BRIAND, PIERRE CESAR:

Les jeunes voyageurs en Asie, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compirs dans cette belle partie du monde. Contenant des détails sur le sol, les productions, les curiosités, les moeurs et coutumes des habitans, les hommes célèbres, et des anecdotes curieuses. Eight volumes. Paris, Hivert, 1829.

. 12mo. Complete in eight volumes. With seven coloured maps and sixteen engraved plates. Contemporary red boards, gilt lettering on spines. Bindings rubbed, a few hinges are weak. First edition of this charming work on Asia written for young audiences. Comprises two parts, the first covers Turkey, Arabia, Persia and India. The second deals with China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Tartary and the Asian part of Russia. The author was a Parisian bookseller who wrote several travel guides. Occasionally some light staining but overall a very good copy. Cordier BS 3027. Gumuchian 927.

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N° du livre: 121383

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, children, juvenile,

CASTRÉN, MATTHIAS ALEXANDER:

Grundzüge einer tungusischen Sprachlehre nebst kurzem Wörterverzeichniss. Herausgegeben von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg, Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1856.

. Pp. xvi, (iv), 140. Contemporary half cloth, original green printed wrappers withbound. Library stamps. A few leaves with some spotting. First edition. Castrén, renowned Finnish linguist, made several journeys to Siberia, Russia and Lapland for linguistic and ethnographical studies. His scientific works were published after his death by Schiefner supported by the Scientific Academy in Petersburg under the series title "Nordische reisen und Forschungen" (1853-62). Important work dealing with the Tungusic languages spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria. Löwendahl Supplement 1786. Zaunmüller p. 125.

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N° du livre: 120956

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, tungusic, tungus, siberia, siberian, language, langue, linguistic, russia, china, chine, chinese, kina,

FURUYA, KÍRIN:

Shi-mashima (Stripe Patterns). Two volumes. Kyôto, Yamada Noosabur›, Gômei Gaisha Uns›d›, Meiji 39 (1906).

. Complete set with more than two hundred colour woodblock patterns with Japanese captions. Comprises forty leaves with multiple images, title page and colophon. Leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. Ribbon-bound in original decorated paper wrappers, missing one binding string, title labels on upper covers. Ex-ownership stamp. Second edition, first 1904. The collection contains creative images with geometric patterns, many of which consist of figures and characters. Furuya K›rin, student of Kamisaka Sekka, was one of foremost designers to create the Japanese "modern design" in the first decade of the twentieth century. Published by Uns›d›, the reputable printing house in Kyoto. The covers are lightly rubbed, occasionally some minor staining but an attractive copy.

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N° du livre: 121412

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, aisen, asiatic, illustrations, woodcut, patterns, design, stripes, neorinpa,

HOLBERG, LUDVIG:

Adskillige store heltes og berömmelige maends, saer orientaliske og indianske sammenlignede historier of bedrifter efter Plutarchi madde. 2 volumes. Kiöbenhavn 1742.

. Pp. (viii), 568; (ii), 574. Contemporary half calf, spine with four raised bands and title-labels. No endpapers. Bookplate. Second, revised edition (first 1753). Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), Norwegian - Danish author has been called the father of modern Danish literature. Ehrencron-Müller i, 283. Bibl. Danica ii, 465-66.

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N° du livre: 26066

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, orient, oriental, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, literature

ÖSTERREICHISCHES HANDELS-MUSEUM (Ed.):

Teppich-Erzeugung im Orient. Monographien von Sir George Birdwood, Geheimrath Dr. Wilhlem Bode, C. Pudon Clarke, M. Gerspach, Sidney J.A. Churchhill, Vincent J. Robinson, J.M. Stoeckel. Wien, Ch. Reisser & M. Werthner, 1895.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), 204. With four full page plates and many illustrations in the text. Original decorated boards, cloth spine lettered in gilt. Binding somewhat dusty, spine faded. With additional 74 coloured plates with oriental carpets, in various sizes, some are folded. The plates don't belong to this work and might be copied from the monumental work "Orientalische Teppiche" published in 1893-6.

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N° du livre: 121515

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, carpets, designs, oriental, asia, asien, asiatic, exploration,

NORCOPENSIS (NORDENHIELM), ANDREAS (Pres.) / WOLLIMHAUS (LEIJONSTEDT), ANDERS (Resp.):

De politica orbis asiatici conservatione dissertatio. Uppsala, Henricus Curio, (1676).

. Small 8vo. Pp. (viii), 125, (5). Dissertation date entered in ink (16 Febr.) on title. Last ten leaves with marginal stain, title page slightly dusty. Modern paper-covered boards, title label on front cover. The first Swedish thesis dealing with Asia titled "the political preservation of the Asian world". Deals with the Asian empires: the Ottoman, Tartary, Persia, Japan and China. The works cover topics such as religion, politics, war and peace, customs, the liberal arts, etc. Andreas Norcopensis (1633-94), professor in practical philosophy and later Swedish state secretary. Printed dedication to Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. At end a tribute to Wollimhaus by Johannes Schefferus. Very rare.

