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583 BALLANTYNE (J. R.) Sanscrit Grammar, with an introduction to the Hitopadesa, 8vo. cloth

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584 BHAVNAGAR, Inscriptions throwing a light on the early history of
Bhavnagar, impl. 4to. facsimiles of inscriptions with Sanscrit translitera-
tion, sd.
Bhavnagar, 1885
585 BHAVNAGAR: A collection of Prakret and Sanscrit inscriptions, roy. 4to.
numerous rubbings, hf. morocco Privately printed, Bhavnagur (1890)
586 BURNOUF (Eugène) le Lotus de la Bonne Loi, traduit du Sanskrit,
avec Commentaire et 21 Mémoires relatifs au Buddhisme, roy. 4to.
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Paris, 1852
The Sanscrit name of this work is Saddharma Pundarika.
Introduction à l'histoire du Buddhisme Indien, Vol. I (all
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588 HITOPADESA in Sanscrit with grammatical analysis and vocabulary by Johnson, roy. 8vo. cloth

589 KALIDASA, Vikramorvasi, in English by E. B. Cowell, 8vo. bds.
590 MANAVA DHAMA SHASTRA: Institutes of Hindu Law; or, the ordinances
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Lois de Manou, Sanscrit et Français, avec notes, variantes et scholies, par Loiseleur Deslongchamps, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo. hf. morocco Paris, 1830-33 592 MAX MÜLLER, Sanscrit Grammar for beginners in Devanagari and Roman letters throughout, roy. 8vo. cloth 1870 593 PANTCHATANTRA ou les cinq livres, en Francais, par Lancereau, 8vo. 434 pp. slightly stained, hf. morocco 1871 594 PARABOLE de l'Enfant égaré formant le chapitre IV du Lotus de la bonne loi publiée en Sanscrit et en Tibétain, 12mo. hf. morocco

595 POOR (L. E.) Sanskrit and its kindred literatures, 12mo. cloth

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596 UPA-SASTRA edited in English by Hawken, 8vo. cloth
597 VALMIKI, The Ramayan of, translated into English Verse by Ralph
T. H. Griffith, 5 vols. 8vo. cloth
Benares, 1870
This edition is now entirely out of print and scarce.
598 TULSI DAS, The Ramayana of, translated from Hindi by F. S. Growse,
4to. numerous views and photographic plates from native designs,
bds.
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"The Ramayana of Tulsi Das is more popular and more honoured by the people
of the North-Western Provinces than the Bible is by the corresponding classes in
England."-Griffith.

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599 VATSYAYANA, Le Kama Soutra, règles de l'amour, traduit par E. Lamairesse, roy. 8vo. sd. Paris, 1891 600 WESTERGAARD (N. L.) Radices linguae Sanscritae, impl. 8vo. hf. Bonn, 1841 601 WILLIAMS (M.). A Dictionary, English and Sanskrit. 4to. bound, pp. xii, 859 London, 1851 602 WILLIAMS (MONIER). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, etymologically and philologically arranged with Special Reference to Greek, Gothic, German, Anglo-Saxon and other cognate Languages. 4to. cloth, pp. xxviii, 1186 (pub. £4. 14s 6d) Oxford, 1872 603 SCHOUTEN (Gu.) Journal ou relation du Voyage de, dans les Indes: Par un nouveau destroit, et par les grandes Mers Australes qu'il à descouvert, vers le Pole Antartique, 12mo. 8 maps and plates, bd. Paris, 1618 604 STRAHLENBERG (P. J. von) Das Nord-und Oestliche Theil von Europa und Asia, 4to. with map and plates, bd. Stockholm, 1730

With a Polyglott vocabulary of Tartarian languages. TASMANIA-See AUSTRALASIA.

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C'est dans cette collection de voyages qu'est publiée pour la première fois la relation du Père MARQUETTE et de JOLIET. Pour l'importance de ce document consulter les Notes sur la Nouvelle France, des M. Harrisse, no 147.-Collation: Titre, au verso le contenu de l'ouvrage, 16 pp. pour l'avis, la table des pièces et relations, et privilège; carte de la route D'ABEL TASMAN autour de la Terre Australe.DÉCOUVERTE DE QUELQUES PAYS ET NATIONS DE L'AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE (PAR LE P. Marquette ET LE SIEUR JOLIET), 43 pp., avec la carte du cours du Mississipi, jusqu'à l'endroit où les voyageurs étaient arrivés en descendant. Cette carte est encore plus rare que celle d'Abel Tasman.-Voyage d'un ambassadeur que le Tzar de Moscovie envoya par terra à la Chine l'année 1653, 18 pp. Explication de la carte de la découverte de la terre d'Ielmer, cette carte est rare.-Discours sur l'art de la navigation, 32 pp. 1 figure représentant le niveau.-Les histoires naturelles de l'éphémère et du cancellus ou Bernard l'hermite, décrites par M. Swammerdan, 20 pp., 5 figures dans le texte et explications, 14 pp., 2 grandes pl. hors texte.-Histoire du cancellus, 8 pp., avec pl. gravées dans le texte, la 6o hors texte.-Le cabinet de M. Swammerdam, 16 pp.

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Leipzig, 1841

609 SCHMIDT, Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache, 4to. hf. morocco
St. Petersburg, 1840
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In this work the author advises Englishmen to pass as French, the Turks denying
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Francforti-ad. Manum, Feyrabend, 1578
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while in England Sir J. D. Hooker and Professor W. T. Thiselton Dyer gave material
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WORKS ON CHINA

AND

CHINESE LITERATURE

OFFERED BY

BERNARD QUARITCH

Giles's Biographical Dictionary

of Eminent Chinamen

from the earliest records of Chinese History to the present time, to be issued in two parts forming one stout volume, royal 8vo. Chinese names in Chinese characters, with the English pronunciation, subscription price £2. 28, payable on delivery of the first half

Part I, 496 pp., is now ready and can be delivered at once to subscribers.

As soon as the book is completed the price will be raised to £3. 3s.

"Mr. Herbert A. Giles, late H.M. Consul at Ningpo, has finished A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.' It will contain

1897

about 2500 lives of the most eminent Chinese statesmen, warriors, philosophers, poets, painters, travellers, priests, rebels, beauties, etc., from the earliest ages down to the present day. Biographical notices of the emperors will also be included."The Athenæum, February 6th, 1897.

Chuang Tzu; Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer: an English

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Gems of Chinese Literature, fcap. 8vo. xvi and 254 pp. extra cloth,

78 6d 1883 This work contains over a hundred extracts from some sixty of the most famous Chinese authors of all ages, thus forming an introduction to the general literature of China.-Academy, November 3rd, 1883.

Glossary of Reference on Subjects connected with the FAR EAST, by Herbert A. Giles, H.B.M. Vice-Consul, Shanghai, a revised and enlarged edition of a work which the same author published in 1878, 8vo. bds. 78 6d 1886

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WORKS ON CHINA.

Chinese-English Dictionary, by HERBERT A. GILES,

impl. 4to. xlvi and 1416 pp. in treble cols. cloth, £6. 16s 6d Shanghai, 1892 This great Monumental work supersedes all its predecessors, and is indispensable for great Public Libraries.

"The last decade of the nineteenth century will probably be known hereafter as the age of lexicography. Apart from the monumental New English Dictionary, upon which Dr. Murray and Mr. Bradley are labouring with a precision of detail never before attempted, the Clarendon Press has at present in hand no less than four other great lexicographical works: Dean Payne Smith's Thesaurus Syriacus and Prof. Toller's revision of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary—both now nearly completed; the Hebrew Lexicon of the Old Testament, by American and English scholars, and the Concordance to the Septuagint, planned by the late Edwin Hatch-both still in an early stage. For modern Oriental languages, it is sufficient to mention Prof. Salmoné's Arabic, and Dr. Steingass's Persian Dictionary, each of which received pecuniary help from the Secretary of State for India. And now we are promised a new Chinese-English Dictionary, by Mr. Herbert A. Giles, H.B.M. consul at Ning-po, whose name already stands on the title-page of some seventeen sinological books.

The work was projected by the author as far back as 1874, and he has been carrying it on at intervals ever since. The entire plan, and by far the greater part of the execution, are his own. But, of course, he has not disdained to utilize the previous labours of others, or to accept help from his colleagues in the consular service, and from native scholars. Two years were devoted to the arrangement and transcription of the material; and the printing at Shanghai, by Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, has taken about twelve months. It will be published very shortly, in a quarto volume of fifteen hundred pages, by Mr. Bernard Quaritch.

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