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

Catalogue: South Asia

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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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Keywords: South Asia, Asia, Asie, Asiatica, Asien, orient, east, tibet, thibet, exploration, travels, voyages, explore, central asia, viajes, viaggio, reisen, zentralasien, asie central, asie centrale

[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. The N’ti-Nighanduva is a Sinhalese law book which mainly deals with marriage and inheritance laws. The kingdom of Kandy was an independent monarchy in the central portion of the island Ceylon, absorbed into the British empire in 1815. The Sinhalese writer Pa'nabokke Banda, President of Dumbara, obtained a copy of the original English manuscript, had it transcribed and made a rough translation. In 1876 Le Mesurier seized the ms, retranslated it and recast it into its present form. Both the transcription and the translation are found in this work. Rare. Provenance: Frederic Austin Hayley with his bookplate on front pastedown. Author of "A treatise of the laws and customs of the Sinhalese" Colombo 1923.

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Book number: 100858

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MOLESWORTH, CAPTAIN JAMES THOMAS A.:

Dictionary Murat,hee & English, Compiled for the Government of Bombay, ... Assisted by Lieutenants Thomas and George Candy. Bombay, June, 1831.

. Thick 4to. Pp. xviii, (ii), 1162, errata (3). Two leaves (pp 727/8 and 743/44) with tear repairs. Later 19th century tan half calf over cloth boards, spine with five raised bands and red title label, speckled edges. Corners and joints expertly repaired. With gilt coat of arms of the University Club of Edinburgh on upper cover, its bookplate on front paste down and a blindstamp to the verso of title. Rare first edition, a second was published in 1857, of this comprehensive dictionary comprising some 40 000 words.James Thomas Molesworth (1795-1871) was a military officer in the service of the British East India Company and one of the most prominent lexicographers of the Marathi language. In 1825, he was stationed in Bombay and began work on a Marathi - English dictionary with the help of twin brothers George and Thomas Candy (serving as translators at the British East India Company in India) and a team of native Marathi-speaking Brahmins. Vater p. 237. Zaunmüller 269 (2nd ed.).

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NARAYANASAWMT MOODELIAR:

[HINDU MUSIC]. Tami'l. Sungeathasurabooshany. (Sangeet Swarabhushani). Chennai (Madras), J. Vilasam Press, 1908.

. Pp.(86). Text in Tamil, printed within a border, with decoration at corners. A few illustrations. Paper is very brittle, some leaves have marginal tears. Contemporary half cloth on blue paper boards, rubbed. Preface in English by D.N.M. dated Madras, 15th August 1900.Provenance: Maud MacCarthy (1882-1967), an Irish violinist, theosophist, and authority on Indian music and published poetry under the name Tandra Devi.

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Book number: 121310

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MORISON, MARGARET COTTER:

A Lonely Summer in Kashmir. London, Duckworth and Co., 1904.

. Pp. x, 281. With 51 illustrations made from photographs. One gathering loose (pp. v-x, 1-2). Publisher's cloth, rubbed, extremities lightly chipped. Old inscription on front endpaper. A beautifully illustrated work of this personal account of boating, trekking and camping in Kashmir. Margaret Cotter Morison was stationed in Kashmir with her husband, a British officer. She visited Martand Sun Temple, Pahalgam hill station, Lidder Valley, Tarsar Lake, Gulmarg town, Sonamarg hill station, Wangath temple, Dal Lake, and other places. First edition. Yakushi (1984) M253.

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Book number: 99159

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MÜLLER, MAX:

Sanskrit-Grammatik in devanágari und lateinischen Buchstaben. Auf dem Englischen übersetzt. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1868.

. Pp. xxi, (ii), 441, (1). With text in Sanskrit (Devanagari characters) and German. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with red title label, extremities lightly rubbed. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. Translated from the original English edition (London 1866) by F. Kielhorn adn G. Oppert. Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), renowned German philologist who studied Sanskrit under Bopp. He lived and worked at Oxford for many years.

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Book number: 100303

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NORBERG, MATTHIAS / FISCHERSTRÖM, MAGNUS (Resp.):

Dissertatio academica, de aqua indianis sacra. Lund, Berlingianis, 1798.

. 4to. Pp. 10. Disbound.

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Book number: 120329

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NORBERG, MATTHIAS / GENBERG, CARL OL. (Resp.):

Dissertatio de trinitate Indiana. Lund, Berlingianis, 1797.

. 4to. Pp. 14. Disbound. A dissertation about Indian "Trimurti". Marklin 85.

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Book number: 120414

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