, 59. (first edition 1828).

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Book number: 34115

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, arabia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue, linguistic

BOCTHOR, ELLIOUS / CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, ARMAND PIERRE:

Dictionnaire français-arabe. Revue et augmenté par A. Caussin de Perceval. Two volumes in one. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828-29.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 461, (1); (iv), 435. Text browned throughout, partly some marginal staining. Some scribbling to the front end-paper. Numerous marginal annotations in French and Arabic by a scholar. Contemporary marbled boards, new calf spine with old title label (worn) preserved. Scarce first edition of the first proper French- Arabic (Vulgar) dictionary compiled by two renowned Orientalists. Ellious Bocthor was an Egyptian Copt who left Egypt with the French army at the end of the Napoleon Bonaparte expedition (1798-1801) and became professor of Vulgar Arabic at the Royal Library in Paris. Bocthor died in 1821 at the young age of thirty-seven before the dictionary was finalised. It was completed by Caussin de Perceval, Bocthor's successor at the School of Modern Oriental Languages. Cf. Gay 3384 (third edition 1864). Bibl. de Silvestre de Sacy, no. 2859. Vater p. 457. Zenker BO i, 59.

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Book number: 38055

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, arabia, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, dictionary, dictionnaire,