LXXX. P. Ferdinandus Verbiest Belga, eodem anno (1659) venit prædicatum 8. Legem in Provincia Xensi; anno sequente ex mandato regio ingressus Aulam ad ephemerides componendas; Kanghy Imperatoris anno 8 (1669) jussus administrare Kalendarium astronomicum, insuper ab Imperatore donatus Mandarinatu Taichangsù, auctus deinde alia dignitate Tungchin fusù. Ph. Couplet Cat. Pat. Soc. Jesu, ppt. 122-123. "Ferdinand Verbiest was born at Pittchens near Courtray on the 9th of October 1623, joined the Society of Jesus in 1641, came to China in 1659. (Vide the extract from Couplet's Cat. as above) and died at Pekin the 29th January 1688."* *93 The Algebra of Mohammed ben Musa, edited and translated by Frederic Rosen. London, Oriental Translation Fund, 1831, 8° 94 Om Cirklers Beroring af C. M. Guldberg. Christiana, 1861, 4° ppt., 32 pag. 95 Resultate Magnetischer, Astronomischer und Meteorologischer Beobachtungen auf einer reise nach dem östlichen Sibirien in der Jahren 1828-1830 von Professor Christoph Hausteen und Lieutenant Due. Christiana, 1863, 4o 96 A List of the reported Dangers to Navigation in the Pacific Ocean whose positions are doubtful, or not found on the Charts in general use. Washington, Gov. Print, Office, 1866, 8° 97 Report on Interoceanic Canals and Railroads between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by Admiral Charles H. Davis. Washington, Gov. Printing Office, 1867, 8° 98 Meteorological register for the years 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829 and 1830; from observations made by the Surgeons of the Army and others at the Military ports of the United States prepared under the direction of Thomas Lawson, M.D., Surgeon-General U. S. Army .... to which is appended the Meteorological register for the years 1822, 1823, 1824 and 1825, compiled under the directions of Joseph Lovell, M.D. Philadelphia, 1840, 8°, (2 copies.) 99 The same for the years 1831-1842. Washington, 1851, 8°, (2 copies.) 100 Results of Meteorological observations made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian institution, from the year 1854 to 1859 inclusive, being a report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress. 101 Message from the President of the United States communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of July 24, 1854, the fourth meteorological Report of Prof. James P. Espy. Washington, 1857, 4° 102 Report upon the Colorado River of the West, explored in 1857 and 1858, by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, under the direction of the office of explorations and surveys, A. A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical engineers in charge. By order of the Sec. of War. Washington, 1861, 4° 103 Army meteorological register for twelve years 1843 to 1854 inclusive .... Washington, 1855, 4° 104 Report of the Superintendent of the United States the progress of the survey during the year 1856. 105 The same for 1857. Washington, 1858, 4° Coast Surveys, showing "These dates were kindly given to me by the Rev. P. Pfister, S. J. to whom I am indebted for many of the particulars regarding the Members of his Society contained in this Catalogue." The dates given in many Biographical Dictionaries are most inaccurate-1630 is fixed by one of them as the year of the birth of P. Verbiest !-H. C. 106 Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Surveys, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1863. Washington, 1864, 4o VI. WORKS ON SCIENCES AND ARTS (Chinese or relating to China.) *109 Specimen Medicina Sinicæ, sive opuscula Medica ad Mentem Sinensium. edidit Andreas Cleyer .. Francofurti J. P. Zubrodt, 1682, 4° .... 