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Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]

Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia] by [BUDDHISM]. OZERAY, MICHEL-JEAN-FRANÇOIS

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Title
Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]
Author
[BUDDHISM]. OZERAY, MICHEL-JEAN-FRANÇOIS
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe, 1817. First edition. contemporary morocco over marbled boards. Very Good. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. "Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history, its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou, instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale (Paris, 1817)... "... Ozeray's book represents a landmark in the history of the Western discovery of Buddhism. Published three years after the establishment of Europe's first academic chairs for indology and sinology and just before the organized academic study of Buddhist texts began, Ozeray's reliance on images and reports by embassies and European residents in Asian countries rather than missionary literature marks a watershed, as does the author's firm advocacy of a single historical founder, his unwillingness to engage in etymological and mythological flights of fancy, and his insistence on Buddhism's status as the largest of all religions of the Orient or even of the entire world. Though the book did not reach a large pan-European readership, it was read by intellectuals interested in Buddhism such as the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, Europe's first professor of Sinology Abel-Rémusat, and the linguist Julius Klaproth. Klaproth and Abel-Rémusat were around the time of publication expressing increasing interest in Buddhism and its history. Both were involved in the birth of France's earliest Orientalist journal, the Journal Asiatique, which from the early 1820s became one of Europe's most important sources of information about Buddhism. Ozeray's book thus stands near the end of the mythological speculation period and near the beginning of organized research on Asia's greatest religion" (Urs App, The First Western Book on Buddhism and Buddha). 
Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe, 1817. Octavo, contemporary half-morocco, marbled boards and endpapers. Complete with half-title. Some scuffing to binding, small closed tear to half-title. Text in outstanding condition with large margins. SCARCE.
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Galapagos by VONNEGUT Kurt

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Galapagos
Author
VONNEGUT Kurt
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1985. First Edition. Signed. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Galapagos. (New York): Delacorte, (1985). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $1850.First trade edition of the ""best Vonnegut novel yet"" (John Irving), signed by Vonnegut with his characteristic asterisk.To writer John Irving, Galapágos is the ""best Vonnegut novel yet."" Vonnegut tells ""the story, sort of, of a second Noah's ark… He is a postmodern Mark Twain: grumpy and sentimental, antic and religious."" Vonnegut, who died in 2007, ""caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation' (New York Times). ""First trade edition"" stated on copyright page; preceded by the same year's signed limited edition. