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Maps on European paper, some with cloth backing, various size. (1) Pictorial map of the country between the Irrawaddy and Salween rivers in the area east of Mandalay. Towns and administrative seats marked in Burmese. (2) Another pictorial map, in red, green and black, of the same region. (3)...
Contents include: History of Myan Aung pagoda; statement of Hanthawaddy Thugyi made in 1864; letter from people of Rangoon requesting the appointment of a Thathanapaing; various letters from Burmese officials on administrative matters; list of thaik sa or prophesies; copy of the treaty negotiated...
Contents include: copies of inscriptions at Mandalay, copied in 1862; laws on inheritance and division of property within a family; Maṅʿʺ chakʿ rāhavaṅʿ khyupʿ laṅkā (verses on the duties of a king) copied in 1863; document on calculating Burmese eras; History of Nanda pagoda and cave at Pagan; c...
A Turkish anthology of poetry taken mainly from the Divan-i Muhammedi, the Shahiri and the Chazali. A collection of Turkish poems primarily in English translation, sometimes in both prose and verse, made by T. G. Athough the three works seem to be separate, they cannot be identified. No mahles ...
A monthly handwritten journal of Georgian workers. This journal obviously aimed to spread propaganda amongst peasants and workers. The articles are naive; some of them, especially those in verse, sound more like prayers or dreams of the better times to come rather then fuming revolutionary ca...
Three visitors books from the Kinryūin Temple 金龍院 tea house, Kanazawa 金沢containing sketches, poems and comments by Japanese and Western visitors between 1856 and 1883. Original title slip on volume 3 (Or 5981 C) reads: 書画雑詩. Includes one comment in Portuguese accompanied by a portrait (vol. 3 fol...
聖跡全圖. Sheng ji chuan tu. Scenes from the life of Confucius (2 volumes).
Scope & Content:
Two concertina volumes with printed illustrations of the life of Confucius, with handwritten captions in Chinese and additional later English notes in pen. It appears to be an incompleted work containing only chapters 1-5 of 24. Written on the item in English: Plates illustrative of the Life o...