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1. ABEL-REMUSAT, JEAN-PIERRE: Mlanges asiatiques, ou choix de morceaux critiques et de mmoires relatifs aux religions, aux sciences, aux coutumes, a lhistoire et a la
gographie des nations orientales. Two volumes. Paris 182526.
960
Pp. (iv), viii, 456; (iv), iv, 428. With two plates (not called for in Cordier, Lust or Lwendahl).
Contemporary marbled paper covered boards, calf spines richly decorated and lettered in gilt,
marbled edges. First few leaves of second volume with light marginal stain. Occasionally some
minor browning. An interesting and valuable compilation of various essays and articles written
by Abel-Remusat treating the beleifs or religions, customs, languages and history of China and
other Asian countries. Abel-Remusat was a medical student who became enchanted by China
and taught himself the fundaments of Chinese by using Fourmonts work, and became the protg of Silvestre de Sacy. He was appointed the first professor of Chinese in Europe, at the College de France, in 1814 which he held until his death. Cordier BS 68. Lust 100. Lwendahl 850.

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2. [AMERICAN COLONY IN JERUSALEM]. WHITING, JOHN D. / LARSSON,

HOL LARS (later LEWIS ) (Photographer): Samaritanernas pskfest i ord och bild. Bibliska

blodsoffer i vra dagar. Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1917.

500

Tall 4to. Pp. 55, (3). With 80 photographic plates. Original papercovered boards, calf spine
with title label. Upper cover decorated in gilt. Bookplate. Comprises illustrations from Samaria
including views, people and ceremony scenes from the Holy Mountain of Gerissim photographed by the Swede Lewis Larsson. The accompanied text is written by John Whiting. They
both belonged to the utopian Christian sect called the American Colony formed by religious
pilgrims who emigrated to Jerusalem from the US and Sweden. The text has been translated
into Swedish from the authors manuscript (in English) by Ernst Klein. We cannot find the
original text in book form but Whiting wrote an article which seems to correspond to this work:
The last Israelitish Blood Sacrifice: How the vanishing Samaritans celebrate the Passover on
sacred Mount Gerizim which appeared in the National Geographic in January 1920 (volume
37, no.1). Prefaces by Selma Lagerlf and Sven Hedin. Published in a limited edition of 300
copies, of which this is no. 32. A beautiful copy.

3. ANDERSEN (ANDERSON) AENEAS : Berttelse om ngelska beskickningen til Chi-

na, under Lord Macartney. Stockholm, Johan Pfeiffer, 1796.

220

Pp. (vi), 250. Slightly later half calf, spine richly gilt and with red title label. Old ownership
signature on free front endpaper. An abridged Swedish translation of A Narrative of the British
Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794. Based on the German edition Erlangen
1795, translated by Samuel dmann. At end an appendix including a narrative by a Catholic
missionary about his imprisonment in China, translated from the German (1794). Cf Cordier
BS 2386.

4. ASAFI, MOHAMMED: The Story of Jamal and Jalal. An Illuminated Manuscript in the

Library of Uppsala University by K.V. Zettersten and C.J. Lamm. Uppsala 1948.

160

Large 4to. Pp. 32 and 36 full page illustrations of which 4 coloured. Unopened copy in original
printed wrappers, in mint condition. The Persian manuscript of this illuminated copy of The
Story of Jamal and Jalal is preserved in the Library of Uppsala University. In 1829 it was presented to the Library by Count C.G. Lwenhielm who had previously been resident minister in
Constantinople. Here is a detailed description of the work; by Zettersten for the philological
details and Lamm for the analyses of the miniatures.

5. AUDRAN, PROSPER GABRIEL: Grammaire hbraique en tableaux. Paris, Eberhart,

1805.

280
Oblong 4to. Pp. (iv) and 12 tables (of which 11 double page). Contemporary boards, worn.
Endpapers and first and last leaves stained. First edition of a scarce Hebrew grammar by a
French lawyer and professor of Hebrew at the College of Paris.

6. BACKHOUSE, JAMES: A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies. London,

Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1843.

750

Pp. xviii, 569, appendixes pp. cxliv. With three large folding maps by James Wyld, 15 full page
etchings and many illustrations in the text. The maps are of the world, Tasmania and New
South Wales. Later half green calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and title label, extremities
somewhat rubbed. Bookplate. Some light foxing. This narrative is based on the authors journal
kept during his six years of travels. He visited most of the Australian colonies and Van Diemens
Land (Tasmania), made natural history observations and collected a variable herbarium which
was sent to Kew. The appendices include accounts of prison conditions and letters to the government about the plight of the Aborigines. Ferguson 3558. Mendelssohn p.60.

7. BARTH, HEINRICH: Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a

Journal of an Expedition Undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.s Government, in the

Years 18491855. Five volumes. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts,
1857.
4800

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Pp. xxxvi, 578, adv. 26; xii, 676; xii, 635; xiv, 641, adv. 26; xii, 694, (2). With 15 folding maps, 60
chromolithographed plates protected with tissue guards and numerous illustrations in the text.
Small library stamp on verso of title pages and in a few more places. Half calf on green cloth,
spines with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Spines slightly faded. First English edition, published simultaneously with the German (Gotha 18578), of one of the most important
works on African exploration.
In 1850 Barth, German geographer and historian, joined the British expedition headed by James
Richardson setting out from Tripoli across Sahara. The main goal for the expedition was to
explore Lahe Chad in sub-Saharan Central Africa. Richardson died not far from Lake Chad and
Barth was then designated as leader of the expedition. Barth was different from other explorers
because he was interested in the history and culture of the African peoples and he scrupulosly
studied the topography, history, languages and resources of the countries he visited. This narrative contains a detailed record of his travels and of the countries and tribes along the route
with a special interest in regional economics and the impact of slave trade. Barth made detailed
maps of the area. Abbey Travel 274. Gay 207. Hilmy i, p. 53.

8. BEAVER, CAPTAIN PHILIP: African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish

a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year
1792. With a Brief Notice of the Neighbouring Tribes, Soil, Productions, &c. London, C.
& R. Baldwin, 1805.
1750
4to. Pp. (viii), xvi, 500. With one large folding map Nautical map intended for the use of colonial undertakings (with small tear at fold) and 2 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, nicely
rebacked with original red title label, corners rubbed. With some minor staining and a few leaves
with dust-soiling. First edition. result of an ill-contrived and badly executed, though well
intended, expedition was proposed and undertaken by a few gentlemen, with a view to ascertain
whether or not it were practicable to cultivate tropical productions on the coast of Africa, by
means of its free natives (preface). Gay 3196.

9. [BEIRUT IMPRINT]. Linguae syriacae grammatica et chrestomathiola cum glossario

scholis accommodata. Auctore H.G.S.J. Berythi Phoeniciorum, typographia Pp. Soc. Jesu,
1890.
860
Pp. 88 (4); 54 (5); 36, (2). Comprising three parts; grammatica, chrestomathia and glossarium.
Contemporary half vellum, title label on spine, rubbed, short split to upper part of front hinge.
Mission stamp on title. A scarce work on the Syriac language published by the Jesuits in Beirut,
probably at St. Josephs University.

10. BENNETT, GEORGE: Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia: Being Observations

Principally on the Animal and Vegetable Productions of New South Wales, New Zealand
and some of the Austral Islands. London, John van Voorst, 1860.
600
Pp. xii, 456. With 7 hand coloured lithographs, one tinted lithograph and many woodcut illustrations in the text. The plates are by W. Fitch (four lithographed botanical), Georg French
Angas and Joseph Wolf. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt, spine faded and rubbed. George
Bennett was a surgeon and member of the Medical Faculty at the University of Sydney. First
edition of an interesting account devoted to the natural history of Australia including information about marine biology, ornithology and plants. Ferguson 6929. Wood p. 231.

11. BENSON, ROBERT: Sketches of Corsica; or, a Journal Written During a Visit to that
Island, in 1823. With an Outline of its History, and Specimens of the Language and Poetry
of the People. London 1825.
500
Pp. (vi), 195, (5). With wood engraved vignette on title, four sepia plates and one hand coloured
aquatint. Some light offsetting from the plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled and
lettered in gilt, upper joint weakened, lightly rubbed, joints expertly restored. Faint traces of
removed bookplate on front paste down. First edition. Robert Benson accompanied a group

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of commissioners to Corsica with the aim to carry into effect the bequests of the Corsican patriot General Pasquale Paoli (17251807) who spent his last years in exile in Britain. Includes
specimens of Corsican poetry. Abbey Travel 76. Lowndes i, p. 156. (This interesting work is
spoken of with much approbation by Sir Walter Scott in his life of Napoleon).

12. [BIBLIA HEBRAICA]. NISSEL, JOHAN GEORG: Sacra Biblia Hebraea, ex opti-

mis editionibus diligenter expressa, & form, literis versuumque distinctione commendata.
Lugd. Bat., Typis Nisselianis, 1662.
600
With engraved extra Hebrew title page (narrowly cut and with a tear). Lvs. (iv), (422) + one
blank leaf. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, spine ends chipped with small loss at foot, hinges
weak and lower joint partly cracked. Occasionally some minor staining. Some underlinings and
marginal annotations. Old ownership signatures and annotations on endpapers. The last leaf of
the preliminaries contains a laudatory poem in Arabic with Latin translation by Petraeus. Edited
by Allard Uchtmanns, who also wrote the preface. Based on Stephanus Bible with reference to
the editions of Bomberg and Menasseh Ben Israel. Darlow & Moule 5133. Smitskamp PO 343.

13. BILLINGS, JOSEPH: Viaggio fatto per ordine dell imperatrice di Russia Caterina

II. nel nord della Russia Asiatica, nel mare Glaciale, nel mare dAnadyr, e sulla costa NordOuest dellAmerica, dal 1785 fino al 1794. Two volumes. Milano, Sonzogno e Comp., 1816.

680
12mo. Pp. xxiv, 288; 324. With 8 engraved plates, of which 5 coloured. Contemporary half calf,
flat spines ruled and lettered in gilt, light wear to front joint of second volume. A few leaves with
some light waterstain (volume two). Ownership stamp (Pietro Odescalchi). An Italian edition of
Joseph Billings account of the Russian expeditions to the Chukotskiy peninsula, the Aleutian
Islands and to the coast of Alaska, translated into Italian by Luigi Bossi. (Raccolta de Viaggi,
tomi xxixxii). Cat. Russica 1307. Howgego B96.

