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

Memorie istoriche presentate al sommo pontefice Benedetto xiv, intoro alle missioni dell'Indie Orientale. Opera del R. Norberto Cappucino Lorenese. Three volumes in two. Lucca, Salvatore & Gian-Domenico Marescandoli, 1744.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), xix, xxvi, (1), 592; 321, (1); (ii), 224. With two titles in red and black (vols i and iii). Contemporary vellum, rubbed and miscoloured, with a few small wormholes. A few small wormholes running through the first and last leaves, only affecting the margins. Occasionally some minor browning. First Italian edition, translated from the original French, anonymously published at Avignon in the same year.Père Norbert (1697-1770), which is a pseudonym for Abbé Platel, was an adventurer and became a Capuchin in 1716. This is a very detailed account of the Jesuit mission at Malabar between 1660 and 1744. It is criticising the conduct and actions of the Jesuit throughout. Further more includes interesting information about the native Indians, their customs etc. Cf Chadenat 5259 (French ed. Lucca 1744). Cordier BS 923. Cf Sabin 55451. Streit vi, 448.

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PAULINUS A S. BARTHOLOMAEO, [WERDIN, JOHANN PHILIP]:

[MALAYALAM] Centum Adagia Malabarica, cum textu originali et versione latina nunc primum in lucem edita. Rome, Antonium Fulgonium, 1791.

. 4to. Pp. 12. With woodcut vignette on title. Parallel text of Malayalam and Latin. Attractive contemporary patterned wrappers. First edition of this Latin translation of Malayalam proverbs. Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in Kerala, Lakshadweep Islands and Pondicherry in India. Johann Philipp Werdin was an Austrian Carmelite missionary who spent fourteen years in India. He mastered many languages and was one of the first to discover the similarity between Sanskrit and Indo-European languages. Rare.

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Book number: 99750

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PEARSON, JOHN DORKING:

A Grammar of the English Language; for the Use of Natives in Bengal. (Im reji bh sh ra by karan a). Calcutta, Printed for the Calcutta School-Book Society, at the School-Press, Dhurumtula, 1820.

. Pp. vi, 103, (1). With one engraved plate. Modern half calf, bound with original printed green wrappers. Some staining to a few leaves but overall a very good copy. First edition. One of the earliest books explicitly intended for the inhabitants of Bengal wishing to learn English, preceded by John Miller's "The tutor, or a new English & Bengalee work, well adapted to teach the natives English" (Calcutta 1797). It is one of the first books commissioned by the Calcutta School Book Society, specifically for use in schools. Pearson was in charge of East India Company's schools in Bengal between 1818 and 1823. Scarce.

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CONCORDIA PIA

CONCORDIA PIA ... in Tamil (Meyi visu varasa). Madras 1856.

. Pp. 94. Cloth, worn. Old marginal annotations. Text in Tamil script. Printed in the 150th year of the Tranquebar mission at the American Mission Press.

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Book number: 15113

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

A handbook of the ordinary dialect of the Tamil language. Part v. A Tamil prose reader adapted to the handbook. Seventh edition. Oxford, Claredon press, 1906.

. Pp. viii, 124. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Copy of Hugo Odeberg with his private stamp on title page. Contains: 1. Classical prose; 2. Business Tamil; 3. Easy stories; 4. Friendship's gain (for studies for the higher proficiency test); 5. "Cutlery Tamil" to those studying for the Indian Civil Service and; 6. Petitions and official correspondence. First edition was published in 1859.

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Book number: 34140

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

A handbook of the ordinary dialect of the Tamil language. Seventh edition. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1911.

. Pp. (iv), 24. With 3 folding tables. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, somewhat rubbed. Copy of Hugo Odeberg. Some underlinings. Originally published in 1835 and it has been reprinted many times. Contains 101 lessons. Pope was university teacher of Tamil and Telugu in Oxford. "The handbook is the textbook prescribed for the young civilians appointed to Madras, he has peculiarly favourable opportunities of testing its usefulness and asceartaining its deficiencies".

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Book number: 34142

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

A handbook of the ordinary dialect of the Tamil language. Part iii. A compendious Tamil - English Dictionary. Seventh edition. Oxford, Claredon Press, 1905.

. Pp. (ii), 98. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Copy of Hugo Odeberg.

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

[Tamil title] The Naladiyar or Four Hundred Quatranis in Tamil. With Introduction, Translation, and Notes Critical; Philological and Explanatory to which is added a Concordance and Lexicon with Authorities from the Oldest Tamil Writers. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1893.

. Pp. l, (ii), 440. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Copy of Hugo Odeberg (Swedish orientalist). First edition of this popular Tamil Classic. It was published to help westerners to gain knowledge of classical Tamil.

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RAGINI, SRI:

Nritanjali an Introduction to Hindu Dancing. New York, Hari G. Govil, 1928.

. Pp. 84. With frontispiece portrait and ten photographic illustrations. Original printed paper covers. Small book dealer label on front pastedown. First edition, limited to 950 copies. A lovely copy.

