[MISSIONARY GAME].

The American Baptist Missionary Union. Copyright, 1885, by Fred T. Bailey. No place (about 1885).

. The game consists of twelve books with four cards each. Size: 6.2 x 10.6 cm. An extra card with information about the Missionary Union and a folded sheet with instructions about the game (reinforced at folds). Each card indicates the name among whom the mission started, the location, the year and the name of the Pioneer missionary. Including four from Burma, four from India, one from Siam, one from Macao, one from Japan and one from Congo. With text in English and on the back of the card is "The Lord's Prayer" printed in Burmese characters. Some staining to thecards. "The American Baptist Missionary Union was first founded in 1814. Missionary work started among the Burmese in Rangoon and gradually extended to other tribes and nations. At this time (1885) there were fourteen stations in Burma: six in Assam, twelve among the Telugus, five among the Chinese, and four in Japan", according to the introduction. Comprises: 1. Burmese, Rangoon, Adoniram Judson 1814. 2. Karens, Tavoy, Geo D. Boardman 1828. 3. Shans, Toungoo, Moses H. Bixy 1861. 4. Ka-Chins, Bhamo (Burma), W.H, Roberts 1877. 5. Assamese, Sadiya, Nathan Brown 1836. 6. Garos, Gowalpara (Assam), I.J. Stoddard 1863. 7. Nagas, Haimoung (Assam), E.W. Clark 1876. 8. Telugus, Chicacole (Andhra Pradesh), Samuel S. Day 1836. 9. Chinese in Siam, Bangkok, William Dean 1833. 10. Chinese in China, Macao, J.L. Shuck 1836. 11. Japanese, Yokohama, Nathan Brown 1872. 12. Congo, Palaballa, Henry Craven 1878. The game is complete and housed in a specially made cloth box. Some staining but a very good copy of this fascinating game, which must be extremely rare to find complete.

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[BURMA - PHOTOGRAPHS].

A collection of Twenty-five Original Gelatin Silver Photographs. About 1895.

. Twenty-five photographs with images of Rangoon and Mandalay, while the last two are of Penang Island and the Bridge of Penta K›ta. Each photo measures about 15 x 23 cm, four are slightly smaller. The photographs are pasted on grey thick paper (27 x 35 cm) with manuscript caption labels in French. A few of the photographs with minor silvering of the photo margins, the paper mounts have some mild traces of moisture exposure but overall the condition is very good. This is an interesting documentation of British Burma at the turn of the 20th century. (Burma was under British rule between 1886 and 1948). Fifteen of the photos are devoted to Rangoon and its vicinity; of the harbour, street scenes, elephant at work, several of the Shuedagon pagoda, of the Sule pagoda and a few of the countryside. Eight of the photos are taken in Mandalay: city views, the market, Shewenandaw Monastery and the Palace. The Mandalay Palace, built in 1857-9, was the primary royal residence of the last two kings of the country (King Mindon and King Thibaw) up until the Third Burmese War and the annexation by the British Empire. During World War II most of the palace compound was destroyed. The Shewenandaw Monastery is the single remaining major original structure of the original Royal Palace today.

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Book number: 120390

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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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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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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

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CHASE, DORMER AUGUST:

Anglo-Burmese Hand-Book, or Guide to a Practical Knowledge of the Burmese Language. Revised by F.D. Phinney. Rangoon, American Baptist Mission Press, 1890.

. Pp. 209. Original blue cloth, rubbed, remains of old label on spine. Old Asian stamp on title page. Some browning. Copy belonging to the German sinologist Albert von Le Coq with his bookplate. Second edition (first Maulmein 1852) which was revised and rewritten by F.D. Phinney who states in the preface that he has altered the style of the work and "rewritten the Romanized Burmese words as closely as possible in accordance with the Hunterian system". Cordier BI 349.

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Book number: 32122

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COLLIS, MAURICE:

The Journey Outward. An Autobiography. London, Faber & Faber, 1952.

. Pp. (viii), 299. With front portrait and two sketch maps. Publisher's cloth, in the rare dust jacket, with small losses at outer edges. First edition of the first part of Collis' autobiography covering the years up to 1918. Collis entered the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and was posted to Burma as a civil servant in 1912.TOGETHER WITH: Courts of the Shan Princes. London (1939). Pp. 13. With eight illustrations and a map. Some staining. Original printed wrappers, worn. A lecture given at the China Society on January 16, 1939.

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Book number: 120752

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GILL, WILLIAM J.:

Från okända trakter. Resa genom Kina med dess alpländer och östra Tibet till Burma. Stockholm, C. Suneson, 1885.

. Pp. 290. With one folding map. Old ownership signature on title-page. Contemporary marbled boards, morocco spine, decorated and lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed, innner front hinge cracked. A rare, Swedish edition of "The river of golden sand; ..." (London 1880) translated by Dr. C.F. Bagge. "This account of a survey of river and land routes undertaken in 1876-77 by Captain Gill ... ends in Bhamo in Upper Burma, the end-point of Chinese overland trade routes. With detailed route maps and itineraries." Burma, World Bibl. Series, 132. Cordier BI 190-91.

