TARKARATNA, RçMNçTH:

... çryâ Lahari (containing 90 verses). Calcutta, Printed and published by B.N. Nandy, at the Valmiki Press, 1896.

. Pp. (vi), 222. Text in Sanskrit, also with title and dedication in English. Contemporary half cloth, spine gilt with title label (faded), lightly rubbed. Bookplate.

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Book number: 100501

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THATCHER, PHYLLIS:

Soma and Seitha of Ceylon. Written and Illustrated by Phyllis Thatcher. London, The Zenith Press, ca 1937.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 29, (3). With charming colour illustrations. Original pictorial paper boards, with light wear along edges. Oxidation to staples. A rare children's book that tells the story of Soma and Setha in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). We assume the author was a missionary because of the content of the book.

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Book number: 121476

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TRIMES, HENRY (Compiler):

A Systematic Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to or growing wild in Ceylon. With the vernacular names and with references to Thwaites's "Enumeration". Colombo, George J.A. Skeen, Government Printer, 1885.

. Pp. (iv), 137. Original printed paper boards, cloth spine. Loose in binding. Bookplates. Contains 1071 different species. The vernacular names are given in Sinhalese and Tamil, and in some cases also in English. ("Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1885"). Scarce.

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Book number: 121305

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[SANSKRIT] TULLBERG, OTTO FREDRIK (Editor):

Malavika et Agnimitra. Drama indicum Kalidasae adscriptum. Textum primus edidit, in latinum covertit, varietatem scripturae et annotatinoes adiecit. Bonn ad Rhenum, H.B. Koenig, 1840.

. Pp. (iv), x, 108. With text in Sanskrit (pp. 1-95) and title, preface, contents and "Varietas scriptturae" in Latin. Occasionally some minor staining. Contemporary blind-stamped red paper binding, ruled in gilt, lightly rubbed, new spine. This is the first western printing of "M‹lavik‹ et Agnimitra" an Indian poetical and dramatic play written by Kalidasa. It is based on some events of the reign of Pushyamitra Shunga. Tullberg was a Swedish orientalist and musician. Zenker BO ii, 3338.

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Book number: 34092

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UJFALVY, KARL EUGEN VON:

Aus dem westlichen Himalaja. Erlebnisse und Forschungen. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1884.

. Pp. xxiv, 330. With five maps (of which four folding in colour), twenty plates, four folding tables and 102 illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial red cloth richly gilt. A beautiful copy of the first edition. A narrative of a scientific expedition in the Karakoram mountain range and the Baltoro glacier in 1881 by Karl Eugen von Ujfalvy, an Hungarian - Austrian linguist. He visited Srinagar, Baltistan, and Dardistan. It's mainly an anthropological treatise describing the inhabitants along the journey, and their customs, language, religion, commerce, industries, art and culture, etc. Aschoff 1944. Yakushi (1984) U08.

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Book number: 99760

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Keywords: South Asia, himlaya, himlaja, pakistan, kashmir, india, karakoram, Little Tibet, afghanistan, mongolia, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage,

VENEDEY, J.:

Engelska Ostindien. Hindustans natur, folk, historia och seder. Sthlm 1858. (and "Nyheter från alla världsdelar" Sthlm 1858. 80 pp.)

. Pp. (ii), 318. With one map and 24 steel engravings (2 with slight marginal stain). With library stamps. Half morocco gilt, corners sl. bumped. A Swedish translation from the German by Kiellman-Göransson. A good copy. BOUND WITH: "Nyheter från alla världsdelar" Sthlm 1858. 80 pp.

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Book number: 19105

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WEBER, DR. ALBRECHT / PERTZ G.H. (Editor):

Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek. Part one: Verzeichniss der Sanskrit-Handschriften. Berlin 1853.

. 4to. Pp. xxiv, 481. With 6 coloured plates of manuscripts. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt with four raised bands and title label. Bookplate (Upsala University). A handsome copy. Zenker BO ii, 5828.

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Book number: 14130

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WELLBY, CAPTAIN MONTAGU SINCLAIR:

Through Unknown Tibet. London 1898.

. Pp. xiv, 440. With portrait frontispiece, 4 folding lithographic charts, 76 illustrations in the text (of which 25 full page). Original pictorial cloth, gilt, worn, recased with new endpapers. Marginal stain to frontispiece and title page. St.o.t. (blind). First edition of this narrative of Wellby and Malcolm's journey across Tibet and northern China in 1896. They found a more northerly route to Peking than that of Bower. The journey started at Lucknow, continued to Simla and finished in the wilds of Waziristan. Cordier BS 2922. Marshall 869. Yakushi (1984) W50.

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Book number: 22027

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WILSON, A.:

The Abode of Snow. Observations on a journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the upper valleys of the Himâlaya. Second edition. Edinburgh & London 1876.

. Pp. xxviii, 436. With one coloured front and one large map. Contemporary red half calf on marbled boards, slightly rubbed. This is a narrative of the author's journey in 1873 from Simla to Kashmir through Shingo La, Paduon, Penze La, Dras, and Zoji La. When he reached Spiti he was refused to go further and he comments on the reasons for unwillingness of the Tibetans to allow foreigners to enter their country. It contains valuable ethnological observations. Cordier BS 2917. Yakushi W 87. Marshall 839.

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Book number: 13040

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Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asiatica, orient, east, asien, south asia, east india, central asia & india, tibet, thibet, caucasus, himalaya, kashmir, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, inde, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen, zentralasien

S. FRANCISCI XAVERII.

Monita et exempla. Trichinopoli (South India), typis Collegii S. Joseph, 1897.

. Small 4to. Pp. 220, ii (Index). With engraved frontispiece. Original red calf, covers and spine ruled in black, title lettered in gilt on upper cover, g.e., upper corners worn. The teachings of Francis Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He devoted most of his life to missions in Asia.

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Book number: 100768

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YATES, WILLIAM:

A Grammar of the Sunscrit Language, on a New Plan. Calcutta, Printed and sold by the Baptist Mission Press, 1820.

. Pp. viii, v-xxviii, 426. Missing last leaf; page 427 and the errata. Small wormholes running through the text. Expertly rebound in half calf (by Bernard Middleton). With inscription by the author. First edition. William Yates (1792-1845), British baptist missionary and renowned linguist who first came to India in 1815 where he worked together with William Carey at Serampore. In 1817 he moved with the Baptist Missionary Society to Calcutta where he established a school and was involved in building chapels and other religious establishments in Calcutta and its vicinity. Yates composed many linguistic works and manuals of Sanskrit and Hindustani as well as handbooks of natural science and history for Indians. He also translated the Bible into Bengalee. Vater p. 333.

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Book number: 100214

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