Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1860
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. One ae supplied by Ae a Ma be found, we think, in no other Hindustani or Hindi '_ grammar—we mean specimens of the Kaithi or running Hindi character, which i i used in the Bengal Prosidendyt : ' cual oo ___. ** We feel bound to acknowledge the utility of Mr. Small’s labours, and can conscientiously recommend his book.’’—The Homeward Mail, 16th June, 1858. ‘© All the officers who were well acquainted with the Hindoostanee being selected for staff appointments, only those were left in most regiments who kadWing but little of the langnage, had but little intercourse with their men, and therefore they learnt nothing of this (mutinous spirit), except in one or.two corps where some chance linguist remained, and those corps have generally not mutinied, as their officers learnt their complaints, and explained the matter to them.’’ ‘ ule ; : Letter from Thehim, May 30, 1857. z Hindustani Dictionary. possie’s (Capt. B. 8.) Pocket Dictionary of English and Hindustani, feap. 8vo. (pub. at 8s) cloth, 2s 6d 1847 aa Persian Dictionary. TUCKER'S (W. T.) Pocket Dictionary of English and Persian, feap. 8vo. with the pronunciation, (pub. at 7s) cloth, 2s 6d 1850 G $ bb Persian Poetry : RUBAIYAT or OMAR KHAYYAM, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, translated into English Verse, 8vo. sd.1s 1859 «‘Qmar Khayy4m is a Persian poet who is little known in Persia, and who is still less known in Europe. Verbosity was certainly not one of his characteristics, and wanting this, he might possibly lack the passport to Oriental fame ; but if the astronomer-poet of Persia appears as well in his na- tive garb as he appears in English, it is certainly high time that he should be brought out of his obscurity. We learn that he was born at Naishapur, in Khorassan, in the latter half of the eleventh century, and died within the first quarter of the twelfth. He was much more celebrated for his astronomical and mathematical studies and acquirements than for his poetiillonrers ; and yet it would appear that his poems are the only remains which have been preserved to perpetuate his memory. We must thank the modest translator of this powerful and original poet for the valuable contribution—slight, so far as bulk is concerned, though it be—which he has made to our cur- _ rent literature. Never was the Gospel of Despair preached more fervently than it is in the pages of Khayyam, and few of our modern fatalists could express their convictions with so much terse vigour, or deck their repulsive theories with so many quaint beauties, as this Eastern poet and sage.” . The Literary Gazette, Oct. 1, 1859. . e Portuguese Early Voyages. ROTEIRO pz DOM IOAM pr CASTRO, da Viagem que Fizeram os Portuguezes ao Mar Roxo no anno de 1541, commandos pelo Governador da India Dom Estrvam pa GaMmA: com o sitio, e Pintura de Todo o sino Arabico em dezesete mappas ; Tirado 4 luz pela primeira vez do manuscrito original: accrescentado com o Ttinerarium Maris Rubri, os Retratos do Author, e de D. Estevam da Gama, fac similes da sua letra, etc. etc. etc.; pelo Doutor Antonio Nunes de Car- vaLHo, Professor na Universidade de Coimbra, 8vo. liv, x and 386 pp. portraits of Dom. J. de Castro, and of D. Est. da Gama, also a facsimile map of the Rep Sea, to accompany the Appendix “ Joannis de Castro Sinus Arabici seu Maris Rubri, quod navigavit, ejusdem Insularum, littorum, portuum, rupium vadorum, brevium, locorumque confinium, quotquot vidit et perlustravit, ad fines usque Aethiopiae accurata descriptio,” sd. 2s 6d Paris, 1833 dd —— the same, F1nz Papmr, Svo. sd. 4s 1833 ee — the same, Fine Paver, 8vo. hf. morocco, 5s 6d * 1833 All geographical writers bear a high testimony to D. Joao de Castro’s merits as an Early discoverer in the Eastern Seas, between Abyssinia to India. To students of Indian History the above work will be particularly interesting. es XV.) ahora por primera vez dado a luz, con notas y comentarios, imp. 8vo. Ixxxvili and 732 pp. with 2 facimiles,sd.12s - Madrid, 1851 the same, hf. bound morocco, uncut, 18s 1851 Of this valuable collection of 576 Old Romances, only 500 copies were printed, of which few re- main for sale. The introduction cozaprises an essay on the Castilian Poetry during the 13th and 15th Obsolete Words.