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Book number: 17006

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GILL, WILLIAM J.:

Från okända trakter. Resa genom Kina med dess alpländer och östra Tibet till Burma. Stockholm, C. Suneson, 1885.

. Pp. 290. With one folding map. Uncut and unopened copy in original wrappers, printed in red and black, spine ends slightly chipped. A Swedish edition of "The River of Golden Sand; ...", originally published in London 1880. Translated into Swedish by Dr. C.F. Bagge. Contains a survey of river and land routes undertaken in 1876-77 through China and Tibet ending in Upper Burma. Burma, World Bibl. Series, 132. Cordier BI 190-91.

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Book number: 777086

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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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JUDSON, ANN HASSELTINE:

An Account of the American Baptist Mission: In a series of letters, addressed to a gentleman in London. London 1827.

. Pp. viii, 316, 4 adv. With one folding engraved map. Uncut copy in contemporary paper-covered boards, rubbed, hinges strengthened internally. Second edition (first 1823). Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826) was one of the first female American foreign missionaries and served in Burma for many years with her husband Adoniram Judson. Due to ill health she had to return to England and the States for a short period in 1822-23. During this time she wrote these letters which contain information on missionary work and living circumstances in Burma. A well-preserved copy of a scarce work. Cordier BI 303.

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JUDSON, ANN HASSELTINE:

An Account of the American Baptist Mission: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Gentleman in London. London 1823.

. Pp. xvi, 326. With one folding engraved map (browned). Occasionally some browning. Modern marbled paper boards, calf spine with title printed in gilt. First rare edition. Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826) was one of the first female American foreign missionaries and served in Burma for many years together with her husband Adoniram Judson. Due to bad health she had to return to England and the States for a short period in 1822-23. During that time she wrote these letters which contain information about missionary work and conditions of life in Burma. Cordier BI 303.

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Book number: 121485

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JUDSON, ADONIRAM:

English and Burmese Dictionary. Rangoon, W.H. Sloan, American Mission Press, 1877.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 862 (including a first blank leaf). Contemporary full calf, worn. Flat spine with lettered title. Third, much enlarged edition. First published in 1849 with a reprint in 1866. This edition is enlarged with more than 500 additional definitions. Judson served as missionary in Burma for almost forty years. He was the first agent of the American Baptist Union in Burma founded in 1814. Cordier BI 342.

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Book number: 121273

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JUDSON, SARAH B. & JUDSON, EMILY C.:

Questions on the Apostles. Two volumes bound in one. Maulmain, American Baptist Mission Press, Thomas S. Ranney printer, 1848.

. 16mo. Lvs (73) + (52). With Burmese text, title pages in English. Some staining to front endpaper. Contemporary half calf cloth boards lightly rubbed and stained. First Burmese edition, printed in 500 copies. Provenance: Nashua Historical Society, inscription by Mrs. S. Noyes dated 1873. Very rare work by two American women missionaries serving in Burma.Sarah Hall, American-born missionary, arrived in Burma in 1827 together with her first husband George Broadman. Eventually they settled in Tavoy where they established schools and church for the Karen people. Broadman died in 1831 and a few years later Sarah married missionary Adoniram Judson, one of the pioneers of missionary work in Burma. Sarah made many translations of scriptures, devotional poetry, prepared a hymn book and compiled several books of scripture questions for Sunday schools.Due to poor health Sarah, along with her husband, was on her way home to the USA when she died on St Helena in 1845. Emily Chubbock (with the pen name Fanny Forester) became Adoniram Judson's third wife. They sailed together for Burma in 1846 and there Emily devoted herself to missionary work, wrote and translated several works. She compiled the second part of this work, a continuation of the first part made by Sarah, here posthumously published. "I am now engaged in writing questions on the Acts of the Apostles, in Burmese, for the use of the Bible Classes and Sabbath School. We have a Sabbath School, numbering nearly a hundred children, and a Bible Class of twenty adults" (Fanny Forrester "Memoir of Sarah B. Judson" 1860, p. 162). Not in Cordier.

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KREITNER, GUSTAV / STUXBERG, ANTON (Translator):

I Fjerran Östern. Reseskildringar från Indien, Kina, Japan, Tibet och Birma. Stockholm 1885.

. Pp. viii, 648. With one large folding map and 197 illustrations. Original pictorial cloth printed in gold and black. Bookplate. Old signature. A narrative of Count Béla Széchenyi's expedition to East- and Central Asia 1877-80 by the expedition's geographer Gustav Kreitner. The voyage went to India, China, Japan, Tibet and Burma. Includes information about the Ainu in northern Japan. A lovely copy. Cf Cordier BI 422, BJ 705 & BS 2143.

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Book number: 99743

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