KRISHNA, ISWARA / COLEBROOK, HENRY THOMAS etc. (Transl.):

Sânkhya Kârikâ or Memorial Verses of the Sânkhya Philosophy, by Iswara Krishna; Translated from the Sanscrit by H.T. Colebrooke, esq. Also the Bhashya or Commentary of Gaurapada, Translated, and Illustrated by an Original Comment, by H.H. Wilson. Oxford, for the Oriental Translation Fund Committee, 1837.

. 4to. Pp. xiv, 194 + 28 lvs with Sanskrit text + pp. ( 6). Uncut copy in modern cloth. The first publication in Sanskrit printed at the press of the University of Oxford. Horace Hayman Wilson was professor of Sanskrit and member of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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Book number: 14033

Catalogue: South Asia

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

LIND AF HAGEBY, AXEL REINHOLD FERDINAND LUDVIG:

Minnen från ett tre-årigt vistande i Engelsk Örlogstjenst 1857-59. 2 parts in 1 volume. Stockholm, A. Bonnier, 1860.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (xii), 214, (ii), 215 - 468 (2). With one engraved front portrait, 26 plates and 4 folding plans and maps. The attractive plates consist of 10 coloured steelengravings after original Hindu drawings and 16 tinted lithographs depicting military subjects and Hindu ceremonies. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed. Bookplate. First edition. A narrative of travels in Asia by a Swedish naval officer serving the British naval service for three years (1857-59). Some places visited were the Cap, Singapore, Hong Kong, Calcutta and Ceylon.

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Book number: 99402

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, travels, voyages, explaration, explore, miltary, navy, naval, hindu, ceremonies, cap, singapore, hong kong, hongkong, calcutta, india, ceylon, sri lanka, south africa

MAGISTRIS, GIANCINTO DE / [DE THOU BINDING]:

Relatione della Christianità di Maduré fatta da Padri Missionarii della Compagnia di Giesú della Prouincia del Malauàr. Roma, per Angelo Bernabae del Verme, 1661.

. Pp. (xvi), 255, 254-286, 285-385, (3). With printed Jesuit emblem on title. Contemporary full calf, flat spine decorated in gilt, expertly restored. Recased. With gilt armorial stamp of Jacques-Auguste II de Thou on covers (combined with the arms of Gasparde la Chastre, his second wife). Armorial ink stamp on title page. Title waterstained, some staining to the text, and browning. One leaf (B4) restored at margin with loss of a few letters and final leaf (with index) repaired with loss of a few letters on its recto. First edition of this account of the Madura mission by an Italian Jesuit. Giancinto de Magistris (1605-68), served for several years in the province of Malabar in South India. He returned to Rome to report to the papacy on the revolt of Saint Thomas Christians of the Serra (Malabar). Carayon 994. De Backer-Sommervogel V, 313. See Olivier 216, 8 for the armorial stamp of Jacques-Auguste II de Thou (1609-77).

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Book number: 99390

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, voyage, exploration, malabar, de thou, binding,

MAILLART, ELLA K.:

Forbidden Journey. From Peking to Kashmir. London 1937.

. Pp. xvi, 312. With frontispiece (a few small tears at rear), three maps and 35 pages with multiple illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth, rubbed, endpapers toned. Old ownership signature. First English edition, later printing, published in the same year as the original French edition "Oasis interdites". Ella Maillart (1903-97) was born in Switzerland and loved to travel to find "the truth" within herself. n 1934 commissioned as a special correspondent for the French newspaper "Petit Parisien" she went to Manchuria. From there, together with the British explorer Peter Fleming, she made a tough journey home through the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts to the Hindu Kush ravines. Robinson p. 52. Yakushi (1984) M42b.

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Book number: 121281

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, central asia, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, travel, exploration, travels, explore, manchuria, india, china, chine, afghanistan, mongolia, lady traveller

MANASSEWITSCH (MANASEVICH), BORIS:

Die Kunst die arabische Sprache durch Selbstunterricht schnell und lecht zu erlernen. Theoretisch-praktische Sprachlehre für Deutsche auf grammatischer und phonetischer Grundlage. Wien, Pest, Leipzig, Hartleben's Verlag, (before 1900).

. Pp. viii, 186, (1). Publisher's cloth, rubbed. Bookplate. Third revised edition. Includes a German-Arabic dictionary and an Arabic chrestomatie with a German translation. ("Die Kunst der Polyglottie 23").

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Book number: 29085

Catalogue: Near East

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

MARTIN, FREDRIK ROBERT:

The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia India and Turkey from the 8th to the 18th century. Two volumes. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1912.

. Folio. Text volume: pp. xii, 156 with five coloured plates highlighted with gold and many illustrations in the text. Plate volume: pp. (6), 14 and 271 b/w plates. Uncut copy in original blue cloth, printed in gilt, spines faded and lightly rubbed. First edition of a significant work on oriental miniature paintings.Fredrik Martin, a renowned Swedish orientalist known for his foremost collections of oriental art that he gathered during his travels to Russia, the Caucasus and throughout the near and middle East. Between the years 1902 and 1908 he served as interpreter at the Swedish legation in Constantinople. Arne, Svenskarna och Österlandet, pp. 307-8.