14. BIRD, ISABELLA LUCY (Mrs. Bishop): The Golden Chersonese and the Way
Thither. London, John Murray, 1883.
650
Pp. xviii, 384, adv. 32. With two coloured maps on one sheet, 10 full page wood cut illustrations
and 6 textual illustrations. Publishers pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. First edition. Isabella Bird
(18321904) travelled all over the world and her accounts became very popular, probably the
most loved Victorian lady traveller. This voyage covering the last part of her 1879 journey to
the Far East took her to the Malay Peninsula, Hong Kong, Canton and Saigon. Her account
written in the form of letters to her sister vividly describes the places visited and her experiences along the route. A lovely copy. Cordier BI 1471. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 8183.

15. BOTERO, GIOVANNI: Le relationi universali di Giovanni Botero Benese, divise in

quattro parti. Venetia, Giorgio Angelieri, 1596.
4800
4to. Contains: Parts i:12; ii, iii and iv in one volume. Pp. (xxx), 192, 80, 193240; (xvi), 152;
183, table (9); (xvi), 79. In our copy the second volume of part one (i:2) is bound between libros
iii and iv of part one. The second part is printed by Giacomo Vincenti and the third by Gio.
Battista Ussio. With engraved vignettes on title pages and four double page engraved maps of
Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The map of Africa is strengthened at inner margins, with a
hole, and faded in a few places. The map of America is browned (due to paper quality), with tear
at fold and another small tear without any loss, frayed at outer margins. The other two maps
are fine. Some old annotations and underlinings in ink in the first part. Some staining and age
browning, more severe in places. Contemporary vellum, stained, with title in manuscript on
spine. Bookplate. Early edition of Boteros famous work; a political and geographical description
of different countries around the known world at the time. First published in 159193, reissued
many times and translated into several different languages. Giovanni Botero (15331617), Jesuit
and Italian ecclesiastic was secretary of Carlo Baromeo, the Duke of Savoy, and considered to
be one of the greatest economist of his time. Borba de Moraes i, 101. Index Aurel. 122726. Cf
Sabin ii, 3370 (not this edition).

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16. [BURMA MISSIONARY GAME] . The American Baptist Missionary Union. Copy-

right, 1885, by Fred T. Bailey.

3600

The game comprises twelve books of four cards each, and one additional card. With one folded
sheet with directions (strengthened at folds). Each card gives the name among whom the mission
was started; the place; the year; and the name of the Pioneer missionary. With text in English
on recto and in Burmese on verso of the cards.
The American Baptist Missionary Union was first established in 1814. The missionary work
started among the Burmese in Rangoon and gradullay extended to other tribes and nations. At
this time (1885) there were 14 stations in Burma, 6 in Assam, 12 among the Telugus, 5 among
the Chinese, and 4 in Japan. The game is complete and kept in a special made cloth box. Some
staining but overall a great copy of this fascinating game, which must be extremely rare to find
complete.

17. BURTON, RICHARD F.: [Arabic title]. The Kasdah (Couplets) of Hj Abd Al-

Yazdi. A Lay of the Higher Law. Translated and Annotated by his Friend and Pupil, F.B.
London, H.J. Cook, 1900.
860
Small 4to. Lvs 6, (2); 42. Text printed on one side only. Publishers black cloth lettered in gilt,
upper edges gilt, others untrimmed. Faint traces of erased signature on title. Third edition,
limited to 250 copies. Sir Richard Burton wrote this highly praised Oriental poem already in
1857 under his nom-de-plume Hj Abd Al-Yazdi but it was not published until 1880 by Bernard Quaritch in London. Preface by Isabel Burton.

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18. CARRUTHERS, DOUGLAS: Unknown Mongolia. A Record of Travel and Explora-

tion in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria. Two volumes. London 1914.

900

Pp. xviii, 318; x, 319660. With two frontispieces, 6 maps of which 4 folding, and 120 plates
with many photographic illustrations. Two of the maps are loosely inserted. Publishers blue
cloth, slightly different in colour. Second edition (first 1913) of this classic work on travel and
exploration in Mongolia for which the author received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1912. Douglas Carruthers was accompanied by J.H. Miller and M.P. Price on this
expedition in 191011 which went through southern Siberia to the Mongolian Frontiers and
the Yenisei river basin. Contains detailed descriptions of the various tribes and people living
along the route as well as about the geography, political situation, natural history and big game
hunting. The three coloured maps are compiled from Carruthers original surveys.
Provenience: Joel Eriksson, Swedish missionary 191338 in Mongolia, and Sven Hedins guide
in the area in 1929. Czech, Asian, p. 45. Yakushi (1984) C 40.

19. [CHINESE WATER COLOUR PAINTINGS]. [An Album with 12 hand painted illustrations on Chinese paper]. China, probably early 19th century.
1800
Oblong 4to. Size: 37 x 24 cm. Comprises 12 aquarelles depicting scenes of different kinds of
traditional Chinese gatherings such as receptions, parades and ceremonies painted on Chinese
paper and mounted with a fine silk border. Each scene is carefully executed and painted in
astonishing bright colours with delicate details of faces, textiles, tools, instruments, etc. The
paper is very brittle and one of the plates have a loss (ca 6 x 10 cm) and a few more illustrations
have small tears without loss. Original silk brocade binding. Its a lovely copy of a delicate and
expressive work.

20. CLARKSON, WILLIAM: A Grammar of the Gujarti language. Bombay, American

Mission Press, T. Graham, 1847.

700

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

21. COBBOLD, REV. ROBERT HENRY: Pictures of the Chinese. Drawn by Themselves.

London, John Murray, 1860.

580

Pp. vi, 219. With frontispiece, 34 full page drawing illustrations and many textual illustrations
(of which 19 full page). Near contemporary half calf on marbled boards, somewhat rubbed. Old
ownership signature. Some minor staining. First edition of a charming work about different
Chinese professions each accompanied with a pen-and-ink etching by native artist. Treats the
diviner; street singer; the collector of paper scraps; the lantern-seller; the blind diviner; the
needle maker; the opium-smoker; street beggar, etc. The author served as Archdeacon at the
treaty port of Ningpo for a period of eight years. Cordier BS 90.

22. COLQUHOUN, ARCHIBLAD ROSS: Amongst the Shans. With Upwards of Fifty

Whole-Page Illustrations and an Historical Sketch of the Shans by Holt S. Hallett. Preceded
by an Introduction on the Cradle of the Shan Race by Terrien de Lacouperie. London, Field
& Tuer, 1885.
1500
Pp. lv, 392, adv. (4), adv. 24. With one folding coloured map, frontispiece and 54 full page illustrations. Some minor fingersoiling. Publishers green cloth lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed,
spine ends very lightly bumped. Binding slightly shaken but still firm. First edition of this scarce
title of the territory of the Shan, preceded by Colquhouns first work Across Chrys (1883)
mainly devoted to the possible railway routes through China. Archibald Colquhoun (1848

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1914), a British explorer and Gold Medaillist Royal Geographic Society had been employed
to explore the possibility of railway routes between British Burma, Southwest China, the Shan
States and Thailand. This work of great ethnological interest comprises valuable information
about culture, customs and geography of the Shan people as well as of various hill tribes of
Burma. Includes also a major part about Chiengmai in Thailand. Cordier BI 629. Herbert:
Burma, World Bibliographical Series, vol. 12, no. 416.

23. COUVREUR, SRAPHIN: Dictionnaire francais-chinois contenant les expressions les

plus usites de la langue mandarine. Ho Kien Fou, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique,
1884.
1400
Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), xx, 1007, (4). With text in two columns, including Chinese characters. Contemporary half calf, spine with four raised bands, richly gilt and title lettered in gilt, upper edges
gilt. First edition. Sraphin Couvreur (18351919), French sinologist and Jesuit, came to China
in 1870. He spent the greater part of his life at the Jesuit residence at Sien-hsien where he was
professor at the Seminary. He complied several Chinese dictionaries and translated many of the
Chinese classical works. Couvreur was the creator of the EFEO Chinese transcription method
which was used in most of the French speaking world to transliterate Chinese until the middle
of 20th century when it was replaced by Hanyu Pinyin. Cordier BS 1617.

24. CUNNINGHAM, PETER MILLER: Two years in New South Wales Comprising

Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; of its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History &c.&c. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Two volumes in one. London, Henry Colburn, 1827.
750
Large 12mo. Pp. xvi, 346; iiiviii, 336. With one large folding map (with tear repaired on
verso). Later half green calf, spine gilt with four raised bands and red title label, speckled edges,
extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Cunningham was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and spent four
years in New South Wales. His work is considered to be one of the best decriptions of the life
and manners in the colony at this time. This edition is enlarged and includes a map not found
in the first edition. Ferguson 1110. Kress C. 1869.

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25. CUST, ROBERT NEEDHAM: Linguistic and Oriental Essays. Written from the year

1846 to 1878. London, Trbner & Co., Ludgate Hill, 1880.

200

Pp. xii, 484, adv. (8). With one folding plate with two maps of India. Publishers cloth, stamped
in gold and brown. A collection of essays on Oriental languages, especially in India, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt.

26. DANIELL, WILLIAM & CAUNTER, HOBART: The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in

India. Volumes IVII (all published). London, Bull & Sowerby, Churton, Tilt and Whittaker,
183440.
3600
First edition of the complete series in seven volumes. Contains 153 steel engraved plates, all
protected by tissue guards, from drawings by William Daniell (vol.ivi) and by Finden from
sketches by Bacon and Meadows Taylor (vol. vii). Publishers embossed leather, spines and covers blindstamped and richly decorated in gilt, g.e., glazed yellow end papers. A contemporary
presentation set; each volume inscribed on first blank to John Lionel Blakiston from his mother.
William Daniell (17691838) travelled in India together with his uncle Thomas Daniell for
eight years, sketching and drawing, and they produced a number of highly desirable aquatint
illustrated works of the country including the renowned Oriental Scenery (17951808).
Comprises:
Volume 1 (1834) with 25 engravings of Madras, the Ganges, Benares, the Taj Mahal and Agra.
Volume 2 (1835) with 22 engravings of Calcutta, Lucknow, Delhi and into the Himalaya.
Volume 3 (1836) with 22 engravings of Bombay.
Volume 4 (1837) with 22 engravings of Moghul Emperors.
Volume 5 (1838) with 22 engravings of Hindu and Muslim architecture.
Volume 6 Subtitled Caunters and Daniells Oriental Annual for 1839 published on the
occasion of Daniells death, with 22 engravings of Eastern Legends.
Volume 7 (1840) with 18 engravings
of Tales, Legends and Historical Romances by Thomas
33.
Bacon.
Some light foxing, affecting the frontispieces and a few other plates, but overall a very fine copy,
extremely rare to find in the complete series and with a contemporary presentation.

