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"A Chinese approach to philosophy of value: Ho-kuan-tzu", essay reproduced in Unreason within Reason.

A Chinese Exposition of a Chinese poem, notes and drafts.

A Collection of Dharanis transcribed in Sanskrit, Chinese and Korean is a woodblock printed book with side-stitched binding comprising of wrapped-back sheets of paper and a plain outer cover. The title of the volume is written on the front cover along with a Royal Asiatic Society stamp. No other identifiers in English are available. The place and date of production are unknown but presumably precedes the common adoption of western binding techniques in the 1920-1930s.

Offprint of 'A comparison of Medieval Arab methods of navigation with those of the Pacific islands.' by Tibbets from 'Centro de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga', 1979.

A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise by Richard F. Burton, Lieutenant Bombay Army. (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1853.) Red cloth binding embossed decoration, gold lettering on front. Marbled endpapers. Ex libris: Cyril G R Matthey, motto Viam Prosequor. Pencilled note on verso of front free endpaper quoting N M Penzer on its extreme rarity and likely value.

Description: Red and blue patterned hardcover notebook with blue-tinted pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of contents and page numbers. Identified as West 11 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Kitab-i-Dron Yastan (from London 14)
• Kitab-i-Vazargird (from L. 24)
• Fragments of Sanskrit and Gujarati Yasna I. (from a MS. belonging to Max Muller)
• Introduction from Max Muller MS.
• "Flower of the Gulmor Tree" pressed in

Inserts:

• Paper that serves an index
• Some flowers and some leaves

An imperfect copy of the Puthen Pana or the Misiha Charitham of Johann Ernst Hanxelden. A letter inserted into the book, dated 26 January 1934, sent from L.D. Barnett to Mrs Cardew, identifies the volume and dates it as 18th century. The Puthen Pana is a poem written by Hanxleden about the life of Jesus Christ. On the front papers there is a note to state that the manuscript was given to the Society by Sir Alexander Johnston and that it is in Malayalam.

The poem consists of 14 padams. The first padam informs readers that the poem is written at the request of Antonio Pimental, Archbishop of Cranganore. The second padam focuses on the Fall of Man, fourth - the Annunciation, fifth - the Nativity, seventh - the Sermon on the Mount, tenth - the Last Supper, eleventh - the Trial and Crucifixion, the twelfth padam portrays the lament of Virgin Mary at the Crucifixion and Death of Jesus, thirteenth - the Resurrection, and the fourteenth portrays the Ascension. The 12th padam is considered the most important in the poem. But for the 12th, which is written in the metre, Nathonatha, the rest of the couplets are written in the metre, Sarpini.

Some of the pages are fragile and a few have had historic conservation repairs.

"A Cultural Approach to the Postwar Problems of Southeast Asia" by H.G. Quaritch Wales, reprinted from The Far Eastern Quarterly, May 1945, pamphlet.

"A cursory Notice of Nayakote By B.H. Hodgson, Esq. Resident at the Court of Nepal". Two copies of an unbound offprint from Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1841, concerning the Valley of Náyakόt and the Awalia people who live there. Few annotations by Hodgson, 12 pages, uncut, dated 1841.

Report from Central China Post, "Royal Asiatic Society: A Deputation Received by the King" reporting on the King receiving a deputation of the Royal Asiatic Society on the occasion of their Centenary.