SIMPSON, WILLIAM:

The Buddhist Praying-Wheel. A Collection of Material Bearing upon the Symbolism of the Wheel and Circular Movements in Custom and Religious Ritual. London, Macmillan and Co., 1896.

. Pp. viii, 304. Including one frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Publisher's red cloth, praying wheel in gilt on front cover, spine slightly faded. First edition. The author spent some time in the Himalayas during the years 1860-61 and then passed over the boundary into Tibet and visited the Lamaseries and got interested in the so called "Praying-Wheel".

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Book number: 40018

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SKOTTSBERG, CARL & MONTELL, GÖSTA , etc.:

Hedinexpeditionens resultat. Särtryck ur Ymer 1951, h.3. Stockholm 1951.

. Pp. 161-224. With one folding coloured map and illustrations in the text. Original wrappers. Inscribed by Hedin to S.H. Prinzen Friedrich Ernst. A treatise initiated by "Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi" about the scientific results from the Sino-Swedish expedition. Offprint from Ymer.

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Book number: 100302

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SMITH, JOHN MACDONALD:

A Practical Handbook of the Khond Language. Cuttack, Printed at the Orissa Mission Press, 1876.

. Pp. iv, 130. Contemporary half calf over pebbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt, corners lightly rubbed. Contemporary inscription "from the compiler" to front end-paper. Smith's name beneath in another hand. First edition.This work comprises a grammar, dialogues, fables and a vocabulary with parallel texts in English and Khondi. It is the first of its kind to use Roman characters to express the language in writing. The Khondi (or Kui) language is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds, hunter-gatherers living mainly in Odisha (Orissa). John MacDonald Smith was a major on the Madras Staff Corps and appointed special assistant of the Governor of Fort St. George at Gamjam in Orissa.

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Book number: 120641

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SORENSEN, S.:

Om sanskrits stilling i den almindelige sprogudvikling i Indien. Köbenhavn, Bianco Lunos (F. Dreyer) 1894.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 155-318. Treats the development and postition of the Sanskrit language. Contains a French summary. Included as "D.Kgl. Danske Vidensk Selsk. Skr., 6 Raekke, historisk og filosofisk Afd. iii. 3".

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Book number: 99309

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TAGORE, RABINDRANATH:

The Gardener. Translated by the author from the original Bengali. London, Macmillian and Co., 1913.

. Pp. (viii), 150, (2) adv. With front portrait of Tagore at the age of 16. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with some minor wear. A card with Tagore's signature loosely inlaid. A few pages with small stain and some browning to the paper along edges, as usual. Tiny repair at very top of a few pages. First edition in English. Dedicated to W.B. Yeats. The Gardener, originally written in Bengali, is a book of love poems. According to the preface by Tagore: "Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literal - the originals being sometimes abridged and sometimes paraphrased." Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 as the first Asian recipient. He has been considered to be the greatest writer in modern Indian literature.

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Book number: 121163

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TAGORE, SOURINDRO MOHUN (Compiler):

Hindu Music from Various Authors. Part I. [For Private Circulation only]. Calcutta, Babu Punchanun Mekerjea, 1875.

. Pp. (xii), x, 315. With many illustrations. Contemporary red morocco, richly decorated in gilt, g.e., lightly rubbed. First edition. Comprises: "Treatise on the Music of Hindustan" by Captain N. Augustus Willard; "On the Musical Modes of the Hindus" By Sir William Jones; "On the Vina or Indian Lye" by Francis Fowke, etc. ; "The Oriental Music of Hindustan" by William C. Stafford; Music of the Hindus" by J. Nathan; Catalogue of Indian Musical Instruments" by Col. P.T. French; "Music of Ceylon" by John Davy, and more. A second part was issued in 1882 to accompany the second edition. Sourindo Mohun Tagore (1840-1914) was a famous Indian musicologist, having trained in his youth both Western and Indian classical traditions. He founded two institutions, the Bengal Music School in 1871 and the Bengal Academy of Music in 1882.

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Book number: 120933

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TAGORE, RABINDRANATH:

The Parrot's Training. (Translated by the author from its original Bengali). Calcutta and Simla, Thacker & Spink & Co., 1918.

. 4to. Pp. (12). With eight full-page plates drawn by Abanindranath Tagore (nephew of Rabindranath Tagore). Some staining. Original pictorial paper wrappers designed by Nanda Lal Bose, one of Tagore's most famous pupils. Rare first English edition. The Bengali original "Tota Kahini" was published earlier the same year in the famous journal Sabujapatra. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), renowned Bengali poet, novelist, educator and composer has been considered to be the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 as the first Asian recipient. This story is Tagore's famous satire on the futility of education through rote-learning from books - 'parrot-fashion' - then prevalent in India. He was a pioneer of creative education in India and started the school Patha Bhavana at Santiniketan in 1901 with a philosophy of learning close to the heart as opposed to the strict and repetitive learning system that was common during Tagore's childhood. The poem is a metaphorical story about a king who wants to teach a carefree parrot about traditions and customs, not understanding that they mean nothing to the parrot and that the parrot just wishes to be free. The humorous drawings are by Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of the Bengal School of Art.