27. DAS, SARAT CHANDRA: An Introduction to the Grammar of the Tibetan Language

with the Texts of SITUhI SUM=rTAGs, Dag-je Sal-Wai M-Long and SITUhI SHALLN. Two volumes in one. Darjeeling 1915.
1400
4to. Pp. (x), 2, (2), xxvii, (1), 62; (2), 55, vi; 2, 88, 5, (1); 2, 28; 36. With 7 plates. Original cloth.
With the ownership stamp of A. Foucher, noted Buddhist scholar. Some light spotting to a few
pages. First edition. Das based this work on Csoma de Kros grammar first published in 1834.
He has supplemented it with materials drawn from Situ Sum-Tag, the exhaustive commentary
on Thon-mi Sam Bhotas Sum-chu-pa and Tag-jug-pa. On Das second visit to Tibet in 188182
he found a manuscript copy of Situ-Sum-Tag at Tashi-Lhunpo, in the library of Sengchen Lama,
Prime Minister of the Tashi Lama. In 1894 permission was obtained to publish the work at state
expense because of its importance to students of Tibetan literature. However, not until 1911
he secured a block-print copy of Situ-Sum-tag from Ekai Kawaguchi, the well-known Japanese
Tibetan scholar and traveller. Kawaguchi revised the book in proof because Das himself was
then unabled to do it due to weakened eyesight. Yakushi (1984) D38.

28. DEVA, DNA NTHA: Hindustn Grammar. Calcutta, printed by Bhaktesswar New-

gee at the Bharata Mitra Press, 60 Cross Street, Burra Bazar, 1886.

600

Pp. (iv), viii, 225, errata (4). Modern half calf, spine lettered in gilt. Affected by wormholes
throughout. First edition. Comprises the orthography, the etymology, and the syntax of Hindustani. A rare work.

29. DU PONCEAU, PETER STEPHEN (PIERRE TIENNE) & MORRONE, JOSEPH & DE LA PALUN: A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese Sys-

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tem of Writing, in a Letter to John Vaughan, esq To which are Subjoined, a Vocabulary of
the Cochinchinese Language by Father Joseph Morrone, R.C. Missionary at Saigon, And
a Cochinchinese and Latin Dictionary, in Use Among the R.C. Missions in Cochinchina.
Philadelphia, for the American Philosophical Society, 1838.
550
Pp. (ii), xxxii, 375, (1). With 10 lithographed plates of Chinese characters. Original cloth backed
boards, printed paper label on spine, small damaged to upper cover. First edition. Du Ponceau
published many philological works even though he was a lawyer by profession. He was elected
President of the American Philosophical Society in 1828, and was the founder of the Law
Academy in Philadelphia in 1821. (Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of
the American Phil. Society. Vol. ii. ). Cordier BS 173940 & BI 228182. Lust 982. Vater p.18.

30. DUBEUX, LOUIS & VALMONT, V.: Tartarie, Bloutchistan, Boutan et Npal. AND:
RAYMOND, XAVIER: Afghanistan. Paris, Frres, 1848.
300
Pp. (iv), 388 + pp. 79. With 24 engraved plates and two folding maps of Turkestan and Afghanistan (loosely inserted). Uncut and unopened copy in original printed wrappers, spine chipped.
Kept in special made paper folder. First edition. A description of the countries devoted to the
history, language, religion, customs, literature, climate, topography, minerals, etc. based on
Hamilton, Kirkpatrick and others. Ten of the plates belong to the part about Afghanistan.
Included in LUnivers. Historie et description de tous les peuples. Yakushi (1984) D166.
31. [EHRENSVRD, CARL AUGUST]: Resa til Italien, 1780, 1781, 1782. Skrifven 1782
i Stralsund. Ny uplaga. Stockholm, C. Deleen, 1819.
2900
4to. Pp. (vi), 84. With 37 hand coloured engraved plates (with 38 illustrations). Contemporary
half calf, flat spine ruled in gilt and with red title label, lightly rubbed, corners worn. Small
repair to upper right corner of title. Copy of Baltzar Cronstrand (17941876), the founder of
the University College of Arts Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Second illustrated edition of
Ehrensvrds famous and beautiful account of his journey to Italy, first published in 1786. Count
Carl August Ehrensvrd (17451800) was an Admiral of the Fleet but also an art historian,
writer, artist and architect. He travelled to Italy to study the landscape, people, and especially
the art and architeture of the classical antiquity. He visited Turin, Milan, Parma, Bologna,
Florence, Rome, Terracina, Naples, Sicily, and many more places. The beautiful hand coloured
illustrations depicting landscapes, people and costumes are drawn by Ehrensvrd himself and
engraved by Elias Martin. This edition was published by Fredric Boye and the original etchings
were used. Lindberg, Swedish books 52.

32. [EKEBERG, CARL GUSTAV]: Capitaine Carl Gustav Ekebergs ostindiska resa, ren
1770 och 1771. Beskrefven uti bref til Kongl. Svenska Vet. Academiens Secreterare. Stockholm, Henr. Fougt, 1773.
1500
Pp. (viii), 170, (1). With one folding engraved map and 5 folding engraved plates. Title page
restored, one letter missing. Traces of old wrappers on verso of last leaf. First edition. Ekeberg made several voyages in the service of the Swedish East India Company during the years
174278. He was considered one of the most competent seamen of his time and is known for
introducing more human treatment of the staff on board. In Sumatra he released three slaves
of which two survived and accompanied him back to Sweden. He became a member of the
Academy of Science in 1761 and contributed with several dissertations and essays. This account of Ekebergs voyage to China in 177071 on the ship Finland is written in the form
of letters to Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, secretary at the Royal Academy of Science. It contains
interesting descriptions of the Cape of Good Hope, Canton (Guangzhou), Whampoa, Hainan
and Sumatra. The map Charta fver Cap Godt Hopp and the beautiful plates are drawn by
Ekeberg himself. Cordier BS 2098. Lwendahl 569.
[BOUND WITH]: WALLENBERG, JACOB: Min son p Galejan, eller en ostindisk resa,
innehllande allahanda blckhornskram, samlade p skeppet Finland, som afseglade ifrn
Gtheborg i Dec. 1769, och terkom dersammastdes i Junii 1771. Parts iiii. Stockholm, Em.
Bruzelius, 1819.

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Pp. (iv), 3 88; (ii), 82; (ii), 53. Small repair to verso of title, nicely done. Fourth edition (first
1781) of this popular and humorously written account by the chaplain of the same East India
voyage as Carl Gustav Ekeberg commanded (previous work). Bound together, Wallenberg first,
in contemporary half calf spine decorated and lettered in gilt, boards lightly rubbed. Binding
slightly shaken. Bookplate, one partly erased. Old annotation on title page. Cf Cordier BS
2099. Cf Lwendahl 625.

33. FORTUNE, ROBERT: A Journey to the Tea Countries of China; Including Sung-Lo
and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Companys Tea Plantations in
the Himalaya Mountains. London, J. Murray, 1852.
1200
Pp. xvi (incl. extra title), 398, adv. 32. With extra pictorial title printed in red, one map coloured
in outline, 2 full page plates, of which 2 half tone lithographs and further 13 wood cut illustrations in the text. Publishers pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt. Bookplate (Baron Northwick).
A wonderful fresh copy of the first edition (first issue). Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and
traveller, mainly known for introducing tea plants from China to India on behalf of the British
East India Company. He visited many remote areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces
in China during his visits in 1842 and 1848. Besides collecting plants and seeds of the tea-shrub
he also discovered many other shrubs and trees. His account contains interesting descriptions
of Hong Kong and China, including information of customs, language, missionary activities,
opium consumption, tea cultivation, etc. Abbey Travel 529. Cordier BS 2116.

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34. FRANCKE, AUGUST HERMANN: Sketch of Ladakhi grammar. In Cooperation

with other Moravian Missionaries. Calcutta 1901.

600

Pp. (vi), 63. Interleaved copy. Modern marbled boards, calf spine with red title label. First
edition. This grammar, probably the first of its kind, was revised by Sir Grierson who also
corrected the terminology. Francke was a Moravian missionary-scholar stationed in Leh for
several years. Includes an Appendix containing idioms and useful sentences with literal translation. (Published as Extra No. 2 to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. LXX, part
I, 1901). Cordier BS 2938.

35. FREY, HELEN D.: Annamites et extrme-occidentaux. Recherches sur lorigine des

langues. Paris, Librairie Hachette et cie., 1894.

680

Pp. (iv), 272. With double page hand coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, of which one double
page, 2 coloured lithographs and many illustrations in the text, of which 5 double page and 29
full page. Our copy has one illustration Mnagres Tonkinoises a la rivire that is not mentioned in the list of ills. Blue paper covered boards, red calf spine with title label, somewhat
worn. Some browning to the text due to the paper quality. First edition of an interesting work
about the Ammanese, their language and culture. The nice illustrations are by deux Tonkinois.
Cordier BI 284.

36. GABELENTZ, GEORG VON DER: Chinesische Grammatik mit Ausschluss des
niederen Stiles und der heutigen Umgangssprache. Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1881.
800
Tall 8vo. Pp. xxx, 552 including titles in Chinese and German. With 3 plates. Original green
cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Contains: 1. Einleitung u. Allgemeiner Theil; 2. Analytisches System
and ; 3. Synthetisches System. First edition of the best and most complete grammar of Classical
Chinese. Besides the analysis of the parts of speech it also gives explanations on their syntactic
function (subject, predicate, object, etc) and the structural principles of the language (inversions,
modalities). Cordier BS 1679.
Added to this copy: Zur Grammatischen Beurteilung des Chinesischen by G. von der Gabelentz. (erschienen in Techmers Internationalen Zetschrift fr allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft,
Band I, Leipzig, 1884, Johann Ambrosius Barth). Comprises 9 pages of typed text.

37. GAGNIER, JEAN: La vie de Mahomet; traduite et compile de lAlcoran, des traditions authentiques de la Sonna, et des meilleurs auteurs arabes. Three volumes. Amsterdam,
Wetsteins & Smith, 1748.
800
12mo. Pp. (iv), lii, table (vi), 383; (x), 343; (x), 406, table (52). Including half titles. Contemporary
full calf, spines with five raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with title labels, red edges,
lightly rubbed. Top of spine (vol. one) slightly chipped. A French translation of the famous
work on the Prophet which for a long time was considered the best western biography on the
subject. Jean Garnier was professor in oriental languages at Oxford. Bibl. de Silvestre de Sacy,
i, 1438. Thonnelier, Catalogue de la Bibl. Orientale, no. 517.

38. [GALLIOT, CHARLES]: Dissertation sur le Dieu Srapis, O lon examine lOrigine,

les Attributs & le Culte de cette Divinit. A Amsterdam. Paris, J. Barbou, 1760. 

350

Pp. 78. Uncut as issued in original queries. Unbound. First edition. Srapis was the official god
of Egypt and Greece created by the Greek pharaoh Ptolemy I. He was hoping that the common
religious base would unify the two peoples. Srapis became very popular and his most famous
temple was the Serapeum of Alexandria. Qurard iii, 248.

39. GERINI, GEROLAMO EMILIO: Researches on Ptolemys Geography of Eastern

Asia (Further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago). Published in Conjunction with the Royal
Geographical Society. London 1909.
560
Pp. xxii, 945. With two large folding maps in colour and 9 folding leaves with tables (numb. i
xi). Contemporary half calf, spine with four raised bands, decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers,

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silk covered boards rubbed. First edition of this impressive work by Colonel Gerini, an Italian
born, who made a military career in Thailand where he lived for many years. He was one of the
founders of The Siam Society in Bangkok. Gerini worked for many years with this monograph.
He suggested a new Ptolemys latitudes and longitudes conversion table based on his own calculations which involved philological, geographical, ethnograhical and historical researches of
commercial centers, resorts, harbours, etc. He read and studied a vast number of documents,
manuscripts and books written in languages ranging from Pali to Chinese, from Arabic to Latin,
from Malay to Greek and Burmese besides several European languages. Includes an excellent
index (pp. 837945). Published as Asiatic Society Monographs no.1. Cordier BI 1127.

40. GILL, WILLIAM J.: Frn oknda trakter. Resa genom Kina med dess alplnder och
stra Tibet till Burma. Stockholm, C. Suneson, 1885.
240
Pp. 290. With one folding map. Uncut and unopened copy in original wrappers, printed in red
and black, spine ends slightly chipped. A Swedish edition of The River of Golden Sand; ,
originally published in London 1880. Translated into Swedish by Dr. C.F. Bagge. Contains a
survey of river and land routes undertaken in 187677 through China and Tibet ending in Upper Burma. Burma, World Bibl. Series, 132. Cordier BI 19091.

41. GREY, THERESA: Dagbok under en resa till Egypten, Konstantinopel, Krim och

Grekland, i prinsens och prinsessans af Wales suite. Stockholm 1870.

150

Pp. (ii), vi, (2), 162. Original printed wrappers. A Swedish edition translated from the English
(London 1869). The author, born von Stedingk in Sweden, accompanied the princess of Wales
as her lady-in-waiting on a journey to Egypt, Turkey and Greece.

42. GRIMWOOD, ETHEL ST. CLAIR: My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from

the Recent Mutiny. London, Richard Bentley and son, 1891.

280

Pp. xii, (2), 321. With front portrait, another portrait, 5 full page plates and one sketch map.
Original blue cloth, gilt. Old ownership signature. Third edition. A narrative by Ethel Grimwood whos husband was a political agent at Manipur and murdered during the Manipurian
Munity. A beautiful copy.

43. GROWSE, FREDERIC SALMON (Transl.): The Rmyana of Tulsi Ds. Translated

from the Original Hindi. Revised and Illustrated. Allahabad, North-Western Provinces and
Oudh Government Press, 1883.
800
Thick 4to. Pp. (vi), xx, (2), 572, (14). With title printed in red and black, frontispiece and 16
plates, of which one double page. Contemporary half calf, stamped in gilt, rubbed, spine ends
worn. Old ownership signature. Library stamps (Garden Library Jaipur). First English translation of Tulsi Ds version of the Ramayana by Frederic Growse. Ramayana, the famous Indian
epic from the 3rd or 2nd centuries BC, is the story about Rama, the son of the king of Ayodhya
(North India). This work is a revised version of the story by Tulsi Ds (15321623), renowned
Hindu poet and philosopher. Several of the illustrations are taken from an illuminated mss in
the library of the Maharaja of Benares. Scarce.

44. HANNAH, HERBERT BRUCE , esq.: A Grammar of the Tibetan Language Literary
and Colloquial. With Copious Illustrations and Treating Fully of Spelling, Pronounciation,
and the Construction of the Verb, and Including Appendices of the Various Forms of the
Verb. Calcutta, Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1912.
500
Pp. xxii, 396. Original cloth, spine faded. Stamp on title page (University of Calcutta). First
edition. Cordier BS 4405. Yakushi (1984) H39.

45. HARA, HIROMU & SEKI, YOSHIKUNI: Tesuki Washi [Handmade Japanese Paper].

Tokyo, Takeo Yoshiten, dated Showa 44, 1969.

1500

Oblong folio. Size: 39 x 28 cm. Pp. 69 Japanese text, (14) English text and errata laid in. With

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208 paper samples accompanied by tissue guards with descriptive text. Title page with illustration by Munakata Shiko. Original Japanese style crepe paper binding in cloth chitsu, kept
in original cardboard box. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. A mint copy of this attractive
book and excellent monograph on Washi. Yoshikuni Seki was a celebrated scholar and author
on Japanese papermaking. Hiromu Hara (190386) was a famous Japanese graphic designer,
called the founder of Japanese modern design, who in 1933 participated in the founding of the
Japan Studio (Nihon Kobo). At end an essay in English by Bunsho Jugaku (also an expert and
promoter of Japanese Washi) about the history of papermaking in Japan, different materials
used and various methods.

46. HARTSHORNE, ANNA C.: Japan and Her People. Two volumes. Philadelphia, Henry

T. Coates & Co., 1902.

360

Pp. x, 377; vi, 374. With one folding map and 50 beautiful plates, photogravures by Gilbo & Co.
Publishers decorated red cloth with gilt cranes on upper covers, gilted upper edges. Bookplate.
Binding of volume two slightly shaken. First edition of an informative guide on Japan. The
account includes descriptions of Yokohama, Tokyo, Karuisawa, Nikko, Hokkaido, Hakone,
Atami, Nagoya, Ise, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Nagasaki, Kagoshima and also a visit to Formosa. Anna
Hartshorne resided in Tokyo for several years. In 1900 she helped her friend Tsuda Umeko
to start and then further develop the education at the Tsuda College (Joshi Eigaku Juku) for
Japanese women in Tokyo. Wenckstern ii, p. 38.

47. HAUGHTON, GRAVES CHAMNEY: Rudiments of Bengali Grammar. London,

Printed for the Author, 1821.

700

4to. Pp. iiixii, (ii), 168. With four engraved plates with Bengali characters. Contemporary half
calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and label, rubbed along edges, small piece of paper torn
away from upper cover. Partly with some browning. First edition. Haughton, British orientalist, who in 1817 was appointed professor of Sanskrit and Bengali at the Honourable East-India
Companys College in Haileybury. Vater p. 46. Zenker BO ii, 2858.

48. HEBER, REGINALD: Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India,
from Calcutta to Bombay, 18241825. (With Notes upon Ceylon). An Account of a Journey
to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India. Second edition.
Three volumes. London, J. Murray, 1828.
620
Pp. lxvii, (1), 450; (viii), 564; (viii), 527, (1), viii. With 28 engraved plates. A fine, uncut copy in
contemporary boards, cloth spines (faded) with title labels. Old ownership signature on titles.
Reverend Heber, the Bishop of Calcutta, first arrived in India in 1823. During 18 months he
travelled throughout the country visiting Bombay, Dacca, Benares, Allabahad, Delhi, Agra
and other places. He died in Madras in 1826. This work based on letters and diary notes was
posthumously published by his widow Amalia Heber. Occasionally some minor staining but
overall a crisp, good copy. A highly valuable and most delightful work (Lowndes ii, p. 1030).

49. HIRTH, FRIEDRICH: [Chinese title] Text Book of Modern Documentary Chinese,

for the Special Use of the Chinese Customs Service. Second edition. Rearranged, enlarged,
and edited by C.H. Brewitt-Taylor. Two volumes [Text & Key]. Shanghai: Published at the
Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs; and sold by Kelly & Walsh,
Ltd: Shanghai, Sankong, Yokohama, and Singapore etc. 1910.
400
4to. Pp. viii, 408, on blank leaf; (iv), 224. Old ownership signature on title pages. Contemporary
quarter calf on marbled boards, extremities rubbed. The text volume is in Chinese throughout
(except the pages with content) and the key volume is translated into English. Contains chapters
about forms, despatches, letters, petitions, treaties, notifications, dicts and memorials. Friedrich
Hirth, a German sinologist, was employed at the China Maritime Custom Service during the
years 187097 and later appointed professor of Chinese at Colombia University (New York).
Cordier BS 1700 (first editon 188588).

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50. HURGRONJE, CHRISTIAN SNOUCK: The Achehnese, translated by A.W.S.

OSullivan. Two volumes. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1906.
1400
Large 8vo. Pp. xxi, (5), 439, (1); (8), 384. Including half titles, frontispieces, many illustrations,
one folding woodcut plate and 2 folding colour lithographed maps. Original cloth, few light
marks to covers. First English edition of this fundamental work on Aceh, originally published
in Dutch at Batavia 189395. Aceh, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, was
the most wealthy, powerful and cultivated state in the Malacca Straits region in the early seventeenth century. The Aceh War between the Dutch and Muslim Sultinate of Aceh lasted for over
30 years, between 1873 and 1904, until the Dutch finally were able to put down the uprising.
Snouck Hurgonie (18571936) was the leading Dutch expert on Islam at this time and advisor
of Native Affairs to the colonial government of the Netherlands East Indies. He was commissioned by the Dutch government to produce an ethnographical study on Aceh. Hnersdorff,
Coffee Bibliography, II, p. 1392.

51. IDES, EVERT YSBRANTS: Three Years Travels from Moscow over-land to China:

thr Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary; &c. to Peking Written
by his Excellency E. Ysbrants Ides, Ambassador from the Czar of Muscovy to the Emperor
of China. To which is Annexd an Accurate Description of China, done Originally by a
Chinese Author. London, Printed for W. Freeman, J. Walthor, T. Newborough, J. Nicholson, and R. Parker. 1706.
6600
4to. Pp. (xii), 191, 190210 (i.e. 212). Including one blank leaf (pp. 111112). With engraved
extra decorated title (dated 1705), a large folding map of north Asia by G. Droogenham (short
tear nicely repaired without loss) and 30 engraved plates, of which 8 folding. Including a separate
title page to the chapter A Short Description of the vast Empire of China by Dionysius Kao,
a Native of that Country. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with five raised bands decorated
in gilt and with morocco label. Hinges cracked, front hinge partly split, but binding still firm.
Bookplate of James Ogilvy (16631730). Copy of the Cullen House.
Ides, a Dane in the service of Peter the Great, was sent as Ambassador to the Emperor of China
during the years 16931695. This narrative describes the countries along the way, the customs
and manners of the inhabitants, their religion, government, ceremonies of the Chinese court,
etc. The aim of the expedition was to conclude further commercial agreements with the Chinese. First English edition translated from the Dutch (Amsterdam 1704). The plates are those
of the Dutch edition, with the Dutch captions replaced by English.
The Russian embassy had less trouble with the enormous self-esteem of the Chinese than
many earlier and later embassies. Before the Tartars became masters of China, it was almost
impossible for foreigners to find admittance to the Imperial Court. Kang-hi was desirous of

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56.

preventing Russian encroachments upon his territories and the Czar was anxious to establish a
regular commerce with China. The expedition added considerable geographical knowledge to
the little that was known about Manchuria and China. (Cox). Cordier BS 2468. Cox, I, p. 331.
Howgego p. 534. Lust 519. Lwendahl 294.

