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,

BENSON, ROBERT:

Sketches of Corsica; or, a Journal Written During a Visit to that Island, in 1823. With an Outline of its History, and Specimens of the Language and Poetry of the People. London 1825.

. Pp. (vi), 195, (5). Without half-title. With wood engraved vignette on title, four sepia engraved plates and one hand-coloured aquatint. Some light offsetting from the plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt, upper joint weak, lightly rubbed, joints expertly restored. Faint traces of removed bookplate on front paste down. First edition. Robert Benson, a British judge and historian who accompanied a group of commissioners to Corsica with the aim to carry into effect the bequests of the Corsican patriot General Pasquale Paoli (1725-1807) who spent his last years in exile in Britain. Benson's account based on his own experiences describers the country and its culture, political history and language including specimens of Corsican poetry. Abbey Travel 76. Lowndes i, p.156.

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Book number: 100112

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, france, french, frankrike, europe, european, corsica, travel, explorationhttp://copac.jisc.ac.uk/

BENTLEY, WILLIAM HOLMAN:

Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, As spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa. Compiled and Prepared for the Baptist Mission on the Kongo River, West Africa. London, the Baptist Missionary Society & Trübner & Co., 1887.

. Pp. xxiv, 718. With one folding table of concords. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, stained and with some wear. Light foxing to first few leaves otherwise fine internally. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. AND: APPENDIX. London 1895. Pp. iii-vii, 721-944, (1), 945-1052. Original cloth gilt, faded and worn. Title page cut off at the bottom, no text loss. Without half title (?). First edition.The first comprehensive dictionary and grammar of the Kongo language, compiled under the auspices of Leopold II of Belgium. The Reverend William Bentley, missionary of the English Baptist Society resided for five years in the region of West Africa where the Kongo language is spoken. Zaunmüller 227 (later edition).

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Book number: 121004

Catalogue: Africa

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BERGMANN, BENJAMIN:

Voyage chez les Kalmuks. Traduit de l'allemand par M. Moris. Chatillon sur Seine, C. Cornillac, 1825.

. Pp. xxviii, 361+ 11 lvs with Mongolian text. One lithographed plate. Contemporary half calf, nicely rebacked with orginal spine preserved, somewhat rubbed. Marbled paper covered boards with matching end papers and edges. St.o.t. An abridged French edition. The translation contains the independant account of Bergmann's stay with the nomad people in the Russian province of Astrakhan. Includes also "Essai sur la suite des Kalmucs des bord du Volga", mostly based on the narrative of de Weseloff, a former prisoner of the Kalmucks, but also based on works by Pallas and Rytschkov. First few leaves with minor browning. Cf Aschoff 192. Chadenat 5323.

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Book number: 17076

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, kalmucks, mongolian, mongolia, russia, russian, astrakan, travel, voyages, asia, asien, asie, exploration, language, langue, linguistic

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

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

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BIELENSTEIN, AUGUST JOHANN GOTTFRIED:

Lettische grammatik. Mitau 1863.

. Pp. xxii, 432, (1). Modern paper covered boards, title label on spine. Numerous old annotations in pencil throughout the text. Included in "Die lettische Sprache" but complete in itself.

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Book number: 31038

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, letland, europe, euopean, language, langue, linguistic,

BLED DE BRAINE, J.F.:

Cours synthétique, analytique et practique de langue arabe, arrangé a l'usage des colléges et des écoles, ou les dialectes vulgaires africains d'Alger, de Maroc, de Tunis et d'Egypte, enseignés sans maitre. Ouvrage divisé en douze lecons. Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1846.

. Pp. xxii, 536. Original cloth, spine damaged and back cover loose. First edition. Zenker BO ii, 194.

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Book number: 29091

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, , linguistics, languages, asia, asien, asie, asiatica, orient, near east, near india, middle east, arabic, arab, arabia, egypt, algeria, maroc, morocco, tunisia, first edition, egypte, inde, moyen orient, linguistique, language, langue, sprache

[DEAF-MUTE]. BLOMKVIST, JEHUBBA PETRUS:

Om läroanstalter för döfstumma med särskildt hänseende till tal- och språkundervisningen. Stockholm, Ivar Haeggströms Boktryckeri, 1875.

. Pp. (viii), 244. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, rubbed. Some minor foxing. A Swedish work on deaf-mute education in Europe comprising an historical background and detailed descriptions of the different educational institutions in Preussen, Weissenfels, Osnabrück, Riehen and Brühl respectively. First edition. The author started up a school for deaf-mutes in Örebro in 1875. It was the first school in Sweden to follow the German method by basing the education on sounds and tones.