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Book number: 121483

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RASK, RASMUS KRISTIAN:

Singalesisk skriftlaere. Kolombo 1821 (1822).

. Pp. 16. As issued, uncut. The title page printed several years later in Copenhagen not present here (but supplied in facsimile). With important provenance: Fredrik Peter Jacob Dahl, Danish linguist. With inscription on first page reading that F.P.J. Dahl received this copy from Rask August 11, 1823. First and only edition of this Sinhalese grammar by the famous Danish linguist Rasmus Rask. In this work Rask compares Sinhalese with Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil, Telugi and other Asian languages. He deals with the phonetics, pronunciation, accentuation and numerals. In the introduction Rask explains that very little was known about the Sinhalese language up to this date and therefore Klaproth did not include anything about it in his "Asia Polyglotta" published a few years earlier. Rask travelled to India to study the relationship between the European and Asian languages, and he visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for about nine months in 1821/22. We believe the text was printed at Colombo in 1821 or 1822 but that the title page was not printed until 1828 or later in Copenhagen because the printed text on verso of the title is dated 1828. See Rhodes: "The Spread of Printing" Eastern Hemisphere, India, Burma, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand (1969) p. 76. Vater p. 73. Zenker ii 3019.

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Book number: 121064

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RIJNHART, SUSIE CARSON:

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple. Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior. Fifth edition. Foreign Christian Missionary Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, (1905?).

. Pp. (viii), 406. With one folding map and thirteen plates (mainly photographs). Publisher's cloth stamped in black, lightly darkened. Old ownership signature.Susan Carson, a Canadian doctor married a Dutch missionary Petrus Rijnhart who had joined the China Inland Mission in 1890. In 1898 Susie, Petrus and their little baby boy started a journey towards the forbidden city of Lhasa. But they never reached it. During the journey Rijnhart's child had died, Petrus mysterously disappeared and Susan had to make a two-month hazardous journey back to China by herself. First edition was issued in 1901. Robinson p.170. Yakushi (1984) R117a.

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ANURUDDHA-SATAKA

[SINHALESE]. [An ancient Sanskrit poem in 101 stanzas, in praise of the Buddha, with an anonymous interverbal translation into Sinhalese]. Edited by A. da Silva Devarakkhita Batuvantudave. Colombo, N.S. Cooray, 1879.

. Pp. 39. Text in Sinhalese. Occasionally some light browning. Third edition, first Colombo 1866. Contemporary full calf, blind-pressed border on covers, rubbed, spine cracked with loss. Bookbinder label: E.A. Philip, Messenger Street no. 66. BOUND WITH: APPUHAMI, T. GUNASEKARA & APPUHAMI, T. KURE: [....] Indraguruluwa [About astrology]. No place, but probably Colombo 1880. Pp. (iv), 30. Text in Sinhalese, with illustrations. Some staining to the title. The Indragurulu method is a very subtle method of astrology.

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Book number: 120531

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SCHOTT, WILHELM:

Über die Sprache des volkes R—ng oder Leptscha in Sikkim. Berlin, Verlag der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1882.

. 4to. Pp. 15, (1). Original printed wrappers. ("Aus den Abhandlungen der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Belin 1881"). Lepcha is a Tibetan-Burman language spoken in Sikkim, West Bengal and Kalimpong, and also in Nepal and Bhutan.

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Book number: 99518

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SCHÖTTGEN (SCHOETTGENIUS), JOHAN CHRISTIAN / [WALTHER, CHRISTOPH THEODOSII]:

Vita et agon viri admodum reverendi Christophori Theodosii Waltheri, per annos XV. missionarii danici apud Trangambariensis optime meriti. Halle, litteris et impensis Orphanotrophei, 1742.

. 4to. Pp. 36 printed on thick paper. Partly with small marginal stain. Old paper wrappers, some discolouration, dog eared. A rare work about a German missionary and linguist. Christoph Walther (1699-1741) served in Danish India for many years at the beginning of the 18th century. He compiled several works about the mission, and biblical and linguistic works on Tamil.

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Book number: 121103

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SEBASTIANI, GIUSEPPE DE SANTA MARIA:

Seconda speditione all' Indie Orientali. Roma, nella stamperia di Filippo M. Mancini, 1672.

. 4to. Pp. (xxiv), 261, (1). With one nice large folding engraved map "Serra de Malavari". Contemporary full vellum, top of spine repaired, title in manuscript on spine. Old ownership signature on title page. First edition of Sebastiani's account of his second voyage to India between 1660 and 1665. Sebastiani, Bishop of Hierapolis and Apostolic Commissary of Serra, was sent on missions to India to try to reunite the warring factions in Malabar. The journey passed through Aleppo, Ninive, Basra and Goa before reaching Cochin (Kochi). During this time he witnessed the fall of Cochin in 1661 and Cranganore (Kodungallur) in 1663 to the Dutch. Lach & Van Kley, 3:1, p. 383.

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Book number: 29139

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