52. JNSSON, E.: Till Urga i Mongoliet genom Ryssland och Sibirien. 19011902. Rese
skildring. Lund 1902.
120
Pp. 24. Unopened copy in original printed wrappers, small marginal tear. With label (Ant.
Lengertz). A narrative by a Swedish brick-maker who travelled to Mongolia where he was assigned to establish a tilery. He describes the people and their customs and beliefs.

53. KAKUZO, OKAKURA: Boken om t. versatt av Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellen-

dorff. Stockholm 1921.

120

Tall slim 8vo. Pp. 183. Original decorated Japanese paper covered boards, spine faded and
chipped at ends. Inscribed by the translator. Swedish edition of this classic work on Japanese
tea tradition first published in English at New York in 1906.

54. [KATE GREENAWAY]: Almanach de Kate Greenaway pour 1889. Paris, Hachette et

Cie, 1889.

150

24mo. Lvs (12). With lovely colour illustrations throughout. Publishers pictorial hard cover,
somewhat rubbed, rebound with new endpapers. French ediiton, translated from the English.
Printed by E. Evans.

55. [KAZAN IMPRINT]. Kratkii Tatarsko-Russkii i Slaviano-Tatarskii Slovar s Pribavleniem Osnovanii Russkoi Grammatiki. (A Brief Tatar-Russian and Slavic-Tatar Dictionary
With Addition of the Foundations of Russian Grammar). Published by Orthodox Missionary
Society. Fourth edition. Kazan, Typ. M.A. Chirkovoi, 1888.
1400
Pp. 96. Original printed wrappers, spine restored. Old ownership signature on verso of front
wrapper and Finnish library stamp on title. A rare bilingual dictionary with transliteration of

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the Tatar words by Cyrillic type. The work is structured by subject, such as parts of the human
body, family, professions, seasons, animals, plants, foods, colours, clothes, measures, etc. At end
a brief grammar presenting the main rules of Russian and Tatar languages. It was published
in Kazan, centre of Russian Tatar province, by the Orthodox Missionary Society (St. Gury
Orthodox Brotherhood 18671913) which became the center of translation of religious and
spiritual literature into local languages of Russia at the end of the 19th centutry. They even
created scripts for several languages which only had been oral before, based on Cyrillic type.
No copies found in OCLC.

56. KWATEI (KATEI), TAKI: Dessins japonaise. Fleurs et oiseaux. / Japanese Paintings.

Flowers and Birds. Volume one (all published?). Tokyo, Hakubunsha, 1887.

2800

Oblong large 4to. Size: 35.2 x 27 cm. 8 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. Including 3 pages
with title and preface (in French, English and Japanese) and 12 coloured woodcuts, all pasted
on strong paper. Original silk covered boards with Japanese title label, lightly soiled. Taki Katei
(18301901), famous painter of kachoga (images of birds and flowers) in traditional Japanese and
Chinese style during the Meji period. He had studied under Araki Kankai and Oka Umpo, and
in 1850 he went to Nagasaki where he joined a group of famous painters and studied Chinese
painting. His work was exhibited at the International Vienna Exposition of 1873, Philadelphia
in 1876 and Chicago in 1893. He was also a member of the Imperial Hosuehold which demonstrates the public recognition of an artist at that time. The exquisite woodcuts depicting flowers
and birds look like delicate paintings but are woodcuts according to the preface. This work seems
rare, we havent been able to find any libary copy neither any other volume or belonging part.

57. LABILLIERE, FRANCIS PETER: Early History of the Colony of Victoria, from its
Discovery to its Establishment as a Self-Governing Province of the British Empire. Two
volumes. London, Sampson Low etc.,1878.
300
Pp. xvi, 312, adv. 32; viii, 372. Publishers black stamped brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt.
Bookplates. A lovely copy of the first edition. This work is based on despatches and letters
of the New South Wales Correspondence from the foundation of the Colony in 1788 to the
colonization of the Port Phillip District as well as of the Tasmanian Correspondence during
the same period. Ferguson 1126.

58. LACROIX, DSIR: Numismatique annamite. Publications de lcole Francaise

dExtrme-Orient. Two volumes. Saigon, Imprimerie Mnard & Legros, 1900.

1800

Text volume: tall 8vo. Pp. (vi), 231, table pp. xxxi, (3). With a front portrait of the emperor of
Annam (1897). Plate volume: oblong folio. With 40 photogravure plates depicting 509 different
types of coins and medaillons. Modern half cloth with title lables on spines.
A comprehensive work describing coins from different Annamese dynasties dating from year
968 up to 1885. Includes also descriptions of amulets, medals and honorary decorations. At end
a chronological table listing the sovereign rulers of Annam. According to the preface Lacroix
based his work on J. Silvestres earlier studies but this work is much enlarged with new information and more illustrations. Scarce. Cordier BI 1886.

59. LATTER, THOMAS: A Grammar of the Language of Burmah. Calcutta, Baptist Mis-

sion Press, Circular Road, 1845.

1200

4to. Pp. lvi, 202. Contemporary half calf, restored with later title lable on spine. Ex library copy
(Leeds Public Library) with bookplate and blind stamps. Old ownership signatures. A few leaves
strengthend at outer margin and a few spots. A comprehensive and scholarly (first) work on the
Burmese language including a long introduction, a Burmese index and an English index. At
end a chapter about metrology containing measures of weights, distances, capacity and time.
Scarce first edition. Thomas Latter, a soldier and Burmese scholar, was born in India in 1816
and murdered in Ava, Burma in 1853. Cordier BI 347.

60. [MADAGASCAR / MALAGASY MAGAZINE] . Teny Soa. 14 volumes. Tananarive,

London Missionary Society, 1870, 18761879, 18801887 & 1900.

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Fourteen volumes of Teny Soa (The Good Word), the first religious journal in Madagascar, published by the London Missionary Society as from 1866. Text in romanized Malagasy
throughout. Bound in original blindstamped cloth (8 vols) and contemporary calf, half calf and
cloth, of which some rubbed.

61. [MARANA, GIOVANNI-PAOLO]: Lespion turc dans les cours des princes chrtiens,

ou lettres et mmoires dun envoy secret de la Porte dans les cours de lEurope. Seven
volumes in four. Londres 17421743. 
920
Pp. (ii), xlvii, 382, (12); (ii), viii, 382, (15); (ii), 428, (16); (ii), 347, (13); (ii), xvi, 451, (13); (ii), 372,
(10); (xii), 327. Title printed in red and black. With 7 engraved frontispieces, 4 folding plans
or maps, 23 engraved plates, mainly portraits and costumes. Some marginal stain (vols one and
two). Contemporary full calf, spines with five raised bands richly gilt. Marbled endpapers with
matching edges. Binding worn and hinges weak, nevertheless a handsome copy. This work treats
the history of Christendom from 1637 to 1688 as seen through the eyes of one Mohammed, a
fictious Turkish spy. First published in Italian in 1684, probably composed by the Genoese historian Marana (16421693). It became enormously popular and was translated into several languages and reprinted many times. This work fathered a new genre of literature of which Montesquieus Lettres persanes is one of the most famous. Cf Blackmer 1072 (English edition).

62. [MARGAT DE TILLY, JEAN BAPTISTE ]/ BRUMOY, PIERRE (Ed.): Histoire de

Tamerlan, empereur des Mogols, et conquerant de lAsie. Two volumes. Paris, HippolyteLouis Gubrin, 1739.
760
12mo. Pp. 285; (ii), 342. With titles printed in red and black. Contemporary full calf, spines gilt
in compartments with title labels, red edges. Binding rubbed with a few wormholes running
through the spines. With epitre to monseigneur le comte de Maurepas, ministre et secretaire
detat. The publisher Brumoy, a Jesuit missionary in St. Dominique, had to leave France as the
Duc dOrleans was badly treated in this work. See Barbier iii, 736. Cordier BS 2772.

63. MARIGNY, ABB FRANCOIS AUGIER DE : Storia degli arabi sotto il governo de
califi. Four volumes bound in eight. Venezia, Pietro Valvasense, 175354.
600
12mo. Pp. iii lxxii, 264, 297; 334, 300; 308, 305; 294, 268. Contemporary vellum, flat spines
with labels, somewhat rubbed. First Italian edition of Histoire des arabes published in 1750
(Paris). Abb de Marigny (16901762), French historian, covers here the history of the Caliphs
from Mahomet to the death of Mostazem. Cf Gay 3586. Cf Thonnelier, Cat. Orientale, 3225.

64. MARSY, FRANCOIS-MARIE DE: Nya historien, om chineserne, japanarne, indian-

erne, persianerne, turkarne, ryssarne o.s.w. Parts ivi (all published) in one volume. Stockholm, Nystrm & Stolpe & Lor. Ludv. Grefing (Part vi), 17591765.
750
Pp. 128; 140; 158; 160; 158; (iv), 364. Uncut copy in papercovered boards with original title
label in manuscript preserved. A Swedish abridged edition of Histoire moderne des chinois,
des japonais, translated from the French by J. Rding. Part one in second edition, the other
parts in first edition. Cordier BJ 440 & BS 53. Lust 410.

65. MICHAELIS, JOHANN DAVID: Recueil de questions proposes une Societ de

Savans qui par ordre de sa Majest Danoise font le voyage de lArabie. Francfort sur le Mayn,
Jean Gottlieb Garbe, 1763.
650
Pp. (xcii), 482, (1). Pages 469476 consist of four large folding tables. Later half cloth. First
French edition, translated from the original German (1762) by Mrian. Comprises preface;
introduction by von Bernstorff (minister to King Frederic V.); 43 paragraphs and 100 questions
aimed for the expedition (related to archeology, linguistics, geography etc etc.); a mmoire containing articles dealing with the religion, government, language, customs and manners in Yemen. Michaelis (17171791), a German Lutheran theolog and famous orientalist, was involved
with the preparations of the Danish scientific expedition to Arabia in 176167. Chadenat 1933.