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Book number: 38041

Catalogue: Language

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BOCTHOR, ELLIOUS / CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, ARMAND PIERRE:

Dictionnaire francais-arabe. Revue et augmenté par A. Caussin de Perceval. Troisième édition. Paris, Didot Frères, 1864.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), iv, 867. Slightly later half calf, spine with five raised bands and gilt monogram, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, upper edges gilt. Copy of Arconti-Visconti, wellknown Italian orientalist and traveller in the 19th century. Binding somewhat rubbed. Some light staining at beginning and end. The author, an Egyptian copt, became professor of Arabic at the Royal Library in Paris. Gay 3384. Zenker BOi, 59. (first edition 1828).

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Book number: 34115

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BOCTHOR, ELLIOUS / CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, ARMAND PIERRE:

Dictionnaire français-arabe. Revue et augmenté par A. Caussin de Perceval. Two volumes in one. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1828-29.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 461, (1); (iv), 435. Text browned throughout, partly some marginal staining. Some scribbling to the front end-paper. Numerous marginal annotations in French and Arabic by a scholar. Contemporary marbled boards, new calf spine with old title label (worn) preserved. Scarce first edition of the first proper French- Arabic (Vulgar) dictionary compiled by two renowned Orientalists. Ellious Bocthor was an Egyptian Copt who left Egypt with the French army at the end of the Napoleon Bonaparte expedition (1798-1801) and became professor of Vulgar Arabic at the Royal Library in Paris. Bocthor died in 1821 at the young age of thirty-seven before the dictionary was finalised. It was completed by Caussin de Perceval, Bocthor's successor at the School of Modern Oriental Languages. Cf. Gay 3384 (third edition 1864). Bibl. de Silvestre de Sacy, no. 2859. Vater p. 457. Zenker BO i, 59.

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Book number: 38055

Catalogue: Near East

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BOEHTLINGK (von BÖHTLINGK), OTTO:

Ein erster Versuch ueber den Accent im Sanskrit. St. Petersburg, Der Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1845.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 114. Contemporary boards, extremities worn. Old dedication on front endpaper. The author examines for the first time the three accents of Sanskrit. ("Mémoires de l'Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. Petersburg, Sciences politiques etc., vi série, t. vii"). Vater p. 333.

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Book number: 25018

Catalogue: South Asia

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BOPP, FRANZ: [

Sanskrit title]. Ardschuna's Reise zu Indra's Himmel, nebst anderen Episoden des Maha-Bharata; in der Ursprache zum erstenmal herausgegeben, metrisch übersetzt, und mit kritischen Anmerkungen versehen. Berlin, Druckerei der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1824.

. 4to. Pp. xxviii, (80), (ii), 122. Contemporary boards, r.e., worn. Old inscription on front endpaper. Partly some minor browning. First edition. Contains the original Sanskrit text of five episodes from the Maha-Bharata: Ardshuna's Himmelsreise; Hidminba's Tod; Des Brahmanen Wehklage; Sundas und Upasundas; Nalas und Damjanti, complemented with a German translation and comments. Zenker BO ii, 3196.

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Book number: 34090

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BOPP, FRANZ / WINDISCHMANN, K.J. (Ed.):

Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache. Nebst Episoden des Ramajan und Mahabharat in genauen metrischen Uebersetzungen aus dem Originaltexte und einigen Abschnitten aus den Veda's. Frankfurt am Main, in der Andräischen Buchhandlung, 1816.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (ii), xxxxvi, 312. Includes a long introduction by the editor. Contemporary paper-covered boards, flat spine ruled in gilt and with title label, r.e., rubbed. Old ownership signature on front paste down. Scarce first edition of this pioneering work to trace the common origin of the grammatical forms of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and German. Concentrating on a historical analysis of the verb, he furnished the first trustworthy materials for a history of the languages compared. "He thereby established the science of comparative linguistics [...] Bopp's importance lies in the fact that he was no mere grammarian but considered philology to be an essential part of the history of civilization: out of their vocabulary he drew an accurate picture of the material and intellectual life of the earliest Indo-European people" (PMM). Zenker ii, 2810. Printing and the Mind of Man 275.

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Book number: 100946

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, sanskrit, german, latin, persian, indian, inde, language. langue, linguistic, philology, asie, asien, asiatic, exploration,