110 Notes on Chinese Materia Medica by Daniel Hanbury, reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions. London, printed by John E. Taylor, 1862, 8°, 48 pag., (2 copies.) 111 First Preleminary Notice of geological explorations in China by F. Baron v. Richthofen. 8°, 12 pag. 112 Papers on Chinese Zoology by R. Swinhoe .... 8°, reprinted from the Proc. Zool. Soc. of London. *113 Résumé des principaux traités chinois sur la Culture des Muriers et l'éducation des vers à soie-traduit par Stanislas Julien. Paris, Imp. royale, 1837, 8° "This is a translation of books 72-76 of the Show she t'ung k'aou. The Baron Léon d'Hervey-Saint-Denys gives a Syllabus of the last named work, as an appendix to his 'Recherches sur l'agriculture et l'horticulture des chinois,'" (pp 221-258.) Translations: Italian Torino 1837-German, Stuttgard & Tübingen 1837-2nd ed. 1844 English, Washington 1838-Russian, St. Petersburg 1840. Vide Wylie's Notes on Chinese Literature p xxi. 114 Recherches sur l'Agriculture et l'Horticulture des Chinois .... par le Baron Léon d'Hervey Saint-Denys. Paris, Allouard & Kaeppelin, 1850, 8° 115 Chambre de Commerce de Lyon-Notice du Vert de Chine et de la teinture en vertchez les Chinois par M. Natalis Rondot .... suivie d'une étude des propriétés chimiques et tinctoriales du Lo-kao par M. J. Persoz .... et de recherches sur la matière colorante des nerpruns indigènes par M. A. F. Michel. Paris, Ch. Lahure & Cie., 1858, roy. 8o, (2 copies.) *116 Histoire et Fabrication de la Porcelaine Chinoise, ouvrage traduit du Chinois par M. Stanislas Julien ... accompagné de notes et d'additions par M. Alphonse Salvétat.... et augmenté d'un Mémoire sur la porcelaine du Japon, traduit du Japonais, par M. le Docteur Hoffmann. Paris, MalletBachelier, 1856, 8° I. LINGUISTICS. BELLES-LETTRES. A-Miscellaneous Works. 117 Sinico-Aegyptiaca-Essai sur l'origine et la Formation similaire des écritures figuratives chinoise et égyptienne, composé principalement d'après les écrivains indigènes, traduits pour la première fois dans une langue européenne par G. Pauthier. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1842, 8° *118 Lectures on the Science of Language delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, June 1861 by Max. Müller, M.A. London, Longman, 1861, 8° 119 On the Origin of Language by Hensleigh Wedgwood. London, Trübner, 1866, sm. 8° B-European Languages. *120 Le Grand Dictionnaire Français et Flamand, composé sur le Modèle des Dictionnaires de Richelet, Pomey, Tachard et Danet.... par François Halma, Amsterdam, 2nd ed., 1717, 4° *121 Dictionnaire Flamand et Français tiré de l'usage et des bons auteurs par François Halma. 2nd ed. Amsterdam et Utrecht, 1769, 4° *122 Nederduitsche Spraakkunst ten dienste der Scholen, uitgegeven door P. Weiland, te Dordrecht, 1820, 8° *123 Syntaxis of woordvoeging der Nederduitsche Taal. uitgegeven door de Maatschappy: Tot mit van't algemen. Tweede Druk, te Leiden en Deventer, 1846, 8° *124 A Gaelic Dictionary, in two parts: I. Gaelic and English, II. English and Gaelic, .... to which is prefixed a new Gaelic Grammar by R. A. Armstrong, A.M. London, James Duncan, 1825, 4° *125 A Glossorial Index to the printed English literature of the thirteenth century by Herbert Coleridge. London, Trübner, 1859, 8°, (2 copies.) 