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A phrase book for Arabic, specially the Basrah dialect, by Reginald Campbell Thompson in co-operation with Elias Georges and other Interpreters, printed By Government Central Branch Press, Simla, to be used by soldiers during the Mesopotamia campaign WW1. With parallel translations of terminologies and phrases in English. It has 21 pages.

A loose plate with photograph of "Buddha from Pangkalan, Ipoh, Perak". Black and white photograph loose sheet from a book or journal.

A Maldivian Nakaiyterikaṅ (astrology) manuscript. At the commencement of the manuscript it is titled in English, "Nek-ket Were-ingay foy which means our conjuring book". This is followed by an explanation of its use, e.g. in consulting before undertaking a voyage. This copy was made in September 1817 by Nalle Tandy, a "Chitty man" who was the interpreter of the Maldivian language.

"A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry by Richard F. Burton, author of 'A System of Bayonet Exercises' (1853)". (London: William Clowes & Sons 1876.) Red cloth binding, gold lettering on front with crossed swords.

A New Theory on the Origins of Mohism draft by Chow Tse-tsung (University of Wisconsin), eventually published in Wen-lin: Studies in the Chinese Humanities, Vol. 2 (1968) presented at the 27th International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, 1967.

Description: Blue and yellow patterned soft cover notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 50 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi Glossary. On the inside cover there is a list of all the sources used and their respective abbreviations. West also notes the words that don't appear in any glossary.

Description: Black hard cover notebook with unruled pages, written in ink. Some inserts. Identified as West 58 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Observations of Germany Drawings of two buildings in Germany with structural descriptors (i.e. size, width, height) "Atlantic cable of 1866" progress table with distance and percentage covered "Guesses at the meaning of 666, quoted by Professor DeMorgan from Mr. David Thom's 'The number and names of Apocalyptic Beasts' Part I, 1848, 8vo A Pahlavi Glossary in transcription with some translation and sparse references

Description: Large white unruled notebook, no cover, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 46 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi-English glossary. References are given in numbers referring, most likely, to volumes and pages of West's own copies (according to de Menasce's list).

Description: Unbound notebook with loose folios from the same, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 51 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• A Pahlavi-English Glossary of V (Vendidad, Spiegel)
• W (Visparad Sp. as given in H. 6, see MS., vols. 3, p. 207)
• C = MS. vol. 3 (page and line ref. all words glossarized except those in list), from pp. 33 - 109, but afterwords only rare words
• M = MS. vol. 13, only rare words glossarized .

Inserts:

• Words to be omitted in Glossary
• Reference to Zend sentences
• Inscriptions of Cyrus
• list of Latin abbreviations commonly found in dictionaries

Description: Brown hardcover notebook, unruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 52 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• "Most valuable notes as regards to 'Dinkard,' etc
  *." A Pahlavi-English Glossary with full references to Denkart Bks. VII - IX
• "Pazand Texts prepared by Dastur Hoshangji"

Inserts:

• several folios and scraps of paper containing calculations on lines and number of words, rough drafts of paragraphs of future essays, fragments of translation, word meanings, "additional Huzvarish words"
• additional Hebrew-Huzvarish words;
• "notes from Prof. M. J. Muller's 'Essai en la Langue Pehlive,' Paris 1839"
• omission of words from glossary, diagram that seems like a map to a library or a possible ordering of books or a potential reading method; Some of the inserts in the latter part of the book are loose pages.