BONVALOT, GABRIEL:

De Paris au Tonkin a travers le Tibet inconnu. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1892.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (iv), 507. Three pages at end with contents missing. With one large folding map and 108 illustrations (of which some full page) after photographs taken by Prince Henri d'Orleans. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, e.g. Bookplate. A narrative of a journey taken from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 1889-90. Bonvalot travelled together with Prince d'Orleans. Cordier BI 2436. Yakushi (1984) B220.

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BOPP, FRANZ: [

Sanskrit title]. Ardschuna's Reise zu Indra's Himmel, nebst anderen Episoden des Maha-Bharata; in der Ursprache zum erstenmal herausgegeben, metrisch übersetzt, und mit kritischen Anmerkungen versehen. Berlin, Druckerei der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1824.

. 4to. Pp. xxviii, (80), (ii), 122. Contemporary boards, r.e., worn. Old inscription on front endpaper. Partly some minor browning. First edition. Contains the original Sanskrit text of five episodes from the Maha-Bharata: Ardshuna's Himmelsreise; Hidminba's Tod; Des Brahmanen Wehklage; Sundas und Upasundas; Nalas und Damjanti, complemented with a German translation and comments. Zenker BO ii, 3196.

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BRIGEL, J.:

A Grammar of the Tulu Language. Mangalore, Published by C. Stolz, Basel Mission Book & Tract Depository, 1872.

. Pp. (iv), 139, (5). With text in English and Kanarese characters. Title page laid-down and preface leaf strengthened along edges. Modern cloth. With library stamps (Harvard University). First edition of the first separate grammar of the Tulu language to be published. Tulu is a Dravidian language spoken in the area known as "Tulu Nada" situated in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala. The Basel Mission was established in 1834. The first works printed by the Mission Press were mainly religious, initially lithographically and subsequently typographically.

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Book number: 120931

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CAMPBELL, DONALD:

Land-resa till Indien + FRA PAOLINOS SAN BARTOLOMEO: Resor i Indien. Stockholm, Johan Pfeiffer, 1801.

. Pp. (viii), 364, index (17). Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled in gilt and with title label, rubbed. A few pages with some minor staining. Swedish abridgments of two wellknown travel accounts of India, translated from German editions by Samuel Ödmann.

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Book number: 28009

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CARTER, CHARLES HENRY:

An English and Singhalese Lesson Book on Ollendorff's System; Designed to teach Singhalese through the medium of the English language. Colombo (ca 1880).

. Pp. 167, interleaved copy. First part of the book filled with scholarly annotations on the blank leaves. Contemporary half calf, worn, hinges cracked. Ownership inscription on title page: "Major A. Ewing Colombo". Library stamps. Bookplate. Rare, short useful manual in Sinhalese, comprising 84 lessons followed by an index. It was first published in 1860 by William Skeene at the Government Press. Carter (1828-1914) served as a Baptist missionary in Ceylon for many years. He published an important English-Sinhalese dictionary in 1891.

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CARTWRIGHT, CHARLES:

An Abstract of the Orders and Regulations of the Honourable Court of Directors of the East-India Company, and of other documents relating to the Pains and Penalties the Commanders and Officers of Ships in the Company's service are liable to, for breach of orders, illicit trade, &c. + An Appendix, ... and a list of the duties payable to the King on all goods imported from the East-Indies and China. No place (London 1788).

. Pp. (viii), lxxx, appendix 56. Occasional minor spotting, one small marginal wormhole repaired. Modern green morocco, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. First edition.A manual for East India Company officers, mainly focused on their private trade compiled by Cartwright, the Deputy Accountant-General. The extent of the Abstract suggests a remarkable range of illicit commerce. The attached list of duties to be paid on imported goods from the East Indies and China includes arrack, coffee, elephants' teeth, various fabrics, dragon's blood, tea, rum, etc. Officers are reminded not to land goods on Sark, Jersey, or Ireland. An order prohibiting dockers from entering ships' holds suggests a recognised route for smuggled cargo. The numerous notes regulating bullion and bills of exchange indicate yet another area of illegitimate activity. Commanders are reminded that passengers, unless authorised by appropriate Company officials, or members of the ships' company, are prohibited, with details of charges depending on nationality. Scarce.

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CAUNTER, REV. JOHN HOBART / DANIELL, WILLIAM (Ill.):

The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India. London, Samuel Bentley, 1836.

. Pp. (viii), 297, (1), adv. (6). With 22 steel engravings after drawings by William Daniell, including frontispiece and extra title. All protected by tissue guards. Publisher's embossed cloth, spines and covers blind-stamped and richly decorated in gilt, a.e.g., expertly rebacked.Deals with a journey visiting Madras, Tanjore, Madurai, Trichengur, Seringapatam, kingdom of Coorg Rajah, Cochin, Angria Bank, Muscat in Oman and finally Bombay and its vicinity. The beautiful plates depict views, sacred and famous buildings and sites, exotic animals including wild beasts fights and tiger hunt, etc. William Daniell travelled in India with his uncle Thomas Daniell for eight years and they produced a number of highly desirable aquatint illustrated works of the country including the renowned "Oriental Scenery" (1794). This volume is included in a series of seven volumes issued between 1834 and 1840.

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CHÉZY, ANTOINE-LÉONARD (Ed.) / [KALIDASA]

[...] La reconnaissance de Sacountala, drama sanskrit et practit de Calidasa, publié pour la première fois, en original, sur un manuscrit unique de la Bibliothèque du roi. Accompagné d'une traduction française, de notes philologiques, critiques et littéraires, et suivi d'un appendice. Paris, a la librairie orientale de Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1830.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), xxxii, 268, Sanskrit text pp. (iv) + 166, Notes pp. 122, Appendice pp. 100. With one folding lithographed plate in sepia. Engraved dedication to Le Baron Silvestre de Sacy (Chézy's teacher). Contemporary silk covered boards, somewhat rubbed. Occasionally some light foxing or staining. Chézy's magnus opus and editio princeps of Shakuntala (in the Bengali recension) with a French translation together with the correspondence episode from the Mahabharata in the appendix. The Hindu story of Shakuntala is told in the epic Mahabharata, considered the best of Kalidasa's works. Kalidasa was a Sanskrit poet and dramatist widely regarded as the greatest Indian writer of any epoch. Much of his life is unknown but it's believed he lived in the 5th century.Antoine-Le—nard de Chézy (1773-1832) was a French orientalist, pupil of Silvestre de Sacy, who became a pioneer of Sanskrit in Europe. He was an Arabic and Persian scholar who taught himself Sanskrit from the manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale. He was appointed the first professor of Sanskrit at the Collège de France (first of its kind in Europe). Today he is almost forgotten and overshadowed by his talented students Eugène Burnouf, Franz Bopp and Othmar Frank to mention a few. Ref: G. Pollet: "Indian Epic Values: Ramayana and its Impact" Leuven 1995. Pp. 117.

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CLARKSON, WILLIAM:

A Grammar of the Gujarâti language. Bombay, American Mission Press, T. Graham, 1847.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), ii, 175. With two tables (one folding). Later green cloth, red title-label on spine. The Gujarâti language belongs to the Indo-Arayan family and derived from Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsa. It contains two alphabets; the Bâlbodh or Shastri (used for educational purposes) and the Gujarâti (for correspondence and mercantile transactions). William Clarkson was an English protestant missionary who for some years lived in Gujarât. The new types of Gujarâti letters here used were created and produced by the Mission Press at the time. Scarce.

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COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN, DENIS LOUIS:

Bosquejo historico de Goa escripto em inglez. Nova-Goa 1858.

. Pp. viii, 5-199, index 200-203. Modern boards. Old ownership signature on title (dated 1882). First edition in Portugese translated from "An historical sketch of Goa", Madras 1831. A detailed description of the history of Goa including information about the language, religions, trade and industry. The translation also includes an account about St. Francis Xavier's tomb and Francisco Pirard's 1628 description of Pagim during it's golden era. Cottineau de Kloguen was a French missionary born in Nantes. Innocêncio vi, 251; xvii, 69. Gonçalves 57.

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DALGADO, DANIEL GELçSIO:

Classificaçáo botanica das plantas e drogas, descriptas nos "Coloquios da India" de Garcia d'Orta. Bombaim, Nicol's Printing Work's, 1894.

. Pp. (viii), 35. With 5 plates. Original printed boards, cloth spine, stained. Loose in binding. A classification of plants and drugs described in Garcia de Orta's "Coloquios dos simples e drogas he cousas medicinais da India" (Goa 1563).

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DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRINE:

My Journey to Lhasa. The Personal Story of the Only White Woman who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City. London, Heinemann, 1927.

. Pp. xviii, (ii), 310. With front portrait and 43 half tones mostly taken from the author's photographs. Publisher's cloth printed in gilt, corners and spine ends chipped. Old ownership label pasted in on front paste down. Ugly marks to cover page numbering on the first five introductory leaves. First edition, simultaneously published in Paris and New York. Alexandrine spent several years preparing for the adventurous journey to the holy city of Lhasa. She studied thoroughly Tibetan customs and language. Disguised as a Tibetan nun she crossed the wild, unexplored parts of Tibet with her young companion Lama Yongden. After four and half months they reached Lhasa which at the time was closed to women. Robinson p. 9. Yakushi (1984) D 45b.

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Book number: 121194

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DESGRANGES, [ALIX]:

Grammaire sanscrite-francaise. Two volumes. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1845 -1847.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), xlii, 588; (iv), 543, (1). Uncut copy in beautiful half calf on marbled boards, spines with five raised bands and title lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers with bound. The first volume with some light water staining at beginning, and the second volume foxed throughout. The first Sanskrit grammar to be published in France. Vater p. 333. Zenker BO ii, 2820.

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Book number: 34125

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KALIDASA / EKELUND (Translator):

Sakontala; ett indiskt dramatiskt poem. Översatt från sanscrit på engelska af W. Jones och, efter denna samt G. Forsters tyska tolkning, på svenska af J. Ekelund. Stockholm, Zacharias Haeggström, 1821.

. Pp. (ii), xlviii, 171, (1). Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, spine and corners chipped, stained. Old ownership signature. First Swedish edition of Sakuntala, the famous romantic poem by the anicent Indian writer Kalidasa. It was first introduced to Europe in 1789 when it was translated into English by W. Jones. Klemming p. 220.

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Book number: 99664

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ELVIUS, PEHR the elder (preses) / BACKMARK [BÄCKMARK], PETRUS (resp.):

Disputatio gradualis de Taprobana (Ceylon). Uppsala, Werner, 1713.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (ii), 32, (2). Text in Latin. Later (early 20th century) half calf, flat spine decorated and lettered in gilt (by G. Hedberg). A rare Swedish dissertation about Ceylon or Taprobana as it was called earlier. The name Taprobana became known in Europe through Ptolemy's "Geographia" but was sometimes confused with Sumatra on the early maps.

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Book number: 100855

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