126 Suffolk Surnames by N. I. Bowditch, 3rd ed., London, Trübner; Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1861, 8° First Edition, privately printed, Boston, 1857. Second Edition, Boston, 1858, 8° 127 An Attempt to ascertain the true derivation of the names of towns and villages, and of rivers, and other great natural features of the County of Norfolk, by the Rev. George Munford. London, 1870, 8° 1 Generalities. C-Asiatic Languages. *128 Asia Polyglotta von Julius Klaproth. Paris, A. Schubart, 1823, 4o "Asia Polyglotta" Paris, Schubart, 1829, 4°, 2nd ed. corrigée et augmentée n'est par une nouvelle édition, c'est un titre nouveau, mais l'ouvrage est augmenté de 60 pages, sous le titre de: additions et améliorations. Vide 1st Part of Klaproth's Catalogue, p. 50. *129 Asia Polyglotta von Julius Klaproth-Sprachatlas. Paris, 1823, folio. 2 Tartar Languages. a Manchu-Mongol, &c. *130 Recherches sur les langues tartares ou Mémoires sur différens points de la Grammaire et de la Littérature des Mandchous, des Mongols, des Ouigours et des Tibétains, par M. Abel Remusat. Vol. I (the only one published.) Paris, Imp. roy., 1820, 4° *131 Alphabet Mantchou, rédigé d'après le Syllabaire et le Dictionnaire universel de cette Langue; par L. Langlès, 3e. éd., augmentée d'une notice sur l'origine, l'histoire et les travaux littéraires des Mantchoux actuellement maitres de la Chine. Paris, Imp. imp., 1807, 8° *132 Vollstaendige uebersicht der aeltesten Tuerkischen, Tatarischen und Mogholischen Vollkerstaemme nach Raschid-ud-din's vorgange bearbeitet von Franz von Erdmann. Kasan, 1841, 8° *133 Translation of the Ts'ing Wan-k'emung, a Chinese Grammar of the Manchu Tartar Language; with introductory notes on Manchu Literature. Shanghai-London Mission Press, 1855, 8° "Translated by A. Wylie." *184 Linguæ Mandshurica Institutiones quas conscripsit, indicibus ornavit, Chrestomathia et Vocabulario auxit Franciscus Kaulen. Ratisbona, 1856, 8° *185 Grammatik der West-Mongolischen das 1st Oirad oder Kalmükischen Sprache von H. A. Zwick. 4°, 1853. *186 Grammatik der Mongolischen Sprache; verfasst von I. J. Schmidt. Petersburg, 1831, 4° *187 M. Alexander Castrén's Grundzüge einer Tungusischen Sprachlehre nebst kurzen wörterverzeichniss herausgegeben von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg, 1856, 8° .... *188 M. Alexander Castrén's Versuch einer Koibalischen und Karagassischen Sprachlehre nebst wörterverzeichnissen aus den Tatarischen mundarten des Minussinschen kreises .... herausgegeben von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg, 1857, 8° *189 M. Alexander Castrén's Versuch einer Burjätischen Sprachlehre nebst kurzem herausgegeben von Anton Schiefner. St. Peters Wörterverzeichniss burg, 1857, 8° *140 M. Alexander Castrén's Versuch einer Ostjakischen Sprachlehre nebst kurzem Wörterverzeichniss .... herausgegeben von Anton Schiefner. St. Petersburg, 1858, 8° b Turkish. *141 Grammaire Turke: précédée d'un Discours préléminaire sur la langue et la littérature des nations orientales; avec un Vocabulaire volumineux, des Dialogues, un Recueil d'Extraits en Prose et en Vers .... par Arthur Lumley Davids .... traduite de l'anglais par Madame Sarah Davids, mère de l'auteur. Londres, 1836, 4° *142 Vocabulaire Français-Turc par George Rhasis. St. Petersburg, 4o *143 Primi Principi della Grammatica Turca ad uso dei Missionari apostolici di Constantinopoli composti da Cosimo Comidas de Carbognano, Costantinopolitano cavaliere aurato della S. Sede, et interprete del regio ministero di S. M. Cattolica in Costantinopoli. In Roma, 1794, 4° 3 Semitic Languages (Syriac-Arab, &c.) *144 Chrestomathia Syriaca sive S. Ephraemi Carmina Selecta ediderunt notis criticis philologicis historicis et glossario locupletissimo illustraverunt Augustus Hahn et Fried. Lud. Sieffert. Lipsia, 1825, 8° 145 Al-Mufassal, Opus de re grammatica arabicun, auctore Abu'l-Kasim Mahmud Bin'Omar Zamahs'ario ad fidem codicum manu scriptorum edidit J. P. Broch. Christianæ, 1859, 8° 146 An Essay on the Age and Antiquity of the Book of Nabathæan Agriculture to which is added an Inaugural Lecture on the Position of the Shemitic Nations in the History of Civilisation by M. Ernest Renan, London, Trübner, 1862, 12° 4 Persian Languages. *147 A Vocabulary of the Persian Language in two parts-Persian and English and English and Persian by S. Rousseau. London, 1802, 8° *148 A Grammar of the Persian Language by William Jones, Esq., 6th ed. London, 1804, 4° Eng. Ed. First Lond. 1771, 4° Lond. 1775, 4° 7th Ed. Lond. 1809, 4°=8th Ed. Lond. 1823, 4°-9th Ed. Lond. 1828. French translation, London, Cadell, 1772. 149 Sir William Jones was born in London, on the 28th Sept. 1746. Being called to the Bar in 1774, he was appointed a Judge in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal in the year 1783. His death took place at Calcutta on the 27th April 1794. The complete works of Sir W. J. were published in 6 vols. 4° (1799) with a supp. of 2 vols. 4° (1801) containing his contrib. to the Asiatic Researches. His Poetical works were published with his Life in 2 vols. 12°, London, 1807. "Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones," were written by Lord Teignmouth, Lond. 1804, 4° A Dictionary Persian, Arabic and English; with a dissertation of the Languages, Literature and Manners of Eastern Nations by John Richardson, Esq., F.S.A. .... a new edition .... by Charles Wilkins. London, 1806-1810, 2 vols. 4° 5 Indian Languages (Pali-Sanskrit.) *150 Essai sur le Pali, ou Langue sacrée de la Presqu'ile au delà du Gange, avec six planches lithographiées, et la notice des manuscrits palis de la Bibliothè que du Roi par E. Burnouf et Chr. Lassen. Paris, Dondey Dupré, 1826, 8° *151 Observations Grammaticales sur quelques passages de l'Essai sur le Pali de M. M. E. Burnouf et Lassen; par E. Burnouf. Paris, Dondey Dupré, 1827, 30 pag. 8°, *152 Méthode pour déchiffrer et transcrire les noms sanscrits qui se rencontrent dans les livres chinois ... inventée et démontrée par M. Stanislas Julien. Paris, Imp. imp., 1861, 8° 153 A practical Grammar of the Sanskrit language for the use of early students by Theodore Benfrey. Berlin, Asher-London, Trübner, 1863, 8° 6 Transgangetic Languages. a Tibetan Language-Indo-Chinese Languages. *154 Alphabetum Tibetanum Missionum Apostolicarum commodo editum....studio et labore Fr. Augustini Antonii Georgii eremitæ augustiniani. Romæ, 1762. Typis Sacra Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 2 parts bd. in 1 vol. 4° *155 Alphabetum Tangutanum sive Tibetanum Romæ, 1773. Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propay. Fide, 8° Grammatik der Tibetischen Sprache, verfasst von I. J. Schmidt, 1839, St. At the end of the vol. p. 291 "Remarks on the Siamese language by the Rev. Mr. *157 Essay towards a Dictionary Tibetan and English-prepared with the assistance of Bandé Sangs-Rgyas Phun-Tshogs, a learned lama of Zangska'r, by Alexander Csoma de Körös, Siculo-Hungarian of Transylvania during a residence at Kanam, in the Himalaya Mountains, on the confines of India and Tibet 1827-1830. Calcutta, 1834, gr. 4° Vide in the Journal of the R. As. Soc. vol. I, p. XIII "A Biographical Sketch of M. Alexander Csoma Koros, the Hungarian Traveller. Grammaire de la Langue Tibétaine par Ph. Ed. Foucaux. Paris, Imp. imp., 1858, 8° 159 For a Vocabulary of the Cochinchinese Language Vide No. 204: du Ponceau. 160 Dialogues en Langue Cochinchinoise à l'usage des Commençants et des Voyageurs par Abel Des Michels. Paris, Maisonneuve, 1869, 8°, 24 pag. 161 Discours prononcé à l'ouverture du Cours de Cochinchinois à l'école annexe de la Sorbonne (Amphithéâtre Gerson) par Abel Des Michels. Paris, Maisonneuve, 1864, ppt. 8°, 44 pag. |