FEER, LÉON:

Le Tibet, le pays, le people, la religion. Paris 1886.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 107. With textual illustrations. Original printed boards, cloth spine, rubbed at corners. Publisher's stamp on free front endpaper. First edition. Leon Feer (1830-1902), a Buddhist scholar who wrote numerous works about Tibet and Buddhism. Included in "Bibliothèque Ethongraphique". Yakushi (1984) F25.

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Book number: 100006

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FORBES, DUNCAN:

A Grammar of the Hindustani Language, in the Oriental and Roman Character. ... To which is added, a copious selection of easy extracts for reading in the Persi-Araic & Devanagari characters, forming a complete introduction to the Bagh-o-Bahar. London 1846.

. Comprises: Grammar pp. xii, 148; Extracts lvs (40) with Arabic/Devaganari text; Vocabulary pp. 40. With frontispiece and 14 engraved plates with characters. Original blindstamped cloth, rubbed, rebacked original spine preserved. Old ownership siganture on front endpaper. Stamp on title. First edition. A valuable work on the Hindustani language based on previous works by Gilchrist, Yates, Ibrahim and Ballantyne but has been designed and structure in a new and original way. Vater p. 494.

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FORBES, M.C.:

To Kulu and Back. With Two maps. List of Routes, Shooting Regulations, and Rules Regarding Coolies, Supplies, Rest-Houses, &c. Simla, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1911.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (iv), 160, xxviii. With one folding frontispiece map and one large folding map at rear (tears at fold and some wormholes). Some small wormholes throughout and some slight water staining. Original green cloth with gilt lettering, worn. Bookplate. First edition. An early guide book about journeying in the Himalayas at the beginning of the 20th century including different routes to Kulu from the direction of Simla. Yakushi (1984) F87.

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Book number: 99362

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FOX, HENRY WATSON:

Chapters on Missions in South India. London, Seeleys, 1848.

. Small 8vo. Pp. viii, 235, adv. 16. Publisher's cloth, blindstamped covers, gilt lettering to spine, spine faded, small handwritten label to foot of spine. First edition by a British missionary to the Telugu people in Masulipatam. His work was primarly composed as a guide to missionary life in the region. Several chapters are devoted to the Hindu religion.

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Book number: 100573

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FRANCKE, AUGUST HERMANN:

Sketch of Ladakhi grammar. In Cooperation with other Moravian Missionaries. Calcutta 1901.

. Pp. (vi), 63. Interleaved copy. Modern marbled boards, calf spine with red title label. First edition. This grammar, probably the first of its kind, was revised by Sir Grierson who also corrected the terminology. Francke was a German missionary who served in Ladakh and Lahul for several years. Later he was appointed the first professor of Tibetan at the Berlin University. Includes an Appendix containing idioms and useful sentences with literal translation. (Published as Extra No. 2 to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. LXX, part I, 1901). Cordier BS 2938.

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GARCIN DE TASSY, JOSEPH HÉLIODORE SAGESSE VERTU:

Rudimens de la langue hindoustani, a l'usage des élèves de l'école royale et spéciale des langues orientales vivantes. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1829. AND: APPENDICE aux rudimens de la langue hindoustani, contenant, outre quelques additions a la grammaire, des lettres hindoustani originales, accompagnées d'une traduction et de fac-simile. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1833.

. 4to. Pp. 99, (1); 68. With seven engraved plates. Uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards, wide margins, rubbed and chipped at extremities. Some minor staining. First editions. Garcin de Tassy, French orientalist who devoted his life to the study of Urdu. He spent fifty years reading and writing about the language and its literature. He was one of the founders and later president of the Société Asiatique. He compiled these two works to be used by students learning the Urdu language. The first work is an outline grammar and the second comprises twenty-one letters written with different styles of composition, and in different scripts (nasta'liq, shikasteh and nagari). Ref.: De Sacy 2956. Vater p.168.

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GESTRICH, JON. SAM. & BERGGREN, GUSTAV:

Dissertatio de Gange fluvio. Parts I-II. Lund (1804).

. 4to. Pp. 18. Uncut copy. Unbound. Scarce dissertation on the river Ganges.

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DE GRANDPRÉ, LOUIS MARIE JOSEPH O'HIER COMTE:

A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the Years 1789 and 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale; the Character and Arts of the people of India; with some Remarkable Religious Rites of the Inhabitants of Bengal. To which is Added, a Voyage in the Red Sea; Including a Description of Mocha, and of the Trade of the Arabs of Yemen; ... Two volumes in one. London 1803.

. Pp. (ii), 273, (1); (ii), 303. With six engraved plates, of which two large folding views of Fort William and the monument Black-hole in Calcutta. Without half titles. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt dentelles on covers, spine richly gilt in compartments and with red title label, spine rubbed, skillfully rebacked with original spine preserved. Bookplate. First English edition translated from the French original (Paris 1801). In 1790 Grandpré started his voyage from ële de France (Mauritius) and travelled via the Maldives to the Seychelles, India, Cochin China, Yemen and Ceylon. This informative account describes the customs of the people along the route, commerce and navigation, and about the Arabic influence in India. Grandpré was also very much concerned with the European influence in the area, especially concerning the French at Pondichery, India. The part on the Red Sea and Yemen contains a.o. information about the cultivation, customs and trade of coffee. Hünersdorff, Coffee Bibliography, i, p. 600.

