HEDIN, SVEN, etc.:

De vetenskapliga resultaten av våra expeditioner i Central Asien och Tibet 1927-1935. Särtryck ur Ymer 1935, häfte 4. Stockholm 1935.

. Pp. 289- 338. With one folding coloured map and illustrations in the text. Contains short reports about the scientific results of the Sino-Swedish expedition 1925-35 by various scientists who participated. (Offprint from Ymer). Contains: Geological report by Erik Norin, G. Bexell and Nils G. Hörner; topographical and astronomical by Nils Ambolt; meteorological by Waldemar Halde; botanical and zoological by David Hummel; ethnographical and religious historical by Gösta Montell; music and folklore by Henning Haslund-Christensen; archaeological by T.J. Arne.

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Book number: 100301

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HESSLER, FRANZ (Transl.):

Susrutas. Ayurvédas. Id est Medicae Systema a venerabili d'Hanvantare demonstratum, a Susruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanskrita in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit. Three volumes in one. Erlangen, Ferdinand Enke, 1844-50.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. viii, (iv), 206, (2); viii, 248, two tables, (1); vi, 186, (1). With Latin text. Some foxing. Contemporary green cloth, ruled in gilt, marbled edges, lightly rubbed. This is the first Western translation of the Susruta Samhitá, which is one of the most important ancient medical treatises, and considered a foundational text of Ayurveda. Susruta was an Indian physician and is recognised as the father of Indian surgery. Includes a Sanskrit - Latin index of plants and trees. Two more parts titled "fasciculi" comprising comments and annotations were published in 1852 and 1855. Susruta Samhit‹ is an encyclopaedia of medical learning and includes the earliest description of plastic surgery. The complete version comprises 184 chapters with descriptions of over 1000 illnesses, 700 medical plants, 127 surgical instruments, etc. The first complete English translation was published in 1907 at Calcutta. Ref. Garrison & Morton, no. 11.

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Book number: 120760

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HODSON, THOMAS:

An Elementary Grammar of the Kannada, or Canarese Language; in which every word used in the examples is translated, and a pronunciation is given in English Characters. Bangalore, the Wesleyan Mission Press, 1864.

. Pp. (viii), 128. Later wrappers. Some browning. Second corrected and enlarged edition (first 1859). Thomas Hodson (1804-82) was a Wesleyan missionary who served in India for many years. He was an linguist, fluent in Tamil and Bengali, and a Kannada scholar. Kannada is a member of the Dravidian language family and the official language of the state of Karnataka in southern India. Not in Vater.

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Book number: 121315

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HORNSTETT, MRS. / MAYNARD DR. (Editor):

Upproret i Indien år 1857, med dess styggelser af mord, brand och våldsbragder. Berättade af en engelsk Lady, som med lifvet undkommit från dessa skräckscener, och upptecknade af Dr. Maynard. Stockholm 1858.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (ii), 171. Old half cloth. St.ot. A Swedish translation from the English dealing with an English Lady's tragic experiences in India during the rebellions in 1857.

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Book number: 20073

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HUNTER, DARD:

Papermaking by Hand in India. New York, Pynson Printers, 1939.

. Large 4to. Pp. 129 + two leaves. Uncut. With 84 illustrations made from photographs and 27 samples of various papers. The plates are printed by Photogravure & Color Co. and the binding by Gerhard Gerlach. Original hand-blocked India print cotton binding, black calf spine lettered in gilt, foot of spine chipped. Original cardboard folder with edge wear. Housed in a modern cloth box. First edition limited to 370 copies, of which this is no. 305. Signed by Hunter and the publisher Elmer Adler. A thorough study of handmade papers from various Indian provinces. The author visited Kashmir, Sailkot, Delhi, Agra, Kalpi, Wardha, Hyderabad and Dacca. Includes sections on early writing materials, papermaking materials and moulds.

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Book number: 120286

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INDIA. PALMBLAD, VILHELM FREDRIK (EDITOR):

Handbok i physiska och politiska, äldre och nyare geographien. III:1-2. Indien. Upsala 1832-33.

. Pp. (iv), 368; ii, 369-784, xviii. Sewn as issued, entirely uncut in original wrappers, worn. Holmberg pp. 99-100.

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Book number: 27031

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JACKSON, MONICA & STARK, ELIZABETH:

Tents in the clouds. London, Collins, 1956.

. Pp. 255. With 36 photographical illustrations and 5 maps. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dustwrapper (slightly chipped at foot of spine). First edition of the first women's Himalayan expedition. In 1955 three female mountaineers, two of them wrote this book, set out to find a way through the lower gorges to the glacier valleys of the Jugal Himal on the Nepali-Tibetan border. Another aim was to check and correct the only existing map of the area. They made the ascent of an unknown peak of over 22000 feet and named it Gyalgen Peak after their chief Sherpa. Neate J04. Robinson p.17. Yakushi (1984) J06a.

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Book number: 99189

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KINGDON-WARD, FRANK (FRANCIS):

The Land of the Blue Poppy. Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet. Cambridge, University Press, 1913.

. Pp. xii, 283, (1). With frontispiece, five maps and 39 plates with many photographs taken by the author. Publisher's cloth, somewhat faded. First edition. Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) was a British botanist and explorer who participated in many expeditions to Tibet, China, Myanmar (Burma) and Assam during a period of nearly fifty years, mainly to collect new species to bring back to England. This work is a narrative of Kingdon-Ward's expedition in 1911 to the north of Yunnan and South-Eastern Tibet to collect plants for the horticultural firm Bees Ltd of Liverpool. He brought back about 200 different specimens of which some proved new to science. Unfortunately, many of the seeds he introduced were unsuccessful and refused to flower. Among his successful plants were the first viable seed of Meconopsis betonicifolia (Himalayan blue poppy), Primula florindae (giant cowslip) and Rhododendron wardii (a yellow-flowered species). Yakushi (1984) K70.

