ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, ABRAHAM HYACINTHE:

Législation Orientale, ouvrage dans lequel, en montrant quels sont en Turquie, en Perse, et dans l'Indoustan les principles fondamentaux du gouvernement, on prouve, .... Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1778.

. 4to. Pp. (xvi), vi, 312, (38) table. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title label, extremities worn, spine ends chipped. Small marginal hole to half title and some very light staining to lower right corner of first thirteen leaves. First edition. Devoted to Muslim law, politics and government in Turkey, Persia and India. The author argues that Montesqieu's view of oriental despotism was wrong. Anquetil-Duperron, French scholar and linguist who travelled to India to search for ancient Zoroastrian texts. He acquired and translated almost 200 such manuscripts.

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Book number: 121382

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, turkish, turkey, persia, persian, india, inde, indian, oriental, exploration, legislation, islam,

BIRD, ISABELLA LUCY (Mrs. BISHOP):

Among the Tibetans. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1894.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 159. With 21 woodcut illustrations (of which 13 full page) by Edward Whymper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt illustrations, lightly rubbed and spine faded. First edition. Isabella Bird (1831-1904), a much-loved Victorian lady traveller, became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. In 1889 Isabella travelled from Srinagar to Ladakh via Zoji-la, Leh, Sassir-la, Depsang and the Karakorum. Yakushi (1984) B169.

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Book number: 121534

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, tibet, tibetan, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, lady traveller, travel, exploration, china, chine, chinese,

BUDAGOV, LAZAR ZAHAROVIC (Compiler):

- , /[AZERBAIJANI] (A practical guide to the Turkish-Tatar Aderbaidzhan]. Moscva, at the University Printing House, 1857.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), xiii, 278, vi (index). Text written in Perso-Arabic Nastaliq and Russian Cyrillic. Occasionally some small staining, parts of text browned due to the paper quality. Contemporary half cloth on marbled paper boards, spine faded. Library stamps to the title page (Vienna University library). First edition and the first printed work about the Azerbaijani language. Budagov (1812-79), Armenian-born in Astrakhan, studied in Moscow and Kasan and served as professor of Turkish and Persian at the University of St. Petersburg. Very rare. Not in Zaunmüller.

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Book number: 121465

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, azerbaijani, azeri turkic, russia, turkish, tatar, language, langue, linguistic,

DOMBAY, FRANZ LORENZ VON:

Grammatica linguae persicae, accedunt dialogi, historiae, sententiae, et narrationes Persicae. Vienna, apud Albert Camesina, ex officina Catharinae Nobilis de Kurtzbek, 1804.

. 4to. (viii), 114 pp. Text in Latin and Perso-Arabic written in Nastaliq style. Contemporary marbled paper boards, some paper loss to covers and spine. Bookplate. Small stain at margin of seven leaves otherwise a crisp and clean copy. First edition, composed in Kurzböck's "Tertia Perisch". Franz von Dombay (1758-1810) was an Austrian orientalist and translator. He was a member of the Privy Council and interpreter at the Imperial court. Zenker, BO I, 282. Schwab 758. Vater p.281.

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Book number: 121493

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, persia, persian, perse, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, linguistic, langue, grammar,

FOUCAUX, PHILPPE-ÉDOUARD:

Grammaire de la langue tibétaine. Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1858.

. Pp. xxxii, 231. Modern half calf, original wrappers with bound. Wrappers glued together with first and last leaves at inner margin. (Half title and last text leaf). One small hole in margin of last leaf. Some light staining throughout. Provenance: Staffan Rosén, professor of Korean at Upsala (Bookplate). Previously owned by Olov Bertil Andersson, Swedish sinologist, with his signature.First edition of the first Tibetan grammar in French. Foucaux (1811-1894) was a leading authority on Tibetan language and culture in Paris. He published a large number of Tibetan and Sanskrit works. Cordier BS 2933. Not in Vater or Zaunmüller.

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Book number: 121367

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, tibet, tibetan, language, langue, lingustic, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, east asia, china

HEDIN, SVEN:

Asien. Tusen mil på okända vägar. Two volumes. Stockholm 1903.

