Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB): Central Asia
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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
€  1500.00 [Appr.: US$ 1574.47 | £UK 1251.75 | JP¥ 239811]
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
€  380.00 [Appr.: US$ 398.86 | £UK 317.25 | JP¥ 60752]
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
€  1600.00 [Appr.: US$ 1679.43 | £UK 1335.25 | JP¥ 255798]
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
€  500.00 [Appr.: US$ 524.82 | £UK 417.25 | JP¥ 79937]
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
€  950.00 [Appr.: US$ 997.16 | £UK 792.75 | JP¥ 151880]
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
€  200.00 [Appr.: US$ 209.93 | £UK 167 | JP¥ 31975]
Catalogue: Central Asia
Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, tibet, tibetan, india, inde, indian,

 
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
€  180.00 [Appr.: US$ 188.94 | £UK 150.25 | JP¥ 28777]
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
€  150.00 [Appr.: US$ 157.45 | £UK 125.25 | JP¥ 23981]
Catalogue: Central Asia
Keywords: Central Asia, russai, russian, kashmir, turkestan, language, linguist, langue, uzbek, uzbec,

 
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
€  240.00 [Appr.: US$ 251.91 | £UK 200.5 | JP¥ 38370]
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
€  1800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1889.36 | £UK 1502 | JP¥ 287773]
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.
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
€  4600.00 [Appr.: US$ 4828.36 | £UK 3838.5 | JP¥ 735419]
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
€  400.00 [Appr.: US$ 419.86 | £UK 334 | JP¥ 63950]
Catalogue: Central Asia
Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, afghanistan, kirgistan, pakistan, china, chine, pakistane, tagikistan, tajikistan, persian, russia, travel, exploration, pamir,

 TOMMASEO, NICCOLñ:, Storia de Mosé Corenese illustrata dai Monaci Armeni Mechitaristi. Venezia, typografia Armena di San Lazzaro, 1841.
TOMMASEO, NICCOLñ:
Storia de Mosé Corenese illustrata dai Monaci Armeni Mechitaristi. Venezia, typografia Armena di San Lazzaro, 1841.
. Pp. xxii, 403, index (15). With one engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, flat spine decorated and lettered in gilt, g.e. A few leaves with some light staining but overall a beautiful copy. First edition. Mose of Correne, Armenian historian who wrote the important "History of Armenia" in the 5th century. Tommaseo (1802-74) was a Dalmatian linguist, journalist and essayist. Printed at the Armenian monastery on the island of St Lazare outside Venice. ("Collana degli storici Armeni" volume 1").
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Book number: 121452
€  450.00 [Appr.: US$ 472.34 | £UK 375.5 | JP¥ 71943]
Catalogue: Central Asia
Keywords: Central Asia, armenia, armenian, history, literature, caucasia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

 
WILKINS, CHARLES:
A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language. London, Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co., and sold by Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, Booksellers to the Honourable the East India Company, 1808.
. 4to. Pp. iii-xx, 662 (half title is missing). With five engraved plates. Rebound in half calf, title label on spine. Library stamp on title (Biblioth. Semin. Philad. S. Caroli Borr.) and "Ex Libris Biblioth.S. Caroli Borrom." written by hand. Title page slightly chipped along margins. Partly with some light foxing, some offsetting to the text from the engraved plates. Four leaves heavily browned from inlaid loose papers with scholarly notes. Some old neat annotations in a few places. Very rare in the trade.The first English grammar of the Sanskrit language. The Devanagari types used are cut and cast by the Wilkins himself. In the Preface he explains that he began preparing the types in 1795. However, a fire destroyed all the types and it was not until 1808 that he was encouraged by the East India College to continue this work. Charles Wilkins (1749-1836), famous orientalist, who in 1770 came to India in the service of the East India Company. He was a pioneer in the study of Sanskrit and best known for publishing the first English translation of the Bhagavad Gita in 1785. This introduced Indian culture to the western world. Upon his return to England he was appointed first librarian of the India House Library (now British Library, Oriental Collections). Ref: De Sacy 2933. Thonnelier 1480. Vater p.332. See Windisch 22-23. Provenance: The Roman Catholic Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia was founded in 1832. (Charles Borromeo was Latin Archbishop in Milan 1564-8). In 2016, the Seminary underwent a reconstruction and downsizing. To raise funds, the Seminary sold paintings and rare books from its library at auctions. Furthermore, we would like to add that there is a note: "Arthur Mostyn Owen September 1829" in two places (pp. 352 and 493) which makes us believe that this copy has belonged to him. Owen (1814-96) attended the East India College at Haileybury 1829-31.
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Book number: 121454
€  3000.00 [Appr.: US$ 3148.93 | £UK 2503.25 | JP¥ 479621]
Keywords: Central Asia & India, india, indian, sanskrit, language, langue, lingustic, asia, asien, asie, asiatic

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