SMYTHIES, OLIVE:

Ten Thousand Miles on Elephants. London 1961.

. Pp. 220. With twenty-two illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth in decorated dust-jacket. Some minor wear to corners of the jacket but overall a great copy. First edition. Esmé Scott-Stevensson wife of a Forestry Officer and conservationist, lived for many years in India. She and her husband travelled in remote areas, on elephants or ponies, sometimes on foot. They also travelled extensively in Burma and Borneo, and resided for some years in Nepal.

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Book number: 121289

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, India, indian, inde, nepal, hmalayas, Burma, borneo, sarawak, brunei, malaysia, indonesia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, lady traveller,

SORENSEN, S.:

Om sanskrits stilling i den almindelige sprogudvikling i Indien. Köbenhavn, Bianco Lunos (F. Dreyer) 1894.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 155-318. Treats the development and postition of the Sanskrit language. Contains a French summary. Included as "D.Kgl. Danske Vidensk Selsk. Skr., 6 Raekke, historisk og filosofisk Afd. iii. 3".

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Book number: 99309

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, sanskrit, language, langue, lingusitic

SPEELMAN, CORNELIS JANSZOON:

[DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY] Journal, oder Kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Au§gangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1667, 1668 und 1669, geführet worden. Hamburg, Gottfried Schultzen, 1670.

. 4to. Pp. (36). Title printed in red and black. Modern boards. Rare, first German edition, first published in Dutch 1669. This is an early account of Makassar (Sulawesi Island), an important trading centre in Indonesia at this time. Cornelis Speelman was born in Rotterdam 1628. At the age of sixteen he travelled to the East Indies, where he remained for the rest of his life in the service of the Dutch East India Company. From the beginning of the 16th century, Makassar was the major trading centre in eastern Indonesia where Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Siamese, Javanese and Malays came to exchange goods (spices, metal goods, textiles, gold, copper, pearls, etc.). Makassar was Sulawesi's major port and centre of the powerful Gowa and Tallo Sultanates. The first Europeans (Portuguese sailors) arrived in the 16th century and the Dutch followed in the early 17th century with the aim of creating a hegemony over the spice trade. In 1666 Speelman led a Dutch expedition to Makassar, aided by Bugis soldiers, succeeding in destroying the strongholds of the Sultanate of Gowa. The Treaty of Bongaja was signed in 1667 between Sultan Hasanudin of Gowa and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) which meant that all traders from Gowa had to apply for licences in order to do business in regions controlled by the VOC. Speelman was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies between 1681 and his death in 1684. A few library copies are found in Germany, one at Cornell and one in the Netherlands. We don't know if this edition was issued with a map. The original Dutch edition doesn't have any map but a few library copies of the German edition do, while others do not have a map. Not in Cordier. Landwehr VOC 238 (no map). Van der Wulp (no map). See Howgego p. 987 (for Speelman).

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Book number: 120313

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, macassar, makassar, east india, east india company, indonesia, batavia, jakarta, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, sulawesi, Ujung Pandang, commerce, trade

STANHOPE, LEICESTER FITZGERALD CHARLES:

Sketch of the History and Influence of the Press in British India; Containing Remarks on the Effects of a Free Press on Subsidiary Alliances, on the Delays of Office; on Superstition; on the Administration of Justice; on Flogging; and on Agriculture. Also, on the Dangers of a Free Press, and the Licentiousness of a Censorship. London, published by C. Chapple, Royal Library, Pall Mall, 1823.

. Pp. viii, 194. Modern quarter calf on marbled paper boards, spine gilt in compartments and with title label, g.e. First edition. Stanhope (1784-1862) was an army officer who in 1817 was appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General in India.

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Book number: 100575

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, press, british india,

STAVORINUS, J.S.:

Resa til Goda Hopps-Udden, Java och Bengalen, företagen och slutad ifrån åren 1768 til 1771. Götheborg, Samuel Norberg, 1798.

. Pp. (iv), 288. Half calf on old marbled boards, lightly rubbed. Partly some light staining. A Swedish edition translated from the German edition (Braunsweig in 1796) about this voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, the East Indies and Bengal. Stavornius, a Dutch Admiral in the service of the Dutch East Indies, gives accurate descriptions of the Cape, Java and Bengal as well as of V.O.C. trading posts.

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Book number: 28114

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, bengalen, bengal, india, java, indonesia, jakarta, cape of good hope, the cape, africa, afrika, asia, asie, asien, asiatic

STEWART, DUNCAN, ESQ. :

A practical Arabic grammar. London, John W. Parker, 1841.

