FOUCAUX, PHILPPE-ÉDOUARD:

Grammaire de la langue tibétaine. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1858.

. Pp. xxxii, 231. Modern half calf, original wrappers with bound. Wrappers glued together with first and last leaves at inner margin. (Half title and last text leaf). One small hole in margin of last leaf. Some light staining throughout. Provenance: Staffan Rosén, professor of Korean at Upsala (Bookplate). Previously owned by Olov Bertil Andersson, Swedish sinologist, with his signature.First edition of the first Tibetan grammar in French. Foucaux (1811-1894) was a leading authority on Tibetan language and culture in Paris. He published a large number of Tibetan and Sanskrit works. Cordier BS 2933. Not in Vater or Zaunmüller.

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Book number: 121367

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, tibet, tibetan, language, langue, lingustic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, east asia, china

MAILLART, ELLA K.:

Forbidden Journey. From Peking to Kashmir. London 1937.

. Pp. xvi, 312. With frontispiece (a few small tears at rear), three maps and 35 pages with multiple illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth, rubbed, endpapers toned. Old ownership signature. First English edition, later printing, published in the same year as the original French edition "Oasis interdites". Ella Maillart (1903-97) was born in Switzerland and loved to travel to find "the truth" within herself. n 1934 commissioned as a special correspondent for the French newspaper "Petit Parisien" she went to Manchuria. From there, together with the British explorer Peter Fleming, she made a tough journey home through the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts to the Hindu Kush ravines. Robinson p. 52. Yakushi (1984) M42b.

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Book number: 121281

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, central asia, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, travel, exploration, travels, explore, manchuria, india, china, chine, afghanistan, mongolia, lady traveller

WILKINS, CHARLES:

A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language. London, Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co., and sold by Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, Booksellers to the Honourable the East India Company, 1808.

. 4to. Pp. iii-xx, 662 (half title is missing). With five engraved plates. Rebound in half calf, title label on spine. Library stamp on title (Biblioth. Semin. Philad. S. Caroli Borr.) and "Ex Libris Biblioth.S. Caroli Borrom." written by hand. Title page slightly chipped along margins. Partly with some light foxing, some offsetting to the text from the engraved plates. Four leaves heavily browned from inlaid loose papers with scholarly notes. Some old neat annotations in a few places. Very rare in the trade.The first English grammar of the Sanskrit language. The Devanagari types used are cut and cast by the Wilkins himself. In the Preface he explains that he began preparing the types in 1795. However, a fire destroyed all the types and it was not until 1808 that he was encouraged by the East India College to continue this work.Charles Wilkins (1749-1836), famous orientalist, who in 1770 came to India in the service of the East India Company. He was a pioneer in the study of Sanskrit and best known for publishing the first English translation of the Bhagavad Gita in 1785. This introduced Indian culture to the western world. Upon his return to England he was appointed first librarian of the India House Library (now British Library, Oriental Collections). Ref: De Sacy 2933. Thonnelier 1480. Vater p.332. See Windisch 22-23. Provenance: The Roman Catholic Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia was founded in 1832. (Charles Borromeo was Latin Archbishop in Milan 1564-8). In 2016, the Seminary underwent a reconstruction and downsizing. To raise funds, the Seminary sold paintings and rare books from its library at auctions. Furthermore, we would like to add that there is a note: "Arthur Mostyn Owen September 1829" in two places (pp. 352 and 493) which makes us believe that this copy has belonged to him. Owen (1814-96) attended the East India College at Haileybury 1829-31.

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Book number: 121454

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, india, indian, sanskrit, language, langue, lingustic, asia, asien, asie, asiatic