AMADUZZI, GIOVANNI CRISTOFORO (Ed.):

Alphabetum brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi. Romae, Typis Sac. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1771.

. Pp. (xx), 152. Text in Hindi with interlinear Latin text. Old half green morocco, flat gilt spine. First edition of an important type specimen of the Hindustani language. It includes the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria and the Apostles' Creed and treats the language and script used at the University of Kas’ or Benares, in the Indian province of Bihar. The script is rendered in Kaithi characters, a more current form of the Nagari characters, and was written by Cassianus da Macerata Beligatti (1708-91). The types were cut already at the start of the Propaganda Press but not used until a century later. They were first displayed in Georgius' "Alphabetum Tibetanum" of 1759. Birrel & Garnett 12. Updike, Printing Types I, (1951), pp 181-3. Smitskamp PO 206.

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Book number: 13122

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, india, east india, south asia, indien, hindustani, hindi, sanskrit, language, langue, linguistic, hindi-urdu

ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, ABRAHAM HYACINTHE:

Législation Orientale, ouvrage dans lequel, en montrant quels sont en Turquie, en Perse, et dans l'Indoustan les principles fondamentaux du gouvernement, on prouve, .... Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1778.

. 4to. Pp. (xvi), vi, 312, (38) table. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title label, extremities worn, spine ends chipped. Small marginal hole to half title and some very light staining to lower right corner of first thirteen leaves. First edition. Devoted to Muslim law, politics and government in Turkey, Persia and India. The author argues that Montesqieu's view of oriental despotism was wrong. Anquetil-Duperron, French scholar and linguist who travelled to India to search for ancient Zoroastrian texts. He acquired and translated almost 200 such manuscripts.

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Book number: 121382

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, turkish, turkey, persia, persian, india, inde, indian, oriental, exploration, legislation, islam,

ARDENT DU PICQ, CHARLES GÉNÉRAL:

Histoire d'une citadelle annamite Bac-Ninh. Hanoi 1935.

. Pp. 176. With 19 plates made from photographs, 7 maps or plans (of which 6 large folding) and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Original printed wrappers bound in. First edition of a comprehensive historical study of the province of Bac-Ninh, a province in the North of Vietnam. Includes a bibliography.

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Book number: 18012

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, indochina, indochine, indo-china, indo-chine, southeast asia, southeast asia, vietnam, annam

BACON, THOMAS / FINDEN, WILLIAM & EDWARD (Engr.):

The Oriental Annual, Containing a Series of Tales, Legends, & Historical Romances. London, Charles Tilt, 1839.

. Pp. (ii), xii, 250. With 18 steel engravings after drawings by the author, including frontispiece and extra title. All protected by tissue guards. Publisher's embossed cloth, spines and covers blind-stamped and richly decorated in gilt, a.e.g. This work is devoted to Northern India. Places visited are Ghazipur, Benares, Bettiah, Agra, Gohal, Haridwar and the Himalayas. A great copy. This volume is included in William Daniell's "The Oriental Annual" of which this is the last, published after Daniell's death.

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Book number: 121115

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, illustrated,

BAIL, FRANCIS WILLIAM:

[HUNGARIAN MANUSCRIPT] A Hajnal Leânya. Hindu Rege. (Heifer of the Dawn. Hindu Legend). 20th century.

. Illustrated manuscript with text in Hungarian. Beautiful handwriting accompanied by lovely watercolour illustrations. Size: 15.7 x 18.8 cm. Pp. 61. Contemporary green cloth with painted colour illustration on upper cover, pretty floral end papers. Inscription dated 1958 on free front end paper. A fictional "Hindu" tale written by Francis William Bail, a British writer and an expert in Sanskrit literature. He wrote fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from ancient Sanskrit tales, but eventually it turned out that he had written the fairy tales himself.

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Book number: 121036

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, Hungarian, Hungary, illustrated, Hindu legend, Indian, India, asia, asien, asiatic, literature,

BALLANTYNE, JAMES ROBERT:

Elements of Hindi and Braj Bhakha Grammar. Compiled for the use of the East-India College at Haileybury. London, J. L. Cox and Sons, 1839.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 38, (1) and one engraved plate. Original cloth, spine chipped, front hinge split, printed title label on upper cover. Label (Benjamin Duprat) on front paste down. First edition of a rare work. Braj Bhakh (or Braj Bhasha) language is a Western Hindi language. It was one of the two predominant literary languages of North-Central India before the switch to literary Hindustani in the 19th century. A great deal of the Hindi literature was developed in the Braj in the medieval period, and much devotional poetry is in this language. Ballantyne, Scottish-born orientalist who was superintendent of the Sanskrit College in Benares (Varanasi) 1845-61. He published several grammars of different Indian languages. Vater p. 165.

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Book number: 121136

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BENFEY, THEODOR:

Handbuch der Sanskritsprache. Zum Gebrauch Vorlesungen und zum Selbstudium. 1-2:I-II. Three parts in two volumes. Leipzig 1852-54.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xii, 450; vi, (2), 7-330 with text in Sanskrit; pp. (iv), 374. With 7 large folding plates. Contemporary half calf, spines with four raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, edges rubbed. Contains: 1. "Vollständige Grammatik der Sanskritsprache" and 2. "Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken; I. Text, Anmerkungen, Metra"; II: "Glossar". Zenker BO ii, 2799 & 3023. Thonnelier 1489.