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Book number: 44032

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GRIERSON, GEORGE ABRAHAM:

Bih‹r Peasant Life, being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Prepared under Orders of the Government of Bengal. Calcutta, the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1885.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), 4, (2), 7, vi, 428, appendix xvii, index clv. With one coloured map as frontispiece, 39 full page lithographed plates and many illustrations in the text after photographs taken by the author. Original blue cloth, spine ends chipped and part of upper hinge split. Ex. museum library copy. With old inscription on title by Reinhold Rost (German Orientalist, chief librarian at the India Office). First edition. A comprehensive dictionary listing and explaining names and words connected with rural life in Bihar, a state in eastern India. It covers in detail agriculture, animal husbandry, housing, clothing, trade and money-dealing, etc. The Bihar words are given in native characters with English transliteration.Grierson was an Irish-born linguist who served for many years in British India. He would eventually become Magistrate and Collector at Patna and, later, Opium Agent for Bihar. He was appointed Superintendent of the newly formed Linguistic survey of India and moved to England "for convenience of consulting European libraries and scholars".

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GRIERSON, GEORGE ABRAHAM:

An Introduction to the Maithil’ Language of North Bihâr Containing Grammar, Chrestomathy & Vocabulary. Parts I-II. Two volumes. Calcutta, Asiatic Society, 1881-2.

. Pp. (ii), viii, 114, two appendices, errata lvs. 3; pp. (iv), 267. Modern boards. First edition of the first grammar and vocabulary of the Maithili language, a distinct Indo-Aryan language spoken by the inhabitants of Bihar in Eastern India and the Tarai districts of Nepal. Prior to Grierson's work Maithili was thought to be simply a corrupt form of Hindi. Grierson was an Irish-born linguist who served for many years in British India. He published numerous studies in the journals of learned associations and became Superintendent of the monumental Linguistic survey of India founded in 1894. These two parts were published as extra numbers to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, parts one and two. (1880 and 1882). Not in Vater.

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HAMILTON, ROBERT-CLIFTON:

An Outline Grammar of the Dafla Language as Spoken by the Tribes immediately South of the Apa Tanang Country. Shillong, The Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1900.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), 6, 127, (1). Small damage to upper right corner in parts (no loss). Original blue printed boards, cloth spine. Presentation copy to Ralph Lilley Turner (British Orientalist and linguist). First edition of a grammar of the Dafla or Nishi language. This is a Tibetan-Burman language spoken by groups in Assam on the North-East frontier of British India. The author describes the Eastern rather than the Western dialect of the Dafla language. A limited edition of 300 copies.

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Book number: 120642

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HARKNESS, HENRY:

A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race Inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills, or Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India. London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1832.

. Pp. viii, 176. With engraved frontispiece and 3 beautiful engraved plates. Contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands and title label, marbled edges, worn and hinges starting to split. Internally clean and crisp. Copy of Signet Library, with gilt crest on covers. First edition. A narrative about the Nilgiri Mountains (or Blue Mountains), bordering the Karnataka Plateau and Kerala states in southern India. It's a mountainous region which was unknown to the British until 1818 but later became their favourite summer and weekend getaway.

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Book number: 40004

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HEBER, REGINALD:

Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825. (With Notes upon Ceylon). An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India. Second edition. Three volumes. London, J. Murray, 1828.

. Pp. lxvii, (1), 450; (viii), 564; (viii), 527, (1), viii. With 28 engraved plates. A good, uncut copy in contemporary boards, cloth spines (slightly faded) with title labels. Old ownership signature on titles. Reverend Heber, the Bishop of Calcutta, first arrived in India in 1823. He travelled extensively around the country for some years and died in Madras in 1826. His work is based on letters and diary notes and was posthumously published by his widow Amalia Heber. First published in quarto in the same year (1828). Occasionally some minor staining but overall a crisp, good copy. "A highly valuable and most delightful work" (Lowndes ii, p. 1030).

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Book number: 32051

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HEDIN, SVEN, etc.:

Southern Tibet. Discoveries in Former Times Compared with My Own Researches in 1906-1908. Volumes 1-9 + Atlas of Tibetan Panoramas + Maps 1-2. Stockholm, Lithographic Institute of the General Staff of the Swedish Army, 1916 - 22.

. Complete edition with nine text volumes in 4to and four volumes of maps in folio, and the Prospectus. The text volumes, unopened and unread, in original printed wrappers, some discolouration, with light wear. The map volumes as issued loose in original printed wrappers (Maps I and II) and in original decorated cloth folder (Atlas and Map I, second part). Prospectus in original printed wrappers, worn.First edition of Hedin's monumental work on Tibet which is richly illustrated throughout with photographic plates, maps and drawings, many by Hedin himself. Includes a comprehensive historical account of the exploration of the area extensively illustrated with facsimiles of earlier maps of the region. During the 28 months' expedition in Tibet Hedin succeeded in surveying and mapping the great mountain system of Transhimalaya and established the exact sources of the Indus, Brahmaputra, and Sutlej. The maps show general routes, hypsometrical maps (52 sheets) and 105 tables of Tibetan Panoramas. "The most important and comprehensive collection of material relating to Tibet up to the date of publication. Not only does it include detailed accounts of Transhimalaya, the Karakoram, Chang Tang and Lake Manasarowar regions, but also in-depth studies of previous explorers of the region, and a particularly important collection of maps of the entire area." Hess, I, pp. 49-51. Yakushi (1984) H105.

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HEDIN, SVEN:

Transhimalaya. Upptäckter och äfventyr i Tibet. Original parts in three volumes. Stockholm 1909-12.

. As issued in parts in 19 original wrappers. Spine to one wrapper torn and one wrapper chipped. As issued loose in publisher's pictorial red cloth (three volumes), spines faded. Pp. (xx), 665, (3); 593, (3); 591, (8). With ten maps, mostly folding and coloured, and more than 100 full page or double page plates, of which several in colour. Numerous illustrations throughout the text. First edition of Hedin's narrative of his expedition to Tibet in 1906-1908. He surveyed the mountains north of the upper Brahmaputra which he called the Transhimalaya. Hess p. 23.

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Book number: 100252

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