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

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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

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LE MESURIER, CECIL JOHN REGINALD & PA'NABOKKE, TIKIRI BANDARA Snr.:

N’ti-Nighanduva; or, The Vocabulary of Law. As it existed in the last days of the Kandyan kingdom. Colombo, William Henry Herbert, 1880.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxxix, 120. Interleaved copy. With some annotations. Contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine with red title label and initials F.A.H. in gilt at foot of spine. The N’ti-Nighanduva is a Sinhalese law book which mainly deals with marriage and inheritance laws. The kingdom of Kandy was an independent monarchy in the central portion of the island Ceylon, absorbed into the British empire in 1815. The Sinhalese writer Pa'nabokke Banda, President of Dumbara, obtained a copy of the original English manuscript, had it transcribed and made a rough translation. In 1876 Le Mesurier seized the ms, retranslated it and recast it into its present form. Both the transcription and the translation are found in this work. Rare. Provenance: Frederic Austin Hayley with his bookplate on front pastedown. Author of "A treatise of the laws and customs of the Sinhalese" Colombo 1923.

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Book number: 100858

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MOLESWORTH, CAPTAIN JAMES THOMAS A.:

Dictionary Murat,hee & English, Compiled for the Government of Bombay, ... Assisted by Lieutenants Thomas and George Candy. Bombay, June, 1831.

. Thick 4to. Pp. xviii, (ii), 1162, errata (3). Two leaves (pp 727/8 and 743/44) with tear repairs. Later 19th century tan half calf over cloth boards, spine with five raised bands and red title label, speckled edges. Corners and joints expertly repaired. With gilt coat of arms of the University Club of Edinburgh on upper cover, its bookplate on front paste down and a blindstamp to the verso of title. Rare first edition, a second was published in 1857, of this comprehensive dictionary comprising some 40 000 words.James Thomas Molesworth (1795-1871) was a military officer in the service of the British East India Company and one of the most prominent lexicographers of the Marathi language. In 1825, he was stationed in Bombay and began work on a Marathi - English dictionary with the help of twin brothers George and Thomas Candy (serving as translators at the British East India Company in India) and a team of native Marathi-speaking Brahmins. Vater p. 237. Zaunmüller 269 (2nd ed.).

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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NORBERG, MATTHIAS / GESTRICH, JONAS SAMUEL (Resp.):

Quid indiani de diluvio sentiant. Lund, Berlingianis, 1800.

. 4to. p. 12. Disbound. A dissertation about the great flood among the Indians. Marklin 96.

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Book number: 120425

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PARISOT, PIERRE CUREL [or PéRE NORBERT and later as ABBÉ PLATEL]:

Memoires utiles et necessaires, tristes et consolans, sur les missions des Indes Orientales, &c. Memoriali utili e necessariiaflittui e consonlanti, rispetto alle missione delle Indie orientali, &c. Luques (but Avignon?), de l'imprimerie d'Antoine Rossi, 1742.

. Pp. xxxiv, 377, (1). With parallel text in French and Italian. Contemporary vellum, rubbed, slight loss to corner of upper cover. Wormholes running through margin. Rare first edition of this serious critique of the Jesuits in India by Père Norbert, Capuchin missionary in Pondichery. The work explains the priority of the Capuchin mission in the area and criticises the conduct and actions of the Jesuits claiming that they infringed on Capuchin territory, jurisdiction etc. Two years later he published another better known work "Mémoires historiques sur les missions des Indes". Both his works caused scandals.

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Book number: 99397

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PARISOT, PIERRE CUREL [or PéRE NORBERT and later ABBÉ PLATEL]:

Memoires utiles et necessaires, tristes et consolans, sur les missions des Indes Orientales, &c. Memoriali utili e necessariiaflittui e consonlanti, rispetto alle missione delle Indie orientali, &c. Luques (but Avignon?), de l'imprimerie d'Antoine Rossi, 1742.

. Pp. xxxiv, 377, (1). With parallel text in French and Italian. Contemporary calf, spine with five raised bands richly gilt, slightly rubbed. Old inscription on title. First edition of this serious critique of the Jesuits in India by Père Norbert, a Capuchin missionary who served in Pondichery. The work explains the priority of the Capuchin mission in the area and criticises the conduct and actions of the Jesuits claiming that they infringed on Capuchin territory, jurisdiction etc. Two years later Parisot published a better known work titled "Mémoires historiques sur les missions des Indes". Both his works caused scandals.

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Book number: 99463

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PARISOT, PIERRE CUREL [or PéRE NORBERT and later as ABBE PLATEL]:

Memoires historiques presentes au souverain pontife Benoit XIV. Sur les missions des Indes Orientales. Four volumes. Luques (probably Avignon) 1745.

. Pp. (xxiv), 419; (ii), 510; (ii), 460, (7); (ii), 342. Contemporary red morocco, gilt floral dentelles on covers, spines decorated in gilt, g.e., worn, hinges cracked, spine ends chipped. Second French edition (first 1744) of this critical account of the Jesuit mission in India which caused a scandal. Père Norbert (1697-1769), which is a pseydonym for Abbé Platel, became a Capuchin in 1716. He went to Pondicherry as Attorney General of Foreign Missions in 1736. This work is a very detailed account of the Jesuit mission at Malabar between 1660 and 1744. It is criticizing the conduct and actions of the Jesuit throughout. Includes much information about the Indians, their customs etc. "Describes the proceeedings of the Jesuits in the Malabar Mission, where they authorized the most blasphemous mixture of the Christian and Pagan rites" (Sabin). Cf Chadenat 5259 (French ed. 1744). Cordier BS 923. Quérard vi, 446. Cf Sabin 55451. Streit vi, 448.

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Book number: 99773

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