. Pp. (xii), 696, (8); (iv), 672, (8). With 4 maps, 164 plates and many more illustrations in the text. Publisher's green cloth printed in black and gilt. Old ownership signature. First edition. A very good copy of Hedin's narrative of his expedition to Central Asia and Tibet during the years 1899 to 1902. Hess p. 21.

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Book number: 100263

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, tibet, tibetan, india, inde, indian,

HUE, FERNAND:

Les russes et les anglais dans l'Afghanistan. Paris, E. Dentu, Librairie-Éditeur, 1885.

. Pp. 62. Copy with wide margins. With one map and one illustration. Original printed wrappers, chipped along edges, top of spine with small loss. First edition. Deals with the Anglo-Afghan Wars in which Britain, from its base in India, attempted to extend its control over neighbouring Afghanistan and to oppose Russian influence there. Provenance: Louis de Chasseloup-Laubar (1863-1954) with his stamp on title page.

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Book number: 121675

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, afghanistan, asia, asien, asiatic, asie, travel, exploration,

JARRING, GUNNAR:

On the Distribution of Turk Tribes in Afghanistan. An Attempt at a Preliminary Classification. Lund 1939.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 104. Unopened in original printed wrappers. Dedication by the author on front wrapper. "The purpose of the present work is to give a picture of the distributions of the Turkish peoples in Afghanistan on the basis of the knowledge obtainable from all the scattered sources about the country and from material collected by myself in the country in 1935" (Introduction).

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Book number: 120033

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, afghanistan, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, turkish, turks,

JARRING, GUNNAR:

The Uzbek Dialect of Qilich (Russian Turkestan) with Texts and Glossary. Lund & Leipzig 1937.

. Pp. 56, (1). Original printed wrappers. With dedication by the author. Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002), renowned Swedish diplomat and linguist, compiled this work during a stay in Srinagar, Kashmir in 1935 with the help of Ahmad Jan, an Uzbek refugee living there at the time. (Lunds Universitets årsskrift. N.F. Avd. 1. Bd 33. Nr. 3.).

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Book number: 100474

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, russai, russian, kashmir, turkestan, language, linguist, langue, uzbek, uzbec,

KAZIMIRSKI, ALBERT DE BIBERSTEIN:

[Arabic title] Enis el-Djelis ou histoire de la belle Persane. Conte des Mille et une nuits traduit de l'arabe et accompagné de notes. Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1847.

. Pp. 176. Text in Arabic and French. With beautiful extra title in Arabic printed in blue and gold on yellow paper. Original printed wrappers. First edition. The well-known Arabic collection "One Thousand and One Nights" has been translated into European languages since the beginning of the 18th century. The stories have inspired writers, painters, theatre and film makers, designers, etc. Here is the story "Nur-Ed-din and Enis-El-Jelis" translated into French by Kazimirski, a renowned Polish orientalist. He translated several Arabic and Persian works into French and authored an Arabic-French dictionary and made an important translation of the Qur'an into French (1840). A beautiful copy. Bourquelot iv, p. 455, no.3.

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Book number: 121673

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, arabic, persia, literature, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, language, langue,

MAILLART, ELLA K.:

Forbidden Journey. From Peking to Kashmir. London 1937.

. Pp. xvi, 312. With frontispiece (a few small tears at rear), three maps and 35 pages with multiple illustrations made from photographs. Publisher's red cloth, rubbed, endpapers toned. Old ownership signature. First English edition, later printing, published in the same year as the original French edition "Oasis interdites". Ella Maillart (1903-97) was born in Switzerland and loved to travel to find "the truth" within herself. n 1934 commissioned as a special correspondent for the French newspaper "Petit Parisien" she went to Manchuria. From there, together with the British explorer Peter Fleming, she made a tough journey home through the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts to the Hindu Kush ravines. Robinson p. 52. Yakushi (1984) M42b.

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Book number: 121281

Catalogue: Central Asia & India

Keywords: Central Asia & India, central asia, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, travel, exploration, travels, explore, manchuria, india, china, chine, afghanistan, mongolia, lady traveller

MANNERHEIM, CARL GUSTAF EMIL:

Across Asia from West to East in 1906 - 1908. Two volumes. Helsinki 1940.