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Book number: 121356

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, persia, turkey, persian, turkish, levant, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, painting, illustrated, miniatures, oriental, east, near east, middle east

MATIGNON, JEAN JACQUES:

Superstition, crime et misère en Chine (Souvenirs de biologie sociale). Lyon, Storck et Cie & Paris, Masson et Cie, 1899.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxx, (ii), 380, (1) table. With 6 chromolithographic plates and 66 illustrations in the text. Half calf on marbled boards, spine with five raised bands and title label. First edition of a collection of different articles taken from scientific papers in China. Dr. Matignon was a physician at the French legation in China for several years. This work comprises chapters about superstitions, suicide, cremation of Buddhist priests, eunuchs at the Imperial Palace in Pekin, foot binding, abortion, paederasty, beggars, surgical instruments, medicin in Mongolia, etc. ["Bibliothèque de Criminologie, xxi"]. Cf Cordier BS 1495 (second ed. 1900).

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Book number: 25058

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, far east, east india, china, kina, chine, crime, medicine

NARAYANASAWMT MOODELIAR:

[HINDU MUSIC]. Tami'l. Sungeathasurabooshany. (Sangeet Swarabhushani). Chennai (Madras), J. Vilasam Press, 1908.

. Pp.(86). Text in Tamil, printed within a border, with decoration at corners. A few illustrations. Paper is very brittle, some leaves have marginal tears. Contemporary half cloth on blue paper boards, rubbed. Preface in English by D.N.M. dated Madras, 15th August 1900.Provenance: Maud MacCarthy (1882-1967), an Irish violinist, theosophist, and authority on Indian music and published poetry under the name Tandra Devi.

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Book number: 121310

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indien, music, musical, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

MORISON, MARGARET COTTER:

A Lonely Summer in Kashmir. London, Duckworth and Co., 1904.

. Pp. x, 281. With 51 illustrations made from photographs. One gathering loose (pp. v-x, 1-2). Publisher's cloth, rubbed, extremities lightly chipped. Old inscription on front endpaper. A beautifully illustrated work of this personal account of boating, trekking and camping in Kashmir. Margaret Cotter Morison was stationed in Kashmir with her husband, a British officer. She visited Martand Sun Temple, Pahalgam hill station, Lidder Valley, Tarsar Lake, Gulmarg town, Sonamarg hill station, Wangath temple, Dal Lake, and other places. First edition. Yakushi (1984) M253.

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Book number: 99159

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, kashmir, asia, asian, asiatic, asien, travel, voyage, exploration, lady traveller

MÜLLER, MAX:

Sanskrit-Grammatik in devanágari und lateinischen Buchstaben. Auf dem Englischen übersetzt. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1868.

. Pp. xxi, (ii), 441, (1). With text in Sanskrit (Devanagari characters) and German. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with red title label, extremities lightly rubbed. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. Translated from the original English edition (London 1866) by F. Kielhorn adn G. Oppert. Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), renowned German philologist who studied Sanskrit under Bopp. He lived and worked at Oxford for many years.

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Book number: 100303

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asie, asien, sanskrit, sanscrit, devanagri, language, langue, linguistic

NATT OCH DAG, SVANTE / MELANDER, RICHARD (Ed.):

Jorden rundt under svensk örlogsflagg. Ögonblicksbilder från fregatten Vanadis verldsomsegling 1883-1885. Stockholm, A. Bonniers, 1887.

. Pp. (iv), 184. With frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Contemporary half cloth, rubbed. Stamps on front endpaper (Krigsarkivet).First edition. A narrative in the form of letters written during the Swedish circumnavigation in the frigate Vanadis in 1883-85. The voyage left Sweden in December 1883 and sailed via Lisabon, Rio de Janeiro,Tahiti, Honolulu, Marshall Islands, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, India, Colombo, and further visited different ports around the Red Sea, passed the Suez and Alexandria, via Malta, and Gibraltar before it reached Stockholm in May 1885. The illustrations are made by Ottilia Adelborg, mostly after photographs. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana 835. Kroeplein 835. Cf. Forbes, Hawaiian Nat. Bibl. 3863.

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Book number: 100799

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, india, ceylon, bangkok, manila, canton, china, japan, japanese, chinese, kina, honolulu, tahiti, south america, america, americana, pacific, far east, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, voyage, exploration, vanadis

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / FISCHERSTRÖM, MAGNUS (Resp.):

Dissertatio academica, de aqua indianis sacra. Lund, Berlingianis, 1798.

. 4to. Pp. 10. Disbound.

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Book number: 120329

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, religion, religious

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / GENBERG, CARL OL. (Resp.):

Dissertatio de trinitate Indiana. Lund, Berlingianis, 1797.

. 4to. Pp. 14. Disbound. A dissertation about Indian "Trimurti". Marklin 85.

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Book number: 120414

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, indian, inde, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, religion, religious, gods, hindu, divinity, hinduism

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / HOFVERBERG, JOH, SAM. (Resp.):

Dissertatio academicq de paradiso Indiano. Parts I-II. Lund, Berlingianis, 1797 & 1798.

. 4to. Pp. 15; 17-35. First two leaves with small marginal loss. With two engraved plates with multiple images. Marklin 86.

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Book number: 120415

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, hinduism, hindu, religion, religious, gods,

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / HELLSTENIUS, AND. JAC. (Resp.):

Dissertatio academica, de inferis indianis. Lund, Berling, 1802.

. 4to. Pp. 12. Disbound. A dissertation about the Indian hell. Marklin 99.

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Book number: 120428

Catalogue: South Asia

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