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London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green., 1826. First edition, 4to, pp.lxix, 432, errata leaf, folding map. Added engraved portrait of Babur at first page after prelims. A very good copy in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered to style. Title page and map are foxed. Otherwise clean.
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Memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din Muhammed Baber, Emperor of Hindustan, written by himself, in the Jaghatai Turki, and translated, partly by the Late John Leyden, Esq., partly by William Erskine, Esq. with notes and a geographical and historical introduction: together with a map of the countries between the Oxus and Jaxartes, and a memoir regarding its construction, by Charles Waddington, Esq. of the East India Company's Engineers.
by Babur; Leyden, John, translator
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A True and Exact Description of the most celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon: With all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: The manners, habits, oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. As likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, sea and field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, &c. of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and compleat account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East-Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentick manuscripts; partly from frequent conversation with their priests and divines: With the draughts of their idols, done after their ori
by Baldaeus, Philip
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London: [John Churchill], [1732]. Second edition in English, from volume III of A. & J. Churchill's Collection of Voyages and Travels, folio, 35 x 21.5 cm., engraved title, frontispiece portrait of the author, title, pp.(503)-822, [16, index], 33 (of 34) folding plates, maps & plans, (lacking only an audience of the King of Kandy), two portraits, 53 text illustrations. Signatures are 6M9Z1. The letterpress title (p.[501]) has signature mark 6M at foot, and 'Vol. III.' Preface begins on p.503. An excellent copy bound in full contemporary speckled calf, neatly re-cased. Lacking only the plate of the audience with the King of Kandy. This second edition of the first English translation was published by John Churchill after the death of his brother Aylsham. It had first appeared 1704 as the last part of volume III of the now infamous A Collection of Voyages and Travels. In 1704 John and Aylsham Churchill exploited the almost non-existent copyright laws to publish a massive…
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Szafieddini Hellensis ad Sulthanum Elmelik Eszdzaleh Schemseddin Abulmekarem ortokidam carmen Arabicum. E codice manu scripto Bibliothecae Regiae Parisiensis edidit. Interpretatione et Latina et Germanica annotationibusques illustravit D. Georgius Henricus Bernstein, orientis litterarum in Universitate Litteraria Regia Berolinensi professor.
by Bernstein, Georg
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Leipzig: Carl Tauchnitz, 1816. First edition, folio (37 x 27 cm), pp. 24, [1, blank], [6-1, Arabic text], [1, blank]; printed on vellum in Latin, German, and Arabic; the 6 pages of Arabic text with elaborately illuminated headpiece, tailpiece, and text frames, in gilt and colours, mingling elements of Mamluk, Indian, Iranian, and Ottoman illumination with European designs. The headpiece signed "A. Brückner pinx: 1816". Bound in late nineteenth-century half morocco with boards of gilt paper blind-stamped in elaborate Japonist patterns, corners and spine blind-ruled, spine with raised bands and morocco label; very slight wear to edges, and one short split to top of upper board's hinge, but both joints firm; a few areas of marginal discolouration to the vellum, but illumination clean and vibrant. A very good copy. A remarkable work of book art, combining printing on vellum in Arabic and roman scripts with a fascinating scheme of illumination. The text comprises a critical edition of…
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A view of the agricultural, commercial and financial interests of Ceylon. With an appendix; containing some of the principal laws and usages of the Candians; port and custom-house regulations; tables of exports and imports, public revenue and expenditure, &c.&c.
by Bertolacci, Anthony
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London: Black, Parbury, and Allen, 1817. First edition, 8vo, pp.[xvi], 577, [1], blank, 26 tables, large hand-coloured folding map, 51 x 32 cm. A good complete copy bound in modern imitation leather. Text foxed, final leaves preserved in Japanese tissue. Map in very good condition, with one short split and a few paper repairs to reverse. A valuable, comprehensive description of the economic state of the island of Ceylon in the early years of British administration. Anthony Bertolacci (1776-1833), a Corsican, served in the Ceylon civil service from 1798 to 1814, rising to Controller General of Customs and Auditor General. This was the first economic history of Ceylon to be published, and benefits from Bertolacci's decades of first-hand experience of the island's financial administration. Although our copy of the book has suffered from long residence in the climate of Ceylon, the large folding map, A new map of the island of Ceylon, compiled by Captain Schneider, Colombo, 1813, and printed by…
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A Dictionary, Telugu and English, explaining the colloquial style used in business and the poetical dialect, with explanations in English and in Telugu. [with] A Dictionary of the Mixed Dialects and Foreign Words used in Telugu. With an explanation of the Telugu alphabet.
by Brown, Charles Philip
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Madras: printed at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press, 1852, 1854. First editions, two works bound in one. Small 4to, 25 x 17 cm; pp.[iv, half-title and advertisements], xvi, 1303, [1, blank]; [iv, half-title and advertisements], xxviii, 131, [1, blank]. With contemporary advertisements. A very good set bound in modern half speckled calf over marbled boards. Spine label and compartments in gilt. Appendix of the first volume has 'APPENDIX' faintly printed on fore-edge. Discreet binders ticket to rear end-paper. Half-title of first volume spotted with 1cm tear to upper inner margin. Single wormhole to outer margin pp.75-131 of second volume, not affecting text. The first Telugu-English dictionary by Charles Philip Brown (1798-1884), still considered the standard English study of the classical language. Brown, also known as Andhrabhashoddhaaraka or " saviour of Telugu", was the also the first to translate works of Telugu literature, such as The Verses of Vemana (1829), into…
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