. Pp. 302, advertisement 16. Original cloth, worn and spine missing except a few pieces, hinges weak. First edition. Includes an interesting preface discussing the most important Arabic grammars up to that time. Zenker BO ii, 205.

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Book number: 29090

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, , linguistics, languages, asia, asien, asie, asiatica, orient, near east, near india, middle east, arabic, arab, arabia, first edition, inde, moyen orient, linguistique, language, langue, sprachen, sprache, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, nahe

TAGORE, RABINDRANATH:

[A collection of Hungarian translations of Tagore's poetical works]. Budapest, Vilâgirodalom (Otthon) 1921 & Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Globus) 1922.

. The collection comprises following works:1. A postahivatal. A letétemény. Szerencsét hozo pillanat. élö vagy halott? (The Post Office. The Trust Property. The Auspicious Vision. Living or Dead?). Translated by Zoltân Bartos and Mârton Sârmay. Budapest, Vilâgirodalom (Otthon) 1921. Pp. 190, (2). Uncut in original decorated wrappers, slightly worn. 2. Éhes Kövek (The Hungry Stone). Translated by Zoltân Bartos. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Globus), 1922. Pp. 243. Original decorated wrappers, spine slightly worn. 3. Szüret (Fruit-Gathering). Translated by Zoltân Bartos.Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet, 1922. Pp. 133. Original decorated wrappers.4. Mashi (Mashi). Translated by Mârton Sârmay. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Globus), 1922. Pp. 17, (3). Original decorated wrappers, slightly worn.5. Eltévedt madarak. (Stray Birds). Translated by Zoltân Bartos. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Global), 1922. Pp. 94, (2). Original decorated wrappers. 6. Szerelmi Ajândék. (Lover's Gift and Crossing). Translated by Zoltân Bartos. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Global), 1922. Pp. 90, (2). Original decorated wrappers.7. Növekvö Hold. (Sisu: The Crescent Moon). Translated by Ben› Zsoldos. Budapest, Pantheon Iradalmi Intézet, 1922. Pp. 112, (4). Original decorated wrappers, spine lightly worn.8. Hazatérés. (The Home-Coming). Translated by Mârton Sârmay. Budapest, Pantheon Irodalmi Intézet (Otthon), 1922. Pp. 125, (3). Original decorated wrappers, with light wear. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), renowned Bengali poet, novelist, educator and composer has been considered to be the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 as the first Asian recipient. A charming decorative set of Tagore's Bengali poetry, the first translations into Hungarian. The beautiful covers with Indian-style ornamentation are designed by çlmos Jaschik (1885-1950), a renowned Hungarian graphic artist and scenic designer. 

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Book number: 120687

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, indian, india, indien, hungary, hungarian, literature, poetry, bengali, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

TAGORE, RABINDRANATH:

The Gardener. Translated by the author from the original Bengali. London, Macmillian and Co., 1913.

. Pp. (viii), 150, (2) adv. With front portrait of Tagore at the age of 16. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with some minor wear. A card with Tagore's signature loosely inlaid. A few pages with small stain and some browning to the paper along edges, as usual. Tiny repair at very top of a few pages. First edition in English. Dedicated to W.B. Yeats. The Gardener, originally written in Bengali, is a book of love poems. According to the preface by Tagore: "Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literal - the originals being sometimes abridged and sometimes paraphrased." Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 as the first Asian recipient. He has been considered to be the greatest writer in modern Indian literature.

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Book number: 121163

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, literature, poems, poem, bengali, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

TAGORE, SOURINDRO MOHUN (Compiler):

Hindu Music from Various Authors. Part I. [For Private Circulation only]. Calcutta, Babu Punchanun Mekerjea, 1875.

. Pp. (xii), x, 315. With many illustrations. Contemporary red morocco, richly decorated in gilt, g.e., lightly rubbed. First edition. Comprises: "Treatise on the Music of Hindustan" by Captain N. Augustus Willard; "On the Musical Modes of the Hindus" By Sir William Jones; "On the Vina or Indian Lye" by Francis Fowke, etc. ; "The Oriental Music of Hindustan" by William C. Stafford; Music of the Hindus" by J. Nathan; Catalogue of Indian Musical Instruments" by Col. P.T. French; "Music of Ceylon" by John Davy, and more. A second part was issued in 1882 to accompany the second edition. Sourindo Mohun Tagore (1840-1914) was a famous Indian musicologist, having trained in his youth both Western and Indian classical traditions. He founded two institutions, the Bengal Music School in 1871 and the Bengal Academy of Music in 1882.