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66. MONTANUS, ARNOLDUS: Gedenkwaerdige Gesantschappen der Oost-Indische

Maetschappy in t Vereenigde Nederland, aen de Kaisaren van Japan: Vervaetende wonderlijke voorvallen op de togt der Nederlandtsche Gesanten: Beschryving van de dorpen,
sterkten, steden, landschappen, tempels, Gods-diensten, dragten, gebouwen, dieren, gewasschen, bergen, fonteinen, vereeuwde en nieuwe oorlogs-daeden der Japanders. Amsterdam,
Jacob Meurs, 1669.
9500
Folio. Pp. (viii), 456, index (16) including engraved frontispiece and title printed in red and
black. With one folding engraved map, 20 double page engraved plates, 4 larger folding engraved plates and 71 half page engravings in the text. Contemporary full speckled calf, spine
with seven raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with title label (slightly chipped). Binding
rubbed and top of spine slightly chipped.
First edition of this monumental and early illustrated work on Japan compiled by the Dutch
minister Arnold Montanus (162583). He based the work on journals from the Dutch East
India Company as well as from writings of Jesuit missionaries. Its a narrative about the Japanese
history, the people and their customs, religion, trade etc. seen through the eyes of European
visitors who were very limited at the time. For more than 200 years Japan was almost completely
isolated form the rest of the world. The Dutch, who had established themselves on the island
of Deshima outside Nagasaki, were the only foreigners who were allowed to trade with Japan
during this period (16411854). They had to renew the permission each year, for which they
had to send a delegation from Deshima to the Shogun in Yedo. The reports of the visits between
1649 and 1661 provided Montanus with important material. Montanus book has been critized
for not being scholarly enough and about the authenticity of the plates. (See article by Isabella
H. van Eeghen). However, the plate of Deshima is acknowledged and its the earliest known
illustration of the renowned island. A beautiful copy of an impressive work. Alt-Japan-Katalog
1049. Cordier BJ 383. Landwehr VOC 522. Isabella H. van Eeghen: Arnoldus Montanuss
book on Japan, Quaerendo, vol. ii/4, 1972, pp. 250272.

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67. NATHORST, ALFRED GABRIEL: Tv somrar i Norra Ishafvet. Kung Karls land,
Spetsbergens kringsegling spanande efter Andre i nordstra Grnland. Two volumes in
one. Stockholm 1900.
200
Large 8vo. Pp. xxxvi, 352; xiv, 414. With portrait frontispiece, 3 large folding maps in colour,
numerous illustrations and some maps in the text. Publishers blue cloth printed in silver. First
edition. An account of Nathorsts scientific explorations to the Arctic Ocean in 1898 and 1899.
The first expedition went to Bear Island, Svalbard and King Karls Land. The second went to
Greenland in search of Andres balloon expedition but without any success. However they
made important geographical and geological investigations and they reached and mapped Kejsar
Frans Josefs Fjord and King Oscars Fjord. Hulth 157 & 163.

68. NEUMANN, CARL FRIEDRICH (Transl.): [Zhong-guo Xuetang] Lehrsaal des Mittelreiches. Enthaltend die Encyclopdie der chinesischen Jugend und das Buch des ewigen
Geistes und der ewigen Materie. Zum erstenmal in Deutschland herausgegeben, bersetzt
und erlutert. Mnchen, Wolff, 1836.
800
4to. Frontispiece portrait, pp. (ii), 45 + 19 with text in Chinese. Contemporary marbled boards,
rubbed, original printed wrappers bound in. Bookplate. Some minor browning. Ownership
signature in ink on titlepage. Contains the San zi jing (Three Character Classic) originally
compiled in the 13th century and was used in teaching at the elementary school. At end a manuscript of 11 lvs of Chinese text: Din 214 Pu, d.i. Klassenzeichen der chinesischen Sprache.
Our copy has an additional manuscript of 13 folding lvs with annotations in Chinese connected
to the Din 214 Pu and some dealing with the grammar, loosely enclosed in pocket at rear.
Cordier BS 1412. Lwendahl 915. Walravens, China Illustrata p. 76.

69. NORDEMANN, EDMOND : [Title in Chinese characters]. Gio nam m dai m thc.
Dy cc ng dai-php. Mthode de langue annamite (dialecte tonkinois). Indications
gnrales pour apprendre soi-mme phonologie. Formulaires d tudes syntaxe rsume
chrestomathie lmentaire contenant vingt-cinq textes exercises traduits. Lexiques francaisannamite et annamite-francais. Hanoi 1898.
350
Large 8vo. pp. xxxvi, 94. Partly with the French translations printed in red. Uncut copy in
original printed wrappers. Copy of L. Arbey (ingnieur militaire au Tonkin). First edition.
Includes 25 lessons in grammatical exercises with transcriptions. Edmond Nordemann, linguist
and founder of La Socir tonkinoise dEnseignement mutuel. Cordier BI 2308.

70. OGAWA, KAZUMASA (Photographer and editor): Military Costume in Old Japan.

Photographed by K. Ogawa, under direction of Chitora Kawasaki and Ko-yu-kai (Tokyo

Fine Art School). Tokyo 1893.
1200

Folio. Pp. preface (iv) and 15 b/w plates (chemigraphs) with descriptive text in English below
each photo. Original pictorial wrappers bound in somewhat later half red calf, lightly rubbed.
Bound by Karl Bjrklind, Kping, Sweden. Bookplates. First edition. Contains military costumes from the Fujiwara through Ashiga periods (10th 16th centuries). The plates are reproduced photographs taken by Ogawa, Japans leading photographer at the time, and printed by
National Chemigraph Co. in St. Louis U.S.A. A beautiful and crisp copy.

71. OKADA, GYOKUZAN & OKA, YGAKU & HARA, TYA MINSEI : Moroko-

shi Meisho Zue (Description of famous places in China). Six volumes. Osaka, Kawachiya
Kichibei etc., Bunka 3 (1806). 
11800
4to. Size: 18 x 26 cm. Six volumes of text in Chinese and Japanese. Wood cut printing on Japanese paper, folded in the Oriental fashion. With about 250 wood cuts including 170 double
page. Original yellow paper wrappers with title labels. Covers to first two volumes worn and
stained, and title labels chipped.
Scarce edition of this delicate work on the famous places of Qing dynasty in China, edited and
illustrated by the Japanese artists Okada Gyokuzan (17371812); Oka Yugaku (17621833);

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and Ohara Toya (17711840). This informative work is illustrated with historical and legendary scenes,topographical views, palaces, archaeological and sacred sites. A map of China and
Korea is included as well as many city plans, for example of Peking, the Forbidden City and the
Great Wall and its gates. Further there are illustrations of costumes, astronomical and musical
instruments. A. Kerlen, Catalogue of pre-Meji Japanese books and maps in public collections in
the Netherlands, no. 1077. Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Western Travellers in China Discovering
the Middle Kingdom (2009), no. 54.

72. OKAMOTO, KONSEKI STONE: Kokon hyakufu Azuma nagori. / Ancient and Modern Various Usages of Tokio Japan. Volume one (all publ.). Tokyo, Morito Suzutaro, 1885.

1500
Lvs. 60, folded in the Japanese style (fukuro-toji). Text in Japanese, title and captions also in
English. With numerous colour wood cut illustrations. Original wrappers with printed labels on
front cover, lightly soiled. A charming and delicate work showing pieces of womens clothing,
hairstyles and ornaments; common trade marks; children amusements; Japanese exhibitions;
and different kinds of beggars. Includes a vocabulary of childrens language.

73. OUTHIER, REGINAUD: Journal dun voyage au Nord, en 1736. & 1737. Paris, Piget

& Durand, 1744.

2800

4to. Pp. (viii), 238, (2). With 16 engraved plates and maps and some woodcut vignettes. (The
list of plates calls for 18 plates but 2 were never issued). Partly with some minor staining. Contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands, richly gilt and with title label, corners worn,
hinges weak and partly cracked, spine ends nicely restored. Stamp (museum) on title. First edition of this wellknown account of the French scientific expedition headed by Maupertius to the
north of Sweden in 173637. Reginaud Outhier (16941774), French priest, participated as the
astronomer on the expedition. His account comprises a personal journal with descriptive details
of the area and its inhabitants. The plates are done after drawings by the author. Bring no. 142.

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74. [PRATT, GEORGE]: A Samoan Dictionary; English and Samoan, and Samoan and
English; With a Short Grammar of the Samoan Dialect. Samoa, printed at the London
Missionary Societys Press, 1862.
1600
Pp. (iv), 3223. Original textured cloth boards, spine titled in manuscript, spine faded. Some
staining to title page. First edition of the first Samoan dictionary (and grammar) to be published.
In August 1830 John Williams and Charles Baff from the London Missionary Society arrived
on Savaii, Samoa together with some Tahitian missionaries. The LMS mission was accepted
by the natives and grew rapidly throughout the Samoan Islands. The missionaries developed
a Samoan alphabet and put the language into written form. The first printing press began to
operate around 1839 but not until 1862 appeared the first printed dictionary (this work) by
Reverend George Pratt who served for many years in Samoa. Cf Zaunmller 334 (Malua 1911).

75. [QURAN]. CRUSENSTOLPE, JOHAN FREDRIK SEBASTIAN (Transl.): Koran

fversatt frn arabiska originalet, jemte en historisk inledning Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt &
Sner, 1843.
380
Pp. vi, 158; 784, index 26, errata (1). Contemporary half calf, flat spine decorated in gilt, rubbed,
corners worn. Bound by A.E. Boman in Falun (Sweden). Old ownership signature on front
paste down. A few leaves with small marginal stain. The first complete Swedish translation
of the Koran. Fredrik Crusenstolpe, Swedish orientalist and diplomat, served at the Swedish
Consulate in Tangier, and later on in Alger. Linnstrm p. 821.

76. RAE, EDWARD: The White Peninsula, A Journey in Russian Lapland and Karelia.

London, John Murray, 1881.

460

Pp. xviii, 347. With one folding coloured map in rear pocket and 15 woodcut illustrations and 12
lovely etchings by the author. Publishers blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, front hinge weak.
Ex. library copy. A clean and fresh copy. First edition of a charming and informative travelogue
from the far north of Russia and Finland. The journey starts at North Cape (Norway) and
continues around the Kola Peninsula and Karelia. Includes tables of birds and flowers found in
the area and a vocabulary of Samoyede, Russian Lapp and Russian. Schitz 838.

77. RMA PRASDA (Transl.): Patanjalis Yoga Sutras with the commentary of Vysa and
the gloss of Vchaspati Misra. With an introduction from Rai Bahadur Srs Chandra Vasu
(Third edition). Published by Sudhindranath Vasu. Allahabad, Printed by Mr. J.J. Lawrence
at the Liverpool Press, 1924.
240
Pp. (iv), xii, 320. With Sanskrit text and English translation and commentary. Ownership inscription, some underlinings and notes in ink throughout. Contemporary brown cloth, somewhat rubbed, remains of original wrappers at inner margin of title. Included in The Sacred
Books of the Hindus. Volume iv.

