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

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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.

. 4to. 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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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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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

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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

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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

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BOECK, KURT:

Indische Gletscherfahrten. Reisen und erlebnisse im Himalaja. Stuttgart & Lpz 1900.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xii, 470, adv. (2). With 2 folding maps, 4 panoramic views and 50 plates. Further more textual ills. Contemporary half Japon vellum on boards with title-label on spine, slightly rubbed, one corner knocked. First edition of Dr. Boeck's travels in Sikkim and Nanda Devi. Aschoff 220. Yakushi (1984) B197.

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Book number: 20053

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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

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BOERO, GIUSEPPE:

Vita del Beato Giovanni de Britto martire della Compagina di Gesú. Two parts in one volume. Roma, 1853.

. 4to. Pp. 135. Some queries loose or starting. With engraved frontispiece. Contemporary marbled boards, calf spine printed in gilt, corners and foot of spine chipped. First edition of this biographical work of Jo‹o de Brito, a Portugese Jesuit missionary and martyr. It's a comprehensive study of Brito's missionary life including interesting information of India and it's people at the time.Brito travelled to the mission of Madurai (Tamil Nadu) in 1673 and except for a period of three years he stayed in Southern India until he was executed there in 1693. He learned the native languages and successfully taught the Catholic faith in concepts that would make sense to the inhabitants. However, when he converted a Marava prince who had many wives a serious problem arose. The prince was forced to give up all his wifes but one which he didn't accept and this led to a general persecution of Christians and Brito was executed. He was beatified by Pope Pius IX on August 21, 1853 and canonized by Pope Pius XII on June 22, 1947. De Backer-Sommervogel i, 1576, no.25.

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Book number: 100767

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BONVALOT, GABRIEL:

De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1892.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), 507. Three pages at end with contents missing. With one large folding map and 108 illustrations (of which some full page) after photographs taken by Prince Henri d'Orleans. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, e.g. Bookplate. A narrative of a journey taken from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 1889-90. Bonvalot travelled together with Prince d'Orleans. Cordier BI 2436. Yakushi (1984) B220.

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Book number: 777045

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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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BRIGEL, J.:

A Grammar of the Tulu Language. Mangalore, Published by C. Stolz, Basel Mission Book & Tract Depository, 1872.

. Pp. (iv), 139, (5). With text in English and Kanarese characters. Title page laid-down and preface leaf strengthened along edges. Modern cloth. With library stamps (Harvard University). First edition of the first separate grammar of the Tulu language to be published. Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken in the area known as "Tulu Nada" situated in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala. The Basel Mission was established in 1834. The first works printed by the Mission Press were mainly religious, initially lithographically and subsequently typographically.

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Book number: 120931

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CAMPBELL, DONALD:

Land-resa till Indien + FRA PAOLINOS SAN BARTOLOMEO: Resor i Indien. Stockholm, Johan Pfeiffer, 1801.

. Pp. (viii), 364, index (17). Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled in gilt and with title label, rubbed. A few pages with some minor staining. Swedish abridgments of two wellknown travel accounts of India, translated from German editions by Samuel Ödmann.

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Book number: 28009

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CARTER, CHARLES HENRY:

An English and Singhalese Lesson Book on Ollendorff's System; Designed to teach Singhalese through the medium of the English language. Colombo (ca 1880).

. Pp. 167, interleaved copy. First part of the book filled with scholarly annotations on the blank leaves. Contemporary half calf, worn, hinges cracked. Ownership inscription on title page: "Major A. Ewing Colombo". Library stamps. Bookplate. Rare, short useful manual in Sinhalese, comprising 84 lessons followed by an index. It was first published in 1860 by William Skeene at the Government Press. Carter (1828-1914) served as a Baptist missionary in Ceylon for many years. He published an important English-Sinhalese dictionary in 1891.

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Book number: 120929

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CAUNTER, REV. JOHN HOBART / DANIELL, WILLIAM (Ill.):

The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India. London, Samuel Bentley, 1836.

. Pp. (viii), 297, (1), adv. (6). With 22 steel engravings after drawings by William Daniell, 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., expertly rebacked.Deals with a journey visiting Madras, Tanjore, Madurai, Trichengur, Seringapatam, kingdom of Coorg Rajah, Cochin, Angria Bank, Muscat in Oman and finally Bombay and its vicinity. The beautiful plates depict views, sacred and famous buildings and sites, exotic animals including wild beasts fights and tiger hunt, etc. William Daniell travelled in India with his uncle Thomas Daniell for eight years and they produced a number of highly desirable aquatint illustrated works of the country including the renowned "Oriental Scenery" (1794). This volume is included in a series of seven volumes issued between 1834 and 1840.

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Book number: 120359

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