PISCHEL, RICHARD (Ed.):

Kálidása's ‚akuntalá. With Bengal recension. With critical notes. Kiel, Schwers, printed by E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1877.

. Pp. xi, 140, 40. Text in Sanskrit and Bengali. Title and preface in English. Half title partly loose. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, hand-written title label on spine. Loss of corner on rear cover. Library stamp. First edition. Kalid‹s‹'s famous drama Abhij–‹nas‹kuntalam ("Of the recognition of Sakuntala") was one of the first works of Indian literature to become known in Europe. It was translated into English by W. Jones in 1789.

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Book number: 121372

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

A handbook of the ordinary dialect of the Tamil language. Part v. A Tamil prose reader adapted to the handbook. Seventh edition. Oxford, Claredon press, 1906.

. Pp. viii, 124. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Copy of Hugo Odeberg with his private stamp on title page. Contains: 1. Classical prose; 2. Business Tamil; 3. Easy stories; 4. Friendship's gain (for studies for the higher proficiency test); 5. "Cutlery Tamil" to those studying for the Indian Civil Service and; 6. Petitions and official correspondence. First edition was published in 1859.

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Book number: 34140

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

A handbook of the ordinary dialect of the Tamil language. Seventh edition. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1911.

. Pp. (iv), 24. With 3 folding tables. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt, somewhat rubbed. Copy of Hugo Odeberg. Some underlinings. Originally published in 1835 and it has been reprinted many times. Contains 101 lessons. Pope was university teacher of Tamil and Telugu in Oxford. "The handbook is the textbook prescribed for the young civilians appointed to Madras, he has peculiarly favourable opportunities of testing its usefulness and asceartaining its deficiencies".

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Book number: 34142

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

A handbook of the ordinary dialect of the Tamil language. Part iii. A compendious Tamil - English Dictionary. Seventh edition. Oxford, Claredon Press, 1905.

. Pp. (ii), 98. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Copy of Hugo Odeberg.

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Book number: 34143

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POPE, GEORGE UGLOW REV.:

[Tamil title] The Naladiyar or Four Hundred Quatranis in Tamil. With Introduction, Translation, and Notes Critical; Philological and Explanatory to which is added a Concordance and Lexicon with Authorities from the Oldest Tamil Writers. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1893.

. Pp. l, (ii), 440. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Copy of Hugo Odeberg (Swedish orientalist). First edition of this popular Tamil Classic. It was published to help westerners to gain knowledge of classical Tamil.

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RAGINI, SRI:

Nritanjali an Introduction to Hindu Dancing. New York, Hari G. Govil, 1928.

. Pp. 84. With frontispiece portrait and ten photographic illustrations. Original printed paper covers. Small book dealer label on front pastedown. First edition, limited to 950 copies. A lovely copy.

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Book number: 121483

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RASK, RASMUS KRISTIAN:

Singalesisk skriftlaere. Kolombo 1821 (1822).

. Pp. 16. As issued, uncut. The title page printed several years later in Copenhagen not present here (but supplied in facsimile). With important provenance: Fredrik Peter Jacob Dahl, Danish linguist. With inscription on first page reading that F.P.J. Dahl received this copy from Rask August 11, 1823. First and only edition of this Sinhalese grammar by the famous Danish linguist Rasmus Rask. In this work Rask compares Sinhalese with Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil, Telugi and other Asian languages. He deals with the phonetics, pronunciation, accentuation and numerals. In the introduction Rask explains that very little was known about the Sinhalese language up to this date and therefore Klaproth did not include anything about it in his "Asia Polyglotta" published a few years earlier. Rask travelled to India to study the relationship between the European and Asian languages, and he visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka) for about nine months in 1821/22. We believe the text was printed at Colombo in 1821 or 1822 but that the title page was not printed until 1828 or later in Copenhagen because the printed text on verso of the title is dated 1828. See Rhodes: "The Spread of Printing" Eastern Hemisphere, India, Burma, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand (1969) p. 76. Vater p. 73. Zenker ii 3019.

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Book number: 121064

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RIJNHART, SUSIE CARSON:

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple. Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior. Fifth edition. Foreign Christian Missionary Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, (1905?).

. Pp. (viii), 406. With one folding map and thirteen plates (mainly photographs). Publisher's cloth stamped in black, lightly darkened. Old ownership signature.Susan Carson, a Canadian doctor married a Dutch missionary Petrus Rijnhart who had joined the China Inland Mission in 1890. In 1898 Susie, Petrus and their little baby boy started a journey towards the forbidden city of Lhasa. But they never reached it. During the journey Rijnhart's child had died, Petrus mysterously disappeared and Susan had to make a two-month hazardous journey back to China by herself. First edition was issued in 1901. Robinson p.170. Yakushi (1984) R117a.