78. [REDESDALE, ALGERNON BETRAM FREEMAN-MITFORD]: [MATSU-ISHIYA]. Porcelain Plaques, Dinner, Breakfast, Tea, and Toilet Sets, Punch Bowls, Vases, and

Decorative Pieces of Infinite Beauty and Variety, on View and for Sale. The Tale of Forty
Seven Ronin. For Presentation Only. Yokohama, Matsuishiya, No. 22 Honcho-dori Nichome, no date (about 1900).
280
Pp. (ii), 30. With 9 pages with illustrations. Original pictorial paper boards, cloth spine, extremities worn. A booklet dealing with the famous samurai story The Tale of Forty Seven Ronin
issued as a leaflet for porcelain ware offered by Matsu Ishi-Ya in Yokohama.

79. RHASIS, GEORGES: [Title in Turkish]. Vocabulaire francais-turc. Two parts in

one volume. St. Petersbourg, Imprimerie de lAcademie Impriale des Sciences, 182829.

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4to. Pp. (xii) + 438 columns, 1 blank page; pp (ii) + 328 columns. With Arabic characters and
pronounciation in Latin. Contemporary quarter red morocco, spine richly gilt with 4 raised
bands, rubbed and edges worn. Title foxed and the text partly with some foxing. First edition
of this scarce dictionary. De Sacy 2530. Zenker ii,76. Not in Atabey or Blackmer.

80. ROSNY, LON LOUIS LUCIEN PRUNOL DE: Dictionnaire des signes
idographiques de la Chine avec leur prononciation usite en Chine et au Japon et leur
expedition en francois, accompagn dun vocabulairs des caractrs difficiles a trouver rangs
daprs le nombre de traits, dune table des signes susceptibles dtre confondus, Paris,
Benjamin Duprat, 1864.
580
Pp. viii, viii, 240. Original printed wrappers (dated 1867), spine chipped, wrappers soiled. Partly
uncut, lightly dusty along edges. First edition of this early work by the distingiushed French
orientalist Lon de Rosny. He was professor of Japanese and a.o. compiled the bibliography of
Nordenskilds Japanese collection of books. Cordier BJ 52930 & BS 1741.

81. SAVARY, CLAUDE ETIENNE: Grammaire de la langue arabe vulgaire et littrale;

ouvrage posthume de M. Savary, traducteur du Coran, augment de quelques contes arabes,

par lditeur. Paris, de lImprimerie Impriale, 1813.
1250
4to. Pp. xii, 536. Contemporary marbled boards, calf spine printed in gilt, rubbed at corners and
hinges. Posthumously published by L. Langls. First edition of an important early Arabic dialect
grammar. It is printed with the fine types of Savary de Brves and includes a Latin translation.
Includes for the first time in print a substantial part of Thousand and One Nights in Arabic.
Contains a additional part by Langls (pp 470523), which in 1814 was published separately
under the title Les voyages de Sind-Bd le Marin, et la Ruse des femmes. De Sacy 2804.
Zenker BO i, 244. Vater p.28.

82. SCHOUTEN, WOUTER: Oost-Indische voyagie; vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene vreemde Geschiedenissen bloedige Zee-en Landt-gerechten de Portugeesen en Makassaren; Een curieuse Beschrijving der voornaemste Landen, Eylanden,
Koninckrijcken en Steden in Oost-Indien; Three parts in one volume. Amsterdam, Jacob
Meurs & Johannes Someren, 1676.
5600
4to. Pp. (xii) including one blank leaf, 328; 253, (23) index. With engraved extra title, one
engraved portrait, 24 full page engraved plates, 19 double page plates and 5 illustrations in
the text. Contemporary vellum, rubbed, front hinge cracked, title in manuscript on spine.
Bookplate. Some leaves at beginning and end with marginal notch. Occasionally some minor
staining. First edition. Wouter Schouten (16381704) joined the Dutch VOC as a surgeon on an
adventureous expedition to the East Indies during the years 16581665. In 1660 he was present
at the Dutch siege of Makassar (in Sulawesi) and he participated in the campaigns of Rucklof
van Goens along the Malabar coast. He also visited Bengal, Arakan, Colombo, Sumatra, the
Moluccas, and Ambonia. Its a comprehensive and well written travel journal with information
about the life at sea, war operations, and the history, culture and religions of the countries
visited. Schouten also describes countries he had not visited, for example he writes about the
loss of Zeelandia on Formosa (Taiwan). The beautiful engravings contain city views of Batavia,
Java, Coulang, Colombo, Malacca, Arrakan, Tegenepainam, Bergen (Norway), etc. Howgego
S66. Lipperheide Ld2.

83. SCHOUTEN, WOUTER: Ost-Indische Reise: Worin erzehlt wird viel Gedenckenwrdiges, und ungemeine seltzame Sachen, bluhtige See- und Feld-schlachten, wieder die
Portugisen und Makasser, Belgerungen, Bestrmungen, und Eroberungen vieler frnehmen Stdte und Schlsser; wie auch eine eigendliche Beschreibung der frnehmsten ostindischen Landschaften, zugleich eine ausfhrliche Erzehlung, was sich in der gefhrlichen Zurckreise nach Holland, zwischen den ost-indischen Retour-Schiffen, und den

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Engellndern, im Jahr 1665 in der Stadt Bergen in Norwegen, Alles beschrieben durch
Walter Schultzen. Amsterdam, Jacob von Meurs u. Johannes von Sommern, 1676. 6000
Folio. Pp. (iv), 206, (ii), 121291, (9) register; 64. Title page printed in red and black. With
engraved decorated extra title, one engraved portrait, 19 double page engraved plates, one full
page and many more engravings in the text. Some plates are browned due to the paper quality, four have marginal repairs and one plate is strengthened on verso at fold. Later (mid 18th
century) half calf, marbled edges, rubbed. Bookplate. Old ownership signature on title. First
German edition translated from the original Dutch edition (Amsterdam 1676). Comprises at
end: Von der Heydes Gefrhrlicher Schiff-bruch des ost-indischen Jagdt-schifs ter Schelling.
With separate title page dated Amsterdam 1676 and 13 engravings. A handsome copy. Howgego
S66. Lipperheide Ld2. Mendelssohn ii 279f.

84. 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.
240
Pp. viii, 304. Including one frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Publishers 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 186061 and then passed over the boundary into Tibet
and visited the Lamaseries and got interested in the so called Praying-Wheel.

85. SMYTH, ROBERT BROUGH: The Aborigines of Victoria: with Notes Relating to
the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania. Compiled from Various
Sources for the Government of Victoria. Two volumes. Melbourne 1878.
980
Large 8vo. Pp. lxxii, 484; vi, 456. With two large folding maps, two fronts, 9 plates and many
more illustrations in the text. Publishers pictorial cloth, gilt. Somewhat rubbed. New endpapers.
Some minor foxing in a few places. First edition of this comprehensive work on the Aborigines
of Australia. Smyth was already at the age of sixteen appointed Secretary of the Board for the
Protection of the Aborigines. This work contains much information about the physical character, customs and manners, education, marriage, food, diseases, weapons etc. of the Aboriginal
people. Includes a section about the languages of different tribes. Fergusson 15882.

86. SPITZEL, GOTTLIEB (SPIZEL, THEOPHIL): De re literaria sinensium commen-

tarius. Lugd. Bat., Ex officina Petri Hackii, 1660.

800

12mo. Pp. xxiv, 306, (20). With engraved extra title, two engraved plates and one more plate,
all included in the pagination. Small tear to title expertly repaired on verso. Contemporary
half calf, spine gilt, lightly rubbed. Copy of Olov Bertil Andersson, Swedish sinologist, with
his signature on front end paper. First edition. Engraved title dated 1661. Baroque dream of a
China involved with the ancient Middle East, Classical antiquity, etc. (Lust). Cordier BS 1412.
Lust 77 (no plates). Lwendahl 123. Walravens (1987) 163.

87. STOPES, MARY CARMICHAEL: A Journal from Japan. A Daily Record of Life as

Seen by a Scientist. London and Glasgow, Blackie and Son, 1910.

380

Pp. xiv, 280. With 8 photographic plates and a few textual illustrations. Original cream cloth.
First edition. Mary Stopes is better known for her works on womens rights, censorship and family planning. She became Britains youngest Doctor of Science at the age of twenty-four. In 1907
she travelled to Japan to study the islands fossils and stayed on for 18 months. Robinson p. 150.

88. [SWEDISH EAST INDIA COMPANY / CHINESE PORCELAIN]. BERG, WILHELM: Om infrseln till Sverige af kinesiskt porslin under Svenska Ostindiska Kompaniets

tredje oktroj ren 17661786. En keramisk studie. Gteborg 1879. 

500

Large 4to. Pp. 33. Text printed within red borders. With illustrations in the text. Half cloth,
original printed wrappers bound in. First edition, limited to 50 copies, of which this is no. 6. A
study about Chinese porcelain imported to Sweden by the East India Comany during the third
charter; 1766 to 1786. Includes tables listing the date, ship and kind of wares.

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89. [SWEDISH EXPEDITION TO SPITZBERGEN 1890.] KLINCKOWSTRM,

AXEL: Tre mnaders dag, minnen frn Svenska Spetsbergs-Expeditionen 1890. [A lecture

on the Swedish Spitzbergen expedition in the year 1890]. Stockholm 1891.

280

12mo. Pp. (xii), 176. With frontispiece, 7 full page plates and 7 illustrations in the text. Original
pictorial boards, spine restored, covers with some stain. Bookplate and old ownership signature.
Scarce first edition of this charming travelogue by the expeditions zoologist. The Swedish expedition to Spitzbergen during the summer of 1890 was headed by Gustaf Nordenskild. The
aim of the mission was to investigate geological and zoological conditions at Spitzbergen. Hulth
100. Ragnar Thorn, Svenska Arktiska expeditioner under 1800-talet, pp. 187206.