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Book number: 13118

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, sanskrit, india, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, central asia, south asia, east India, asie central, asie centrale, zentralasien, inde,

BERGSTEDT, KARL FREDRIK (Translator):

Metriska öfversättningar från sanscrit. Dissertations i-ix in one volume. Upsala, Wickström & låstbom, 1845.

. Pp. (xx) including individual titles, xvi, 127, (1). Later marbled boards, calf spine lettered in gilt, top and bottom of spine chipped. Bookplate (Erik Österlund). Contains translations from Mahabaratha, Ramajana, Laws of Manu and Fables of Hitopadesa. Marklin 13-14.

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Book number: 34075

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, sanscrit, india, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, central asia, south asia, east India, asie central, asie centrale, zentralasien, inde,

BERGSTEDT, KARL FREDRIK (Translator):

Sávitrî, En episod ur den indiska epopéen Mahá-bhárata. Från sanskrit-texten metriskt öfversatt jemte inledning och anmärkningar. Dissertations. Five parts in one volume. Upsala 1844.

. Pp. (ii), x; (iv), 3-14; (ii), 15-22; (ii), 23-30; (ii), 31-44. Disbound. Some minor maginal browning. Marklin 14.

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Book number: 34082

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, indiaq, sanskrit, linguistics, languages, langue, sprache, linguistique, linguistica, sprachwissenschaft, asia, east, orient, oriente, asiatica, asie, asien, central asia, south asia, east India, asie central, asie centrale, zentralasien, inde

BERGSTEDT, KARL FREDRIK (Translator):

Sávitrî. En episod ur den indiska epopéen Mahá-bhárata. Från sanskrit-texten i svensk metriskt öfversättning jemte inledning och anmärkningar. Upsala 1844.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), x, 44. As issued in original printed wrappers, chipped around edges, spine restored. First Swedish translation of the famous Indian tale about the princess Savitri found in the ancient epics Mahabharata. Marklin 14. Zenker BO i, 3214.

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Book number: 100532

Catalogue: South Asia

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

BERNADOTTE, CARL & EUGEN & OSCAR (Princes of Sweden):

[PACIFIC & MIDDLE EAST] Våra minnen. Stockholm (colophon: Stuttgart) [1886].

. Pp. (iv), 262. With frontispiece (Princes Carl and Eugen in Arab costumes), decorated lithographed title and fifteen full page plates made from photographs protected by tissue guards. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Printed privately as a Christmas gift to the Swedish King and Queen, probably in a small edition. Provenance: A gift from H. Bukowski to Gunnar Hazelius, Swedish historian. A beautiful copy.This work titled "Our memories" contains travel accounts by the Swedish Princes from the Middle East and the Pacific, several written during Vanadis' circumnavigation (1883-5). Includes Prince Oscar's narratives of his visits to Kilauea on Hawaii, Manilla and the Himalayas; Prince Carl's accounts of Jerusalem and several places in India; Prince Eugen's accounts of the Druses and his visit to Damaskus; etc. Forbes 3863; Kroepelien 1318; Rolf Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana, 1318.

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Book number: 100815

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, circumnavigation, travel, exploration, voyage, vanadis, swedish, sweden, india, indian, hawaii, damaskus, damascus, syria, vanadis,

BESCHI, CONSTANZO GIUSEPPE:

A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, termed Shen-Tamil: to which is Added an Introduction to Tamil Poetry. Translated from the original Latin, by Benjamin Guy Babington. Madras, The College Press, 1822.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), xii, 117 + 5 content. Wide margins. Contemporary calf, blind-stamped border on the covers, spine gilt with red title label, rubbed, hinges starting. Library markings on front endpapers. (C.M.S.) Some leaves with small marginal wormholes (no text loss). Occasionally some light staining. Rare first printed edition, translated into English from the original Latin completed in manuscript form about 100 years earlier but not printed at that time. Beschi was born in Italy in 1680 but spent most of his life as a Jesuit missionary in India. He was the founder of the Madura mission and became one of the earliest and most distinguished pioneers in the field of Tamil studies. He composed several linguistic works but is probably best known as a Tamil poet. He produced a grammar of Low Tamil (the common dialect) in Latin which was printed at Tranquebar in 1728. The present grammar of Shen-Tamil (the high dialect) was composed the following year, but for an unknown reason was never printed. This English version, from the original Latin, is based on a compilation of texts, transcriptions and more. It remains a pioneering study of an old and complex language by a sensitive and meticulous scholar and a talented translator. The translator Benjamin Guy Babington was an English physician and Oriental scholar who spent about ten years in India. Vater p. 240.

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Book number: 120380

Catalogue: South Asia

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

BIRDWOOD, GEORGE:

Indiens konstslöjd. En kortfattad skildring. På svenska utgifven af Hans Hildebrand. Stockholm, Central-Tryckeriet, 1882.

. Pp. (iv), 130. With one double page map and 55 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers, a few stains on upper cover. A Swedish edition partly based on Birdwood's larger work "The Industral Arts of India". This work was first published in German in connection with an Indian exhibition at Berlin in 1881. Afterwards the Indian artefacts were sent to Stockholm where they were exhibited.

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Book number: 99429

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, artefacts,

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