Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB): south asia
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Through Unknown Tibet. London 1898.
. Pp. xiv, 440. With portrait frontispiece, 4 folding lithographic charts, 76 illustrations in the text (of which 25 full page). Original pictorial cloth, gilt, worn, recased with new endpapers. Marginal stain to frontispiece and title page. St.o.t. (blind). First edition of this narrative of Wellby and Malcolm's journey across Tibet and northern China in 1896. They found a more northerly route to Peking than that of Bower. The journey started at Lucknow, continued to Simla and finished in the wilds of Waziristan. Cordier BS 2922. Marshall 869. Yakushi (1984) W50.
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Catalogue: South Asia
Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, india, central asia, east india, south asia, indien, tibet, himalaya, travel, exploration, china, chinese, kina
The Abode of Snow. Observations on a journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the upper valleys of the Himâlaya. Second edition. Edinburgh & London 1876.
. Pp. xxviii, 436. With one coloured front and one large map. Contemporary red half calf on marbled boards, slightly rubbed. This is a narrative of the author's journey in 1873 from Simla to Kashmir through Shingo La, Paduon, Penze La, Dras, and Zoji La. When he reached Spiti he was refused to go further and he comments on the reasons for unwillingness of the Tibetans to allow foreigners to enter their country. It contains valuable ethnological observations. Cordier BS 2917. Yakushi W 87. Marshall 839.
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Catalogue: South Asia
Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, south asia, east india, central asia & india, tibet, thibet, caucasus, himalaya, kashmir, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, inde, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen, zentralasien
Monita et exempla. Trichinopoli (South India), typis Collegii S. Joseph, 1897.
. Small 4to. Pp. 220, ii (Index). With engraved frontispiece. Original red calf, covers and spine ruled in black, title lettered in gilt on upper cover, g.e., upper corners worn. The teachings of Francis Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He devoted most of his life to missions in Asia.
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Catalogue: South Asia
Keywords: South Asia, india, inde, indian, asia, asien, asien, asiatic, missionary, mission, travel, exploration, jesuit
A Grammar of the Sunscrit Language, on a New Plan. Calcutta, Printed and sold by the Baptist Mission Press, 1820.
. Pp. viii, v-xxviii, 426. Missing last leaf; page 427 and the errata. Small wormholes running through the text. Expertly rebound in half calf (by Bernard Middleton). With inscription by the author. First edition. William Yates (1792-1845), British baptist missionary and renowned linguist who first came to India in 1815 where he worked together with William Carey at Serampore. In 1817 he moved with the Baptist Missionary Society to Calcutta where he established a school and was involved in building chapels and other religious establishments in Calcutta and its vicinity. Yates composed many linguistic works and manuals of Sanskrit and Hindustani as well as handbooks of natural science and history for Indians. He also translated the Bible into Bengalee. Vater p. 333.
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Catalogue: South Asia
Keywords: South Asia, asia, asien, asiatic, asie, language, langue, linguistic, travel, exploration, sanskrit, sanscrit, india, indian, inde,