90. TAGORE, RABINDRANATH: Gitanjali (Song Offerings). A Collection of Prose

Translations made by the Author from the Original Bengali. With An Introduction by W.B.
Yeats. London, the Chiswick Press for the India Society, 1912.
1600

Pp. xvi (including a blank leaf), 64. With a front portrait of Tagore after a pencil drawing by
William Rothenstein. An additional postcard portrait of Tagore is pasted in. Original cream
cloth with gilt lettering, dusty and with some staining. Scarce first English edition, limited to
750 copies of which 250 only for sale.
Rabindranath Tagore (18611941), renowned Bengali poet, novelist, educator and composer
has been considered to be the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. Tagore won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1913 as the first Asian recipient. He wrote in the common language of
the people which was hard to accept by his critics and scholars. In 1910 he published the book
of poems in Bengali titled Gitanjali. In 1912 due to bad health Tagore sailed for England and
during the voyage he translated the Gitanjali into English comprising 103 poems. The translation was published by the India Society in London with help from William Rothenstein who
knew Tagore since his visit to India 191011. Tagore dedicated the work to Rothenstein as a
token of their friendship. In the introduction written by William Butler Yeats you can read:
These prose translations have stirred my blood as nothing has for years I have carried the
manuscript of these translations with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of
omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how

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much it moved me. The book created a sensation among the British literature world, and was
republished ten more times during the next nine months. Nilanjan Banerjee: Tagore, Gitanjali
and the Nobel Prize, India Perspectives vol. 24 no. 2/2010.

91. TANAKA, UMESABURO (Ed.): [The Portraits of the Forty-Seven Ronins, with

the Biographical Sketch of Each Ronin Eibun ehon Chushingura]. Yokohama, Tanaka
Usaburo, Meiji 18 (i.e. 1886).
3000
Large 8vo. Size: 25 x 18 cm. Lvs (1) preface (strengthened); 25 folded in the Japanese fashion.
Text in English. With one large folding coloured plate showing the famous revenge scene
and 50 beautiful colour woodblock illustrations. Original cloth covered boards, rubbed. First
edition. Scarce work on the famous Japanese tale Chushingura or the Forty Seven Ronins
which is based on a true story. It is about a group of samurai who avenged the disgrace and seppuku (suicide) of their master Lord Asano in 1703 by assassinating the official responsible for
his death. This work describes the battles of these ronins, each one illustrated in a traditional
Japanese ceremonial robe. Small wormholes running through first few leaves, otherwise in good
condition with the beautiful and expressive portraits in strong bright colours.

92. TARNOW, FANNY (FRANZISKA CHRISTINE JOHANNA FRIEDRIKE): Bref

fver St Petersburg. bo, Joh. Christ. Frenckell, 1820.

400

Pp. (viii), 218, 34. With one folding map. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with red title label,
lightly rubbed at corners. Swedish edition translated from the German (Berlin 1819). Comprises letters about St. Petersburg and its culture life by a German authoress. The map shows
important buildings and places. A beautiful copy.

93. TAYLOR, J. HUDSON (Ed.): Chinas Millions. 1880. London, Morgan and Scott,

1880.

160
4to. Pp. (ii), xii, 160. With coloured frontispiece of a Chinese scroll and one large folding
coloured map. Text in two columns, richly illustrated throughout. Publishers blue cloth richly
decorated in gilt, g.e. Binding somewhat shaken but still firm. Chinas Millions was a yearly
periodical issued by the China Inland Mission as from 1876 reporting about the missions work.
Hudson Taylor was the founder of the China Inland Mission.

94. TESSIER LOUIS ALEXANDRE: Notice pour faire suite au mmoire sur limportation
des chvres-cachemires. Paris, Madame Huzard, Juillet 1820.
120
Pp. 14. With one large folding lithographic plate Chvres de race Thibtaine dites ChvresCachemire, importes par M.M. Ternaux et Jaubert. New wrappers.

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95. [TIBETAN-MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: DBYANGS-GSAL-BZUG. [A

calligraphers manual for writing the Lanydza (Ranjana) script]. Mongolia, 19th century.

2500
A manuscript giving the alphabet and ligatures of the religious Lanydza (originally Ranjana)
script used for special Buddhist texts. Format: 10 x 31 cm. Lvs 9, numbered 19 in Tibetan.
Comprising one title page,16 pages of text and one page with closing text. Loose as issued
within later Oriental silk cloth covered boards. The text is written in rows comprising the alphabet and ligatures of Lanydza in black ink; followed by regular Tibetan script in red ink and the
transcription in Mongolian characters in black ink. First and last leaves mounted on old paper
with some wear and marginal holes. Frayed at margins and a few leaves with marginal repairs.
Tha Ranjana script is one of many alphabets which derived from the Brahmi script. It developed during the 11th century and was used until the mid 20th century in India and Nepal by the
Newar people for religious texts. The Tibetans used this script which they call Lanydza when
writing original Sanskrit texts and for writing decorative scripts in temples and in the drawings
of mandalas. Many manuscripts written in Lanydza were preserved in the old monasteries of
Tibet but most of them were destroyed following the Chinese take over. A charming and most
unusal specimen.

96. TISSANDIER, ALBERT: Cambodge et Java. Ruines khmres et javanaises 18931894.

Paris, E. Masson, diteur, 1896.

950

Large 4to. Pp. vi, 160. With one map and 30 phototype plates and many woodcut illustrations
in the text. Original colour printed wrappers bound in fine half morocco, spine gilt with five
raised bands and title printed in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt u.e. Inscribed by the author. First
edition of this attractive and interesting account of the ancient sites of Cambodia and Java by
Albert Tissandier (18391906), a French architect, illustrator and baloonist. Cordier BI 2705.

97. [TURKEY]. Turcici imperii status. Seu discurses varii de rebus turcarum. Lugd. Bat.,
ex officina Elzeviriana, 1630.
580
16mo. Pp. (viii) including engraved title, 314, index (5). Slightly later half calf, somewhat rubbed.
Old annotations and underlinings. First edition, a second was issued in 1634. A collection of
excerpts and short works by several writers such as Busbecq, Soranzo, Montalbano, Malaguzzi,
etc. Berghman 1903. Willems 340.

98. TURNER, RALPH LILLEY: A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the

Nepali Language with Indexes of all Words Quoted from other Indo-Arayan Languages.
Compiled by Dorothy Rivers Turner. London 1931.
1000
Large 4to. Pp. xxiv, 935. Text in double columns containing the Nepali word, pronounciation
and translation into English. Publishers cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed. First edition of
the first published Nepali-English dictionary which took 16 years to complete. Turner never
had the opportunity to visit Nepal because of on-going war in the area. However he lived in the
border lands among men of Nepal for four years. For the first time an attempt has been made
to indicate with some degree of scientific accuracy the etymologies of an Indo-Aryan language
as a whole. Yakushi (1984) T139. Zaunmller 294.

99. WELLS WILLIAMS, SAMUEL: A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language;

Arranged According to the Wu-fang Yuen Yin, with the Pronunciation of the Characters as
Heard in Peking, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai. Shanghai, American Presbyterian Mission
Press, 1903.
680
Thick 4to. Pp. lxxxiv, 1254. Text in three columns. Stereotyped. A few leaves of index at end
with some marginal repairs. Original red cloth, somewhat worn, faded and stained, shaken. Fifth
edition, first was published in 1874. This dictionary comprises 12 527 characters, contained in
10 940 articles, and placed under 522 syllables, which follow each other alphabetically. Williams
has arranged the characters according to the Wu-fang Yuen Yin system instead of following
Morrison. Cordier BS 1599.

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charlotte du rietz

100. [VENICE PHOTO ALBUM]. Ricordo di Venezia. Venice, C. Naya, about 1880.

600
Oblong 4to. Size: 35 x 27 cm. With 20 original albumen prints mounted on card board with
descriptive text in Italian, English and German. The pictures depict panoramas, famous palaces
and monuments. Original red cloth, stamped in gilt, rubbed, rebacked, back cover with some
stains. Old ownership signature. Internally fine, the photographs are in very good condition.

101. WILLIAMS, JOHN: Observations of Comets, from BC 611 to AD 1640. Extracted

from the Chinese Annals. Translated, with Introductory Remarks, and an Appendix, Comprising the Tables Necessary for Reducing Chinese Time to European Reckoning; and a
Chinese Celestial Atlas. London 1871.
600
Small folio. Pp. ii, xxxii 124 + 5 lvs with tables (AH) + Chinese celestial atlas with 16 plates and
2 lvs of index on recto. Errata tipped in. Original blindstamped cloth, spine with title lettered in
gilt, slightly rubbed. Inscribed by the author. Scarce, printed for the author. A useful reference
work in the form of a catalogue arranged by classics, history, philosophers, etc. based on the
encyclopedia of Ma Twan Li. Sotheran no. 5424. Cordier BS 1444.

102. WORKMAN, FANNY BULLOCK & WILLIAM HUNTER: Ice-Bound Heights

of the Mustagh. An Account of Two Seasons of Pioneer Exploration and High Climbing in
the Baltistan Himlaya. New York, Charles Scribners sons, 1908.
1400
Pp. (xvi), 444. With two maps (of Kashmir and Karakoram) and 170 illustrations of which
several full page. Including three photo gravures (two portraits), coloured front and 3 other
coloured plates. Original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, rubbed and rebacked with most of the
original spine preserved. Small tear at outer margins of first few leaves, otherwise a fresh and
clean copy. First edition of this narrative of two mountaineering expeditions in the Baltisan
Himalaya exploring the Chogo Lungma glacier and the Hoh Lumba and Sosbon glaciers. The
authors made scientific observations and important mapmaking in the Himalayas, especially at
the Karakorum range. Yakushi (1984) W123.

103. WORTLEY MONTAGU, LADY MARY: Lettres, crites pendant ses voyages en

diverses parties du monde. Traduits de langlois. Nouvelle dition. Beacoup plus correcte
que les ditions qui viennent de parotre. Two parts in one volume. Paris, Duchesne, 1764.

400
12mo. Pp. viii, 240; (ii), 223. Contemporary calf, richly gilt, gilt inner dentelles, rubbed. Front
cover and the first part of the book have small wormholes running through the text, more severe
at pages 79139 with slight loss of text. A French edition of Lady Wortley Montagu Letters first
published at London in 1763. Cox p. 229. Robinson p. 32.

104. VRIEMOET, EMO LUCIUS: Arabismus; exhibens grammaticam, arabicam no-

vam, & monumenta qvaedam arabica, cum notis miscellaneis & glossario arabico-latino.
Franeqverae (Franeker), V. Bleck, 1733.
650
Small 4to. Pp. (viii), 84, 89160, (8588); specimina arabica varii argumenti: 161196, (ii);
glossarum arabicum-latinum: (ii), 56. Misbound but complete. Paper browned throughout.
Modern papercovered boards. First edition of this scarce Dutch-Arabic grammar. Comprises:
Grammatica Arabica ad methodum grammaticae hebraeae altingianae delineata, a short
chrestomathy (specimina arabica ) and an Arabic-Latin vocabulary. Vriemoet (16991760) was
an orthodox professor of oriental languages at Franeker. Cit avec loge par Schnurrer, qui
donne le dtail des fragments arabes joints la grammaire. De Sacy 2781. Schnurrer 101.
Thonnelier, Catalogue de Bibl.,1257. Zenker BO i, 212.