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N° du livre: 121491

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, ottoman, levant, turkey, japan, china, persia, travel, exploration, sweden, swedish, dissertation

OWEN, JOHN:

The History of the Origin and First Ten Years of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Two volumes. London, Tilling and Hughes, 1816.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xx, 527; (ii), 638. With staining throughout. Uncut copy in contemporary boards, volume two rebacked. Old ownership signature on titles. First edition. Devoted to the Society's work around the world, translations of the scriptures, etc. See Löwendahl Supplement 1699 (reg. Society's work in China).

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N° du livre: 120960

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, bible, religious, religion, scriptures, foreign mission, missionary works, africa, afrique, african, asia, asian, asie, america, amerika, american, amerique,

PALMBLAD, VILHELM FREDRIK:

De Buddha et Wodan dissertatio. Parts i-iv. Upsala 1822.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), 10; (iv), 11-20; (iv), 21-30; (iv), 31-28. 38. Uncut copy, sewn as issued. Unbound. Early Swedish study on comparative religion. The author argues against von Schlegel's point of view. Marklin p. 96.

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N° du livre: 99335

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, religion, religions, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, buddha, buddhism

VON SCHLEGEL, AUGUST WILHELM:

Réflexions sur l'étude des langues asiatiques adressées a Sir James Mackintosh, suivies d'une lettre a M. Horace Hayman Wilson. Bonn & Paris 1832.

. Pp. xii, 205, (3). Contemporary marbled paper covered boards, rubbed, title label on spine, marbled edges. Traces of old library label on spine. A few leaves with light foxing. First edition. In this work Schlegel proposes a plan to translate and publish important Asian works held at the British Museum Library and the universities that are still only available in manuscript form. August Schlegel, a German poet, translator and professor of Sanskrit in Bonn. He made a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

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N° du livre: 121102

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, asia, asien, asiatic, language, langue, linguistic,

[ODORICO MATIUZZI] VENNI, GIUSEPPE:

Elogio storico alle gesta del Beato Odorico dell'ordine de minori conventuali con la storia da lui dettata de' suoi viaggi asiatici illustrata da un religioso dell' ordine stesso e presentata a gli amatori delle antichitâ. Venezia, Antonio Zatta, 1761.

. Large 4to ( 32.5 x 24 cm). Pp. viii, 152, printed on high-quality paper. With folding engraved frontispiece depicting a scene in which Blessed Odorico performs baptism, engraved vignette on title, one large folding engraved map dated Venizia 1760, one engraved plate and one genealogical table. Uncut copy with wide margins. Contemporary unsophisticated rustic paper boards, with some minor staining. Scarce work of Odorico's journey to the Far East 1318-30. It is alternatively attributed to Giuseppe Venni and to Fr. Benofi. Some minor staining at beginning and end but still a magnificent copy. Odorico Matiuzzi or Odoric of Pordenone (1286-1331) was a Franciscan missionary who travelled to Asia shortly after Marco Polo. In 1318 he started out from Padua, travelled to Constantinople and continued via Armenia, Media and Persia to India. He was the first European to reach Indonesia and finally arrived in China where he spent three years in Khanbaliq (Beijing). He mentions Hangzhou as "greater city than any other in the world, being 100 miles around, with everywhere within inhabited; often a house has 10 or 12 families. The city has twelve gates and at each gate at about eight miles are cities larger than Venice or Padua". Upon his return to Italy in 1329, he wrote a chronicle of his travels and called it the "itinerarium" which contains 73 known manuscripts written in Latin, French and Italian. They include accurate descriptions of Asian social and religious customs. After his death, he became an object of popular devotion and was beatified in 1755. Odorico's narrative was first printed at Pesaro in 1513 by Ponticus Viranius "Odorichus de rebus incognitis" in what Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750) calls lingua inculta e rozza (uncultivated and crude language). Odoric's work was an important source for the account of John Mandeville (first 1480). "Cette édition de Venni est une des meilleures d'Odoric" (Cordier). Cordier BS 2012. See Melzi I, 353. See Löwendahl 2 (Mandeville) and 45 (Ramusio). This edition not in Löwendahl.

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N° du livre: 121396

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, asia. asie, asien, asiatic, india, inde, china, chine, kina, chinese, near east, middle east, indonesia, sumatra, travel, exploration, voyage,

WERNER, REINHOLD VON:

Die preussische Expedition nach China, Japan und Siam in den Jahren 1860, 1861 und 1862. Leipzig 1873.

. Pp. xxii, 551. With one folding map and 7 full page woodcut plates. A few leaves with some stain. Contemporary half calf, spine with title printed in gilt, rubbed, upper part of lower hinge chipped. Second edition (first 1863). Reinhold von Werner (1825-1909) was a German Vice Admiral who commanded this expedition to the Far East, visiting Singapore, Hong Kong, Edo, Nagasaki, Shanghai and Siam. His account describes the voyage with much information about the people, customs, architecture, trade, art, music, theatre, laws, concubines etc. along the route. Cordier BS 2521 & BJ 557.

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N° du livre: 24064

Catalogue: Asia general

Mots-clés: Asia general, china, japan, siam, east, far east, asia, asien, asiatic, asie, kina, travel, exploration, voyages, chinese, japanese,