. 4to. Pp. 741; iv, 54; 16; 48; 36; 36; 12; 6; 30; 12; and one blank leaf. With one portrait, fifteen maps, one folding plate (map index) and numerous illustrations in the text. A printed list of donors loosely inserted. Original cloth with title labels on spine, lightly soiled. First edition, limited to 500 copies (of which 100 were signed).Mannerheim, Finnish-born officer in the Russian army, covered approximately 14,000 km on horseback during his two-year journey along the Silk Road. He travelled from Russian Turkestan, through Chinese Turkestan and Western China via Gansu and Shaanxi to Peking. The initial mission of the expedition was to study conditions in northern China and "other military objectives" but was later expanded to also collect archaeological and ethnological material. The first part of this work contains Mannerheim's diary and the second contains scientific descriptions of the collections of many famous scientists. "The edition ... was regrettably too small and the work has remained almost unknown" (Aalto p.117). Aalto, Oriental Studies in Finland, pp. 113-118 & 136. Yakushi M74a.

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Book number: 100306

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, central asia, china, chine, kina, chinese, russia, russian, turkestan, travel, exploration,

MARTIN, FREDRIK ROBERT:

The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia India and Turkey from the 8th to the 18th century. Two volumes. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1912.

. Folio. Text volume: pp. xii, 156 with five coloured plates highlighted with gold and many illustrations in the text. Plate volume: pp. (6), 14 and 271 b/w plates. Uncut copy in original blue cloth, printed in gilt, spines faded and lightly rubbed. First edition of a significant work on oriental miniature paintings.Fredrik Martin, a renowned Swedish orientalist known for his foremost collections of oriental art that he gathered during his travels to Russia, the Caucasus and throughout the near and middle East. Between the years 1902 and 1908 he served as interpreter at the Swedish legation in Constantinople. Arne, Svenskarna och Österlandet, pp. 307-8.

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Book number: 121356

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, persia, turkey, persian, turkish, levant, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, painting, illustrated, miniatures, oriental, east, near east, middle east

PAQUIER, JEAN BAPTISTE:

PAQUIER, JEAN BAPTISTE: Le Pamir. Étude de géographie physique et historique sur l'Asie Centrale. Paris 1876.

. Pp. viii, 218, (1) errata. With five folding maps. As issued in original printed wrappers, faded, frayed along edges. Some minor staining throughout. First edition of this historical account of Central Asia from the explorations of the first Buddhist pilgrims and Marco Polo until the time of the conquest. The maps depict: 1. the ancient Pamir; 2. the travels of Hiuen-Tsang and Marco Polo from the 8th to 13th century; 3. the travels of Benedict de Goes 1603, John Wood 1838 and the Mirza 1868-69; 4. the British and Russian discoveries between 1860-75 and; 5. and again up to 1878.

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Book number: 100526

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, afghanistan, kirgistan, pakistan, china, chine, pakistane, tagikistan, tajikistan, persian, russia, travel, exploration, pamir,

POZDNEEV, ALEKSEJ MATVEEVI‚ (Ed.):

/ Kalmytskaya khrestomaniya. Petrograd, Tipografija I. Boraganskago, 1915.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. (ii), iii, (1), 196. Modern cloth. Third, corrected and enlarged edition of this Kalmyk anthology issued for students. Scarce. Aleksay Pozdneev (1851-1920) was a Russian orientalist and specialist in Mongol studies, and the first director of the Oriental Institute in Vladivostok. He participated in two expeditions to Mongolia, including a visit to the Kalmyks of the Ural Cossack Host in 1911. Provenance: Staffan Rosén, professor of Korean at Uppsala, Sweden. (eng transkr) Kalmytskaja chrestomanija (svensk transkr.)

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Book number: 121655

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, kalmuch, kalmyck, kalmyk, kalmykia, language, lingustic, langue, anthology, russia, ryssland, russe, siberia, mongolia, mongol, calmucks, asia