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Verlag: New York, The Altai Press, n.d. (1980)., 1980
Anbieter: Plesse Antiquariat Minzloff, Bovenden, Deutschland
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xii + 204 + 40 pp. Very good condition. Classic work on the language of Tibet, in a beautiful reprint in the original large format. - Wird als Paket zu Euro 8,00 versandt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 28 x 22 cm. Original silver decorated cloth hardback.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V., Amsterdam, Niederlande
Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press, 1834 [Reprint - Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1984]. XVI,204 [40] pp. Orig. hardcover. (Collected Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös).
Verlag: 1834, 1834
Anbieter: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Schweden
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4to. Pp. xii, 204, one blank, pp. 40 with lithographed syllabic plates. The plates are numbered 1-40 but no. 15 is blank, as issued! (However we have found a library copy which has no.15 containing characters). Late 19th century half calf, spine ruled in black and with title lettered in gilt, rubbed. Front joint weakened. Marbled endpapers. Private exlibris label on front paste down (Dr. Wolfgang E. Scharlipp). Traces of front paper wrapper on inner margin of half title. Some minor browning.First edition of the first Tibetan grammar in English. Csoma de Korös (or Alexander Csoma of Koros) was a Hungarian orientalist who was known to be literate in more than ten languages. Considered the founder of Tibetology, he was one of the first Europeans to learn Tibetan. In 1819 he travelled to the East to find the old Hungarian homeland somewhere in Central Asia. But during the journey he received a book on Tibet and decided to stay in Leh and learn Tibetan. During his three trips to Tibet, he perfected the language in various monasteries with the help of local monks. He died in Darjeeling while attempting a journey to Lhasa in 1842 and a memorial was erected in his honour by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Rare. Cordier BS 2930. Yakushi (1984) C160. Vater p. 400. Not in Löwendahl.
Anbieter: ASHER Rare Books, T Goy Houten, Niederlande
XII, 204, [1 blank], 40, [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of the first Tibetan-English grammar book, written by the Hungarian philologist, orientalist and linguist Alexander Csoma de Korös (1784-1842). Csoma de Korös studied oriental languages in Göttingen from 1816 to 1818, where he was known for the fact that he mastered at least 13 languages. Afterwards he travelled to the East, to Lahore. He met the famous English explorer William Moorcroft (1767-1825), who was employed by the East India Company, who asked him to learn the Tibetan language, and by his various travels through the Middle East, Central Asia and India, he became one of the first Europeans to master the Tibetan language. He owed much of his success to several local lamas who tutored him and to the fact that he could immerse himself in a study of not only the Tibetan language, but also of the core of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist literature.With an owner's inscription dated 7 July 1954 and two leaves written in another hand of someone who was practising Tibetan words and their meaning. In very good condition. A complete copy of the first Tibetan-English grammar book, rarely offered for sale complete.l Trübner's catalogue of dictionaries and grammars of the principal languages and dialects of the world (1882), p. 157; Cf. Prem Singh Jina, Famous western explorers to Ladakh (2004), pp. 28-29.