EICHHOFF, FRÉDÉRIC GUSTAVE:

Parallèle des langues de l'Europe et de l'Inde, ou étude des principales langues romanes, germaniques, slavonnes et celtiques comparées entre elles et à la langue sanscrite, avec un essai de transcription générale. Paris, a l'Imprimerie Royale, 1836.

. Small folio. Pp. (iv), viii, 501. Uncut copy. Somewhat later calf, spine gilt with four raised bands and title printed in gilt, original wrappers bound in (front cover with minor marginal loss). Some light staining throughout. First edition of an early work devoted to comparative linguistics. The Indo-European comparative studies as an academic discipline started in the early 1830's by Franz Bopp who published several works on the subject. Vater p.180.

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Book number: 28136

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, language, langue, linguistic, sprachwissenschaft, european, europe, india, indian

KALIDASA / EKELUND (Translator):

Sakontala; ett indiskt dramatiskt poem. Översatt från sanscrit på engelska af W. Jones och, efter denna samt G. Forsters tyska tolkning, på svenska af J. Ekelund. Stockholm, Zacharias Haeggström, 1821.

. Pp. (ii), xlviii, 171, (1). Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, spine and corners chipped, stained. Old ownership signature. First Swedish edition of Sakuntala, the famous romantic poem by the anicent Indian writer Kalidasa. It was first introduced to Europe in 1789 when it was translated into English by W. Jones. Klemming p. 220.

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Book number: 99664

Catalogue: South Asia

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

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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Book number: 100513

Catalogue: South Asia

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

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

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, himalayas, lahoul, india, indian, inde, trekking, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, kulu, simla,

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

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

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asien, asiatic, traevl, exploration, mission, missionary, hindo, hindu, machilipatnam

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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Book number: 34004

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, Ladakhi, tibet, tibetan, thibet, india, inde. indian, language, langue, linguistic, ladak, ladakhi, grammar, bhoti, bodhi

FRANKLIN, WILLIAM:

Resa ifrån Bengalen til Persien åren 1786 och 1787 samt en korrt historia om Persien sedan år 1747. Götheborg, Samuel Norberg, 1798.

. Pp. iv, 172. Uncut copy in modern half calf, spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate. A scarce Swedish edition translated from the German version edited by J.R. Forster. William Franklin (1763-1839) was an English captain in the service of the East India company. He travelled to Persia in 1786 and stayed for eight months at Shiraz as an inmate of a Persian family. Cf Diba p. 150 (First English edition 1790). Cf Schwab no.193.

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Book number: 100717

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, bengal, india, indian, persia, persien, persian, bengalen, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, travel, exploration,

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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Book number: 34116

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, hindustani, urdu, india, inde, indian, language, langue, linguistic, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, grammar,

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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Book number: 14220

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatic, asiatica, india, central asia, east india, south asia, indien

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

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, bengal, bengalen, sechelles islands, sechelles, arabia, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, arabic

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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Book number: 100347

Catalogue: South Asia

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

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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Book number: 120926

Catalogue: South Asia

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

GRILL ABRAHAMSSON, JOHAN (JEAN) ABRAHAM:

Inträdes-tal, om orsakerna, hvarföre Chinas natural-historia är så litet bekant; hållet för Kongl. Vetenskaps Academien, den 29 september 1773. Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1773.

. Pp. 14. Uncut and unopened copy with paper spine strip. A talk about the natural history of China (and the reason for its ignorance) given at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1773. Grill (1736-92) was a Swedish merchant and director of the Swedish East India Company. He resided for about seven years in Canton as resident supercargo in the 1760's. In this speech he mentions the natural history collections he brought from China for Carl von Linné. Cordier BS 3258-9. Löwendahl 570.

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Book number: 25037

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, grill, natural history,

GRILL ABRAHAMSSON, JEAN ABRAHAM:

Tal, om silfvers årliga förande til China, huruvida det är för Europa nyttigt eller skadeligt. Stockholm, L. Salvius, 1774.

. Pp. 30. Copy without engraved vignette on title. Uncut and unopened copy with paper spine strip. An oration about export of silver to China given at a meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1774. Grill (1736-92) was a Swedish merchant and director of the Swedish East India Company. He resided for about seven years in Canton as resident supercargo in the 1760's. Löwendahl 578. 

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Book number: 111115

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, silver, travel, exploration