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Book number: 99845

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KRISHNA, ISWARA / COLEBROOK, HENRY THOMAS etc. (Transl.):

Sânkhya Kârikâ or Memorial Verses of the Sânkhya Philosophy, by Iswara Krishna; Translated from the Sanscrit by H.T. Colebrooke, esq. Also the Bhashya or Commentary of Gaurapada, Translated, and Illustrated by an Original Comment, by H.H. Wilson. Oxford, for the Oriental Translation Fund Committee, 1837.

. 4to. Pp. xiv, 194 + 28 lvs with Sanskrit text + pp. ( 6). Uncut copy in modern cloth. The first publication in Sanskrit printed at the press of the University of Oxford. Horace Hayman Wilson was professor of Sanskrit and member of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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Book number: 14033

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LANDOR, A. HENRY SAVAGE:

På foerbjudna vaegar. Resor och aeventyr i Tibet. Stockholm 1899.

. Pp. x, 404. With 16 ills and one large folding map. Publisher's decorated red cloth, gilt. A nice copy of the Swedish translation from the English (London/New York 1898). A narrative of Landor's journey in western Tibet in 1897. Cf Yakushi L30.

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Book number: 15002

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[BOPP, FRANZ]. LEFMANN, SALOMON:

Franz Bopp, sein Leben und seine Wissenschaft. + Anhang: Aus Briefen und anderen Schriften. + Nachtrag. Three parts in one volume. Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1891-97.

. Pp. (iv), vi, vii, 381; 284; (iv), xlii, 129. With engraved front portrait of Franz Bopp. Modern half calf. The first work comprises; 1. Jugend-, Lehr- und Wanderjahre; 2. Mannesalter und Wirksamheit; 3. Im Greisenalter. The other two parts contain many letters, including correspondence with Karl Joseph Windischmann, Helmine von Chézy and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Franz Bopp (1791-1867) was a German linguist and Sanskrit scholar, who is regarded as the founder of comparative research on Indo-European languages.

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Book number: 99911

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LEITCH, MARY AND MARGARET W.:

Seven years in Ceylon. Stories of mission life. London (ca 1890).

. Small 4to. Pp. viii, 170, 2. With frontispiece, pictorial title page and numerous illustrations throughout the text. Original pictorial boards, cloth spine, slightly rubbed. Floral endpapers. Comprises letters written by two American missionaries living in Ceylon during the years 1880-87.

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Book number: 99070

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LIND AF HAGEBY, AXEL REINHOLD FERDINAND LUDVIG:

Minnen från ett tre-årigt vistande i Engelsk Örlogstjenst 1857-59. 2 parts in 1 volume. Stockholm, A. Bonnier, 1860.

. Large 8vo. Pp. (xii), 214, (ii), 215 - 468 (2). With one engraved front portrait, 26 plates and 4 folding plans and maps. The attractive plates consist of 10 coloured steelengravings after original Hindu drawings and 16 tinted lithographs depicting military subjects and Hindu ceremonies. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed. Bookplate. First edition. A narrative of travels in Asia by a Swedish naval officer serving the British naval service for three years (1857-59). Some places visited were the Cap, Singapore, Hong Kong, Calcutta and Ceylon.

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Book number: 99402

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MAGISTRIS, GIANCINTO DE / [DE THOU BINDING]:

Relatione della Christianità di Maduré fatta da Padri Missionarii della Compagnia di Giesú della Prouincia del Malauàr. Roma, per Angelo Bernabae del Verme, 1661.

. Pp. (xvi), 255, 254-286, 285-385, (3). With printed Jesuit emblem on title. Contemporary full calf, flat spine decorated in gilt, expertly restored. Recased. With gilt armorial stamp of Jacques-Auguste II de Thou on covers (combined with the arms of Gasparde la Chastre, his second wife). Armorial ink stamp on title page. Title waterstained, some staining to the text, and browning. One leaf (B4) restored at margin with loss of a few letters and final leaf (with index) repaired with loss of a few letters on its recto. First edition of this account of the Madura mission by an Italian Jesuit. Giancinto de Magistris (1605-68), served for several years in the province of Malabar in South India. He returned to Rome to report to the papacy on the revolt of Saint Thomas Christians of the Serra (Malabar). Carayon 994. De Backer-Sommervogel V, 313. See Olivier 216, 8 for the armorial stamp of Jacques-Auguste II de Thou (1609-77).

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Book number: 99390

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LE MESURIER, CECIL JOHN REGINALD & PA'NABOKKE, TIKIRI BANDARA Snr.:

N’ti-Nighanduva; or, The Vocabulary of Law. As it existed in the last days of the Kandyan kingdom. Colombo, William Henry Herbert, 1880.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxxix, 120. Interleaved copy. With some annotations. Contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine with red title label and initials F.A.H. in gilt at foot of spine. N’ti-Nighanduva is compiled from the archives of the Court of Kandy and is mainly concerned about laws of marriage and inheritance. Pânabokke Banda, president of Dumbara estate, acquired a copy of the original manuscript, had it transcribed and made a rough translation. In 1876 Le Mesurier got his hands on the ms, retranslated it and recasted it into its present form. The kingdom of Kandy was an independent monarchy in the central portion of the island Ceylon. It was founded in the late 15th century and absorbed into the British empire in 1815.Provenance: Frederic Austin Hayley with his bookplate on front pastedown. Author of " A treatise of the laws and customs of the Sinhalese" Colombo 1823.

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Book number: 100858

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Keywords: South Asia, ceylon, sri lanka, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, explortion, law,