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Book number: 121196

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ANURUDDHA-SATAKA

[SINHALESE]. [An ancient Sanskrit poem in 101 stanzas, in praise of the Buddha, with an anonymous interverbal translation into Sinhalese]. Edited by A. da Silva Devarakkhita Batuvantudave. Colombo, N.S. Cooray, 1879.

. Pp. 39. Text in Sinhalese. Occasionally some light browning. Third edition, first Colombo 1866. Contemporary full calf, blind-pressed border on covers, rubbed, spine cracked with loss. Bookbinder label: E.A. Philip, Messenger Street no. 66. BOUND WITH: APPUHAMI, T. GUNASEKARA & APPUHAMI, T. KURE: [....] Indraguruluwa [About astrology]. No place, but probably Colombo 1880. Pp. (iv), 30. Text in Sinhalese, with illustrations. Some staining to the title. The Indragurulu method is a very subtle method of astrology.

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Book number: 120531

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SCHOTT, WILHELM:

Über die Sprache des volkes R—ng oder Leptscha in Sikkim. Berlin, Verlag der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1882.

. 4to. Pp. 15, (1). Original printed wrappers. ("Aus den Abhandlungen der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Belin 1881"). Lepcha is a Tibetan-Burman language spoken in Sikkim, West Bengal and Kalimpong, and also in Nepal and Bhutan.

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Book number: 99518

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SCHÖTTGEN (SCHOETTGENIUS), JOHAN CHRISTIAN / [WALTHER, CHRISTOPH THEODOSII]:

Vita et agon viri admodum reverendi Christophori Theodosii Waltheri, per annos XV. missionarii danici apud Trangambariensis optime meriti. Halle, litteris et impensis Orphanotrophei, 1742.

. 4to. Pp. 36 printed on thick paper. Partly with small marginal stain. Old paper wrappers, some discolouration, dog eared. A rare work about a German missionary and linguist. Christoph Walther (1699-1741) served in Danish India for many years at the beginning of the 18th century. He compiled several works about the mission, and biblical and linguistic works on Tamil.

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Book number: 121103

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SEBASTIANI, GIUSEPPE DE SANTA MARIA:

Seconda speditione all' Indie Orientali. Roma, nella stamperia di Filippo M. Mancini, 1672.

. 4to. Pp. (xxiv), 261, (1). With one nice large folding engraved map "Serra de Malavari". Contemporary full vellum, upper part of spine repaired, title in manuscript on spine. Old ownership signature on title page. First edition of Sebastiani's account of his second voyage to India between 1660 and 1665. Sebastiani, Bishop of Hierapolis and Apostolic Commissary of the Serra, was sent on missions to India to try to reunite the contending factions in Malabar. During this time he witnessed the fall of Cochin (1661) and Cranganore (1663) to the Dutch. Lach & Van Kley, 3:1, p. 383.

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Book number: 29139

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SIMPSON, WILLIAM:

The Buddhist Praying-Wheel. A Collection of Material Bearing upon the Symbolism of the Wheel and Circular Movements in Custom and Religious Ritual. London, Macmillan and Co., 1896.

. Pp. viii, 304. Including one frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Publisher's red cloth, praying wheel in gilt on front cover, spine slightly faded. First edition. The author spent some time in the Himalayas during the years 1860-61 and then passed over the boundary into Tibet and visited the Lamaseries and got interested in the so called "Praying-Wheel".

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Book number: 40018

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SKOTTSBERG, CARL & MONTELL, GÖSTA , etc.:

Hedinexpeditionens resultat. Särtryck ur Ymer 1951, h.3. Stockholm 1951.

. Pp. 161-224. With one folding coloured map and illustrations in the text. Original wrappers. Inscribed by Hedin to S.H. Prinzen Friedrich Ernst. A treatise initiated by "Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi" about the scientific results from the Sino-Swedish expedition. Offprint from Ymer.

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Book number: 100302

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SMITH, JOHN MACDONALD:

A Practical Handbook of the Khond Language. Cuttack, Printed at the Orissa Mission Press, 1876.

. Pp. iv, 130. Contemporary half calf over pebbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt, corners lightly rubbed. Contemporary inscription "from the compiler" to front end-paper. Smith's name beneath in another hand. First edition.This work comprises a grammar, dialogues, fables and a vocabulary with parallel texts in English and Khondi. It is the first of its kind to use Roman characters to express the language in writing. The Khondi (or Kui) language is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds, hunter-gatherers living mainly in Odisha (Orissa). John MacDonald Smith was a major on the Madras Staff Corps and appointed special assistant of the Governor of Fort St. George at Gamjam in Orissa.

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Book number: 120641

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