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Book number: 120933

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, music, ceylon, hindusrtan, musical,

TAGORE, RABINDRANATH:

The Parrot's Training. (Translated by the author from its original Bengali). Calcutta and Simla, Thacker & Spink & Co., 1918.

. 4to. Pp. (12). With eight full-page plates drawn by Abanindranath Tagore (nephew of Rabindranath Tagore). Some staining. Original pictorial paper wrappers designed by Nanda Lal Bose, one of Tagore's most famous pupils. Rare first English edition. The Bengali original "Tota Kahini" was published earlier the same year in the famous journal Sabujapatra. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), renowned Bengali poet, novelist, educator and composer has been considered to be the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 as the first Asian recipient. This story is Tagore's famous satire on the futility of education through rote-learning from books - 'parrot-fashion' - then prevalent in India. He was a pioneer of creative education in India and started the school Patha Bhavana at Santiniketan in 1901 with a philosophy of learning close to the heart as opposed to the strict and repetitive learning system that was common during Tagore's childhood. The poem is a metaphorical story about a king who wants to teach a carefree parrot about traditions and customs, not understanding that they mean nothing to the parrot and that the parrot just wishes to be free. The humorous drawings are by Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the Bengal School of Art.

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Book number: 120549

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, education, exploration, literature,

[SANSKRIT]. TARKALANKARA, CANDRAKANTA:

[Title in Sanskrit]. Udvaha candralokah. A treatise on the marriage rites of the Hindus. According to the Dharmahastras. Sherpur 1897.

. Pp. (viii), 186. Text in Sanskrit. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, repaired and stained. Published by Sri Haracandra Caudhuri Vidyavinoda. The author was professor in Sanskrit at Calcutta.

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Book number: 28143

Catalogue: South Asia

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

TARKARATNA, RçMNçTH:

... çryâ Lahari (containing 90 verses). Calcutta, Printed and published by B.N. Nandy, at the Valmiki Press, 1896.

. Pp. (vi), 222. Text in Sanskrit, also with title and dedication in English. Contemporary half cloth, spine gilt with title label (faded), lightly rubbed. Bookplate.

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Book number: 100501

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, literature, travel, exploration, sanskrit

TAXA (SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY)

TAXA (SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY), hwarefter afgiften til Kongl. Maj:t och Kronan uppå de waror, som ifraan Ost-Indien med Swenska skepp inkomma och uti riket faa qwarblifwa, beraeknas och erlaeggas. Gifwen Stockholms Slott den 17 april 1799. Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1799.

. 4to. Pp. 8 (last leaf blank). Unbound, entirely uncut.

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Book number: 12192

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asien, asie, orient, east, far east, east asia, china, chine, kina, east india company, inde, ferne osten, extreme orient, extreme-orient, ferner osten

TAXA (SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY)

TAXA (SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY), hwarefter afgiften til Kongl. Maj:t och Kronan, uppaa de waror, som ifrån Ost-Indien med Swenska skepp inkomma och uti riket saa qwarblifwa, beräknas och erläggas; gifwen Gripsholms Slott den 6 juni 1782. Stockhplm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1782.

. 4to. 8 pp (last leaf blank). Unbound, entirely uncut.

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Book number: 12193

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asien, asie, orient, east, far east, east asia, china, chine, kina, east india company, inde, ferne osten, extreme orient, extreme-orient, ferner osten

TORÉN, OLOF & EKEBERG, CARL GUSTAV / LINNÉ, CARL VON (Editor):

Reise des Herrn Olof Toree nach Surate und China, nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung von der chinesischen Feldökonomiae und einer Nachricht von dem gegenwärtigen Zustande der engländischen Colonien in dem nördlichen Amerika. Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1772.

. Pp. (ii), 238. Modern boards, new endpapers. Some light staining. The first part contains a German translation of Torén's account of his voyage to China in 1750-52, in the form of letters to Linné (first published in Stockholm 1772). The second part is a German translation of Ekeberg's "Kort berättelse om den Chinesiska Landt-hushållningen" first published in Stockholm 1757. Cordier BS 2097-98. Sabin 96191.

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Book number: 14070

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, travels, voyages, explaration, explore, natural histury, ethnography, linneaus