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Book number: 120549

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[SANSKRIT]. TARKALANKARA, CANDRAKANTA:

[Title in Sanskrit]. Udvaha candralokah. A treatise on the marriage rites of the Hindus. According to the Dharmahastras. Sherpur 1897.

. Pp. (viii), 186. Text in Sanskrit. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, repaired and stained. Published by Sri Haracandra Caudhuri Vidyavinoda. The author was professor in Sanskrit at Calcutta.

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Book number: 28143

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TARKARATNA, RçMNçTH:

... çryâ Lahari (containing 90 verses). Calcutta, Printed and published by B.N. Nandy, at the Valmiki Press, 1896.

. Pp. (vi), 222. Text in Sanskrit, also with title and dedication in English. Contemporary half cloth, spine gilt with title label (faded), lightly rubbed. Bookplate.

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Book number: 100501

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THATCHER, PHYLLIS:

Soma and Seitha of Ceylon. Written and Illustrated by Phyllis Thatcher. London, The Zenith Press, ca 1937.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 29, (3). With charming colour illustrations. Original pictorial paper boards, with light wear along edges. Oxidation to staples. A rare children's book that tells the story of Soma and Setha in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). We assume the author was a missionary because of the content of the book.

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Book number: 121476

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TRIMES, HENRY (Compiler):

A Systematic Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to or growing wild in Ceylon. With the vernacular names and with references to Thwaites's "Enumeration". Colombo, George J.A. Skeen, Government Printer, 1885.

. Pp. (iv), 137. Original printed paper boards, cloth spine. Loose in binding. Bookplates. Contains 1071 different species. The vernacular names are given in Sinhalese and Tamil, and in some cases also in English. ("Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1885"). Scarce.

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Book number: 121305

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[SANSKRIT] TULLBERG, OTTO FREDRIK (Editor):

Malavika et Agnimitra. Drama indicum Kalidasae adscriptum. Textum primus edidit, in latinum covertit, varietatem scripturae et annotatinoes adiecit. Bonn ad Rhenum, H.B. Koenig, 1840.

. Pp. (iv), x, 108. With text in Sanskrit (pp. 1-95) and title, preface, contents and "Varietas scriptturae" in Latin. Occasionally some minor staining. Contemporary blind-stamped red paper binding, ruled in gilt, lightly rubbed, new spine. This is the first western printing of "M‹lavik‹ et Agnimitra" an Indian poetical and dramatic play written by Kalidasa. It is based on some events of the reign of Pushyamitra Shunga. Tullberg was a Swedish orientalist and musician. Zenker BO ii, 3338.

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Book number: 34092

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UJFALVY, KARL EUGEN VON:

Aus dem westlichen Himalaja. Erlebnisse und Forschungen. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1884.

. Pp. xxiv, 330. With five maps (of which four folding in colour), twenty plates, four folding tables and 102 illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial red cloth richly gilt. A beautiful copy of the first edition. A narrative of a scientific expedition in the Karakoram mountain range and the Baltoro glacier in 1881 by Karl Eugen von Ujfalvy, an Hungarian - Austrian linguist. He visited Srinagar, Baltistan, and Dardistan. It's mainly an anthropological treatise describing the inhabitants along the journey, and their customs, language, religion, commerce, industries, art and culture, etc. Aschoff 1944. Yakushi (1984) U08.

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Book number: 99760

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VENEDEY, J.:

Engelska Ostindien. Hindustans natur, folk, historia och seder. Sthlm 1858. (and "Nyheter från alla världsdelar" Sthlm 1858. 80 pp.)

. Pp. (ii), 318. With one map and 24 steel engravings (2 with slight marginal stain). With library stamps. Half morocco gilt, corners sl. bumped. A Swedish translation from the German by Kiellman-Göransson. A good copy. BOUND WITH: "Nyheter från alla världsdelar" Sthlm 1858. 80 pp.

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Book number: 19105

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WEBER, DR. ALBRECHT / PERTZ G.H. (Editor):

Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek. Part one: Verzeichniss der Sanskrit-Handschriften. Berlin 1853.

. 4to. Pp. xxiv, 481. With 6 coloured plates of manuscripts. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt with four raised bands and title label. Bookplate (Upsala University). A handsome copy. Zenker BO ii, 5828.

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Book number: 14130

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