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THORN (Major William) A Memoir of the War in India, conducted by General Lord Lake, etc. on the banks of the Hyphasis: with historical sketches, topographical descriptions, and statistical observations. 4to. Lond. 1818. THORNTON (Edward) The History of the British Empire in India. 4 Vols. TIPU SULTAN. The History of the Reign of Tipú Sultán: being a continuation of the Neshani Hyduri," written by Mir Hussein Ali Khan Kirmani. Translated from an original Persian manuscript by Colonel W. Miles. 8vo.

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Lond. 1844.

[Oriental Translation Fund Publications, No. LXVII.] USSIEUX (Louis D') Histoire abrégée de la Découvertes et de conquête des Indes par les Portugais. 12mo. A Bouillon, 1770. WILSON (Horace Hayman, F.R.S.) The History of British India, from 1805 to 1835: being a Continuation (Volumes VII. VIII. IX.) of The History of British India by James Mill. 8vo. 3 Vols. Lond. 1845-1848.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

REPORT from the Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to enquire into the present state of the East India Company, and into the Trade between Great Britain, the East Indies, and China: with the Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix. (Printed by Order of the Court of Directors.) 4to. Lond. 1830.

Appendix to the Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords. 4to.

Lond. 1830.

Reports from the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the present state of the Affairs of the East India Company: with the Minutes of Evidence, an Appendix of Documents, and an Index. 4to. Lond. 1830. Third Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons: with Minutes of Evidence, Accounts and Papers laid before the Committee, and an Index. 4to.

Lond. 1832. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the affairs of the East India Company, Febr. 14th to July 27th, 1832. I. Public. 4to. Lond. 1833.

Minutes of Evidence: February 9th to August 1st, 1832. III. Revenue.

4to. Lond. 1833. Appendix to the Report of the Select Committee: Aug. 16th, 1832. II. Finance and Accounts: Trade. Parts I. II. Commercial. 4to. Lond. 1833.

Papers respecting the Negociation with His Majesty's Ministers, on the subject of the East India Company's Charter and the Government of His Majesty's Indian territories, for a farther term after the 22nd of April, 1834: together with a copy of the Bill, as passed by the House of Commons and the House of Lords, "for effecting an arrangement with The East India Company, and for the better Government of His Majesty's Indian-territories, till the 30th day of April, 1854:" also of the Bill "for Regulating the Trade to China and India " 4to. Lond. 1833. Reports and Documents connected with the proceedings of The East India Company, in regard to the Culture and Manufacture of Cotton-Wool, Raw Silk, and Indigo, in India. 8vo. Lond. 1836.

CHINA.

(CATALOGUE VOLUME I. PAGES 485, 486. VOLUME III. PAGES 299, 300.)

BALL (Samuel) An account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea in China: derived from personal observation during an official residence in that country from 1804 to 1826. 8vo. Lond. 1848. BINGHAM (Commander J. Elliot) A narrative of the Expedition to China, from the commencement of the war to the present period: with sketches of the manners and customs of that singular, and hitherto almost unknown country. 12mo. 2 Vols. Lond. 1842. FORBES (Lieut. F. E.) Five Years in China, from 1842 to 1847: with an account of the occupation of the Islands of Labuan and Borneo by Her Majesty's forces. 8vo. Lond. 1848.

HALDE (Jean Baptiste Du) A description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary; together with the Kingdoms of Korea and Tibet: containing the geography and history, natural as well as civil, of those countries. Translated from the French, with notes geographical, historical, and critical. Folio. 2 Vols. Lond. 1738-1741.

JULIEN (Stanislas) Le Livre des Récompenses et des Peines, en Chinois et en Français; accompagnées de quatre cents Légendes, anecdotes, et histoires, qui font connâitre les doctrines, les croyances, et les mœurs, de la Secte de Tao-ssé. Traduit du Chinois. 8vo. Paris, 1835. [Oriental Translation Fund Publications, No. XLIII.]

KIDD (Rev. Samuel) A Catalogue of the Chinese Library of The Royal
Asiatic Society. 8vo.
Lond. 1838.

LANGDON (William B.) Ten Thousand Things relating to China and the
Chinese: an epitome of the genius, government, history, literature,
agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs, and social life, of the people
of the Celestial Empire; together with a synopsis of the Chinese Col-
lection. 8vo.
Lond. 1842.

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LAY (G. Tradescant) The Chinese as they are: their moral, social, and literary character; a new analysis of the language; with succinct views of their principal arts and sciences. 8vo. Lond. (Aberdeen) 1841. MARTIN (Robert Montgomery) China, Political, commercial, and social: Treaties and intercourse with England, Russia, France, etc.: description of the Consular ports of Canton, Amoy, Foo-Choo, Ningpo, and Shanghai; also of Hong-Kong, Chusan, Macao, and Kiachta. Reports on the Tea-trade, Opium-traffic, banking, etc. as furnished by Her Majesty's Government. 8vo. 2 Parts. Lond. 1847. THORNTON (Thomas) A History of China, from the earliest Records to the Treaty with Great-Britain in 1842. Volume I. 8vo. Lond. 1844.

THE EASTERN SEAS AND ISLANDS.

(CATALOGUE VOLUME III. PAGE 301.)

BENNETT (J. W., F.L.S.) Ceylon and its capabilities; an account of its natural-resources, indigenous-productions, and commercial facilities: to which are added details of its statistics, pilotage, and sailing-directions; and an appendix containing the Royal Charter of Justice, the Kandyan-Convention of 1815, etc.

4to.

Lond. 1843. DAVY (John, M.D., F.R.S.) An account of the Island of Ceylon and of the inhabitants. 4to. Lond. 1821. HORSFIELD (Thomas, M.D.) Plantæ Javanicæ rariores descriptæ iconibusque illustratæ, quas in Insulâ Java, annis 1802-1818, legit et investigavit T. Horsfield, M.D. Parts I. II. III. 4to. Londini, 1838-1844. Low (Hugh) Sarawak; its inhabitants and productions: being notes during a residence in that country with the Rajah Brooke. Svo. Lond. 1848. MALAYAN MISCELLANIES. Volume II. Printed and Published at the Sumatran Mission-Press, Bencoolen. 1822. MOOR (J. H.) Notices of the Indian Archipelago and adjacent countries : being a collection of Papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine Islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin-China, Malayan-peninsula, etc., accompanied by an index and six maps. 4to. Singapore, 1837. MUNDY (Captain Rodney) A Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the occupation of Labuan; from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq., Rajah of Sarawak and Governor of Labuan: together with a narrative of the operations of H.M.S. Iris. 8vo. 2 Vols. Lond. 1848.

8vo.

PRIDHAM (Charles, F.R.G.S.) The Mauritius and its dependencies.

8vo.

Lond. 1846.

An historical, political, and statistical account of Ceylon and its dependencies. 8vo. 2 Vols. Lond. 1849.

THORN (Major William) A Memoir of the Conquest of Java, with the subsequent operations of the British Forces in the Oriental Archipelago. To which is added a statistical and historical sketch of Java, with an account of its dependencies. 4to. Lond. 1815. TITSINGH (-) Illustrations of Japan: consisting of private memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Dynasty of the Djogours, or Sovereigns of Japan; a description of the feasts and ceremonies observed throughout the year at their court, and of the ceremonies customary at marriages and funerals: to which are subjoined observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, etc. Translated from the French by Frederick Shoberl. 4to. Lond. 1822.

THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF

AFRICA.

(CATALOGUE VOLUME I. PAGES 486–489.

VOLUME III. PAGES 302-307.)

12mo.

BLOFELD (J. H.) Algeria, past and present: containing a description of the country, the Moors, Kabyles, Arabs, Turks, Jews, Negroes, Cologlies, and other inhabitants; their habits, manners, customs, etc., together with notices of the animal and vegetable productions, minerals, climate, etc., with a view of its history. 8vo. Lond. 1844. BUNBURY (Charles J. F., F.L.S.) The Journal of a residence at the Cape of Good Hope; with excursions into the interior and notes on the Natural-history and native tribes. 12mo. Lond. 1848. CHASE (John Centlivres) The Cape of Good Hope and Algoa-bay, etc., with statistics of the Colony. Edited by Joseph S. Christophers. Lond. 1843. CHRISTOPHER (J. S.) Natal, Cape of Good Hope: comprising descriptions of this well-endowed Colony from the year 1575 to the present time, by government-officials and travellers: with an appendix and a Vocabulary of the Natal or Zulu language. Svo. Lond. 1850. CUMMING (Roualeyn Gordon) Five years of a Hunter's life in the far interior of South Africa: with notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, etc. The Second edition. 12mo. 2 Vols. Lond. 1850. HAY (John H. Drummond) Western Barbary: its wild tribes and savage animals. Square 8vo. Lond. 1844.

JACKSON (James Grey) An account of the Empire of Marocco, and the districts of Suse and Tafilelt. To which is added an account of shipwrecks on the west coast of Africa, and an interesting account of Timbuctoo, the great emporium of Central-Africa. The Second edition, corrected, newly arranged, and considerably enlarged. 4to.

Lond. 1811.

WALCOTT (S.) Information for Emigrants to the Cape of Good Hope and Port Natal, in the shape of question and answer. the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.

A Tract issued by Svo. Lond. 1850.

EGYPT AND NUBIA.

(CATALOGUE VOLUME I. PAGES 486-488.

VOLUME III. PAGES 302-307.)

ATHANASI (Giovanni D') A Catalogue of the residue of a most interesting Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: sold by auction by S. L. Sotheby and Co. July 27th, 1845. 8vo. [Tracts by D'Athanasi.] Lond. BEKE (Charles Tilston, Phil. Dr., F.S.A., F.R.G.S.) Tracts on the Geography, Languages. Religion, Antiquities, etc. of the countries of the Persian-Gulf, the Nile, and Abyssinia. 8vo.

London, Edinburgh, Leipzig, and Paris, 1835-1851.

1. On the Ancient and Modern formation of Delta in the Persian-Gulf by the Euphrates and Tigris, in Answer to Mr. Beke, by W. G. CARTER. From The Philosophical Magazine.

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1835. 2. On the Geological evidence of the Advance of the Land at the head of the PersianGulf, by C. T. Beke. From The Philosophical Magazine. 1835. 3. On the Complexion of the Ancient Egyptians. From the Transactions of The Royal Society of Literature. 1836. 4. On the former Extent of the Persian-Gulf, and on the Non-identity of Babylon and Babel in Reply to Mr. Carter. From The Philosophical Magazine. 1836. 5. Vertheidigung gegen Herrn Dr. Paulus, in Betreff seiner Recension über meine Origines Biblicae."

Leipzig, 1836.

6. Additional Remarks on the former Extent of the Persian-Gulf. From The Philosophical Magazine.

1837.

7. On the Countries South of Abyssinia.

1843.

8. Abyssinia: a statement of Facts relative to Transactions between the Writer and the late British political Mission to the Court of Shoa.

1845.

9. A Statement of Facts, etc. The Second edition.

1846.

10. Notice of the Presentation to Dr. Beke of the Gold Medal of The Geographical Societies of London and Paris in 1844 and 1845.

11. On the Languages and Dialects of Abyssinia and the Countries to the South. From the Proceedings of The Philological Society.

12. An Essay on the Nile and its Tributaries.

1845.

1847.

13. Mémoire-Justificatif en Réhabilitation des Pères Pierre Paez et Jérome Lobo, Missionaires en Abyssinie, en ce qui concerne leurs visites à la source de l'Abaï (Le Nil) et à la Cataracte d'Alata. Extrait de Bulletin de la Société de Geographie. Puris (1848.)

14. An Essay on the Sources of the Nile and the Mountains of the Moon. Edinb. 1848. 15. On the Sources of the Nile: being an attempt to assign the Limits of the Basin of that River. Read before The Syro-Egyptian Society, Jan. 9th, 1849.

16. On the Korarima, or Cardemom of Abessinia. From The Pharmaceutical Journal.

17. Christianity among the Gallas. From The British Magazine.

1847. 1847.

18. Remarks on the Mats' háfa Tomár, or "the Book of the Letter;" an Ethiopic Manuscript in the Library of The University of Tübingen, containing an account of a Letter, which is said to have descended from heaven to St. Athanasius. Read before The Syro-Egyptian Society, Feb. 8th, 1848.

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