Search Results: Titles starting with G from John Randall (Books of Asia)

Madras: printed for the editor at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press., 1867. First edition, pp.xii, 288. Text in German, despite the English title. A very good copy bound in contemporary or slightly later half cloth, marbled boards, spine gilt. Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682 -1719), a Dane based in Tranquebar, is believed to have been the first Protestant missionary in India. He wrote the present work in 1713, intending it as a handbook for his colleagues. The manuscript was sent to Europe for publication but was not well received and criticised by his fellow missionaries, such as A.H. Francke (1663–1727) who had been responsible for Ziegenbalg's appointment, for spreading pagan beliefs in Europe rather than helping missionary aims. Thus the dogma and modus operandi of missionaries was forged, not in aiming to understand other beliefs but in the conviction of the superiority of Christianity. COPAC shows only 1 copy, in BL.

Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume XLVIII., 1922. First edition, pp.10, vii, 90, key map and 10 large folding colour maps, mostly on scale of approx 1cm to 0.6 km. The map 1 and 2 lithographed, others heliozincographed: 1. Fathah Area. Jabal Hamrin and Jabal Makhul and the Jabal Khanuqah. (103 x 65 cm). 1918; 2. Fatnah Area. Jabal Hamrin and Jabal Makhul. With a pastedown correction slip over the lower part of title. (51 x 63 cm, approx 1cm to 1.27 km); 3. Country between Mosul and Sharqat including the Qaiyarah Area. (87 x 55 cm, approx 1cm to 1.27 km); 4. The Quwair Dome and Country between Quwair and Atlun Kupri. (52 x 66 cm). 1919; 5. The Kirkuk Area. (57 x 52 cm). 1918; 6. Tazah Khurmatu & Tauq Areas. (70 x 50 cm); 7. Kani Qadir Area. (61 x 83 cm); 8. Country between Tuz Khurmatu & Kifri. (49 x 73 cm); 9. Jabal Gilabat Area between Kifri and Qarah Tappah. (64 x 62 cm); 10. Jabal Hamrin from Opposite Tappah to Table Mountain. (91 x 57… Read More

Halle : Lippert & Schmidt, 1846. First edition, pp.51, lithographed Persian text. An very good copy in modern half calf, cloth boards, interleaved and heavily annotated in both Latin and Persian in a contemporary hand, probably Spleith's. Title page foxed, and occasional spotting elsewhere. This first publication of the introduction to the seventeenth-century Persian dictionary Farhang-i Rashidi, completed in 1654 by the learned poet Abd al-Rashid (b.Abd al-Ghafur al-Husayni al-Madani al-Tattawi, d. 1658) and dedicated to Shah Jahan, was the first appearance in print of any part of the Farhang-i Rashidi. The introduction by al-Rashid was one of the earliest serious attempts to describe the grammar of Persian, and the subsequent dictionary, though not present here, is considered one of the most authoritative, reliable, and complete Persian dictionaries. Ludwig Splieth, a German orientalist, also translated the introduction into Latin but it was never published. COPAC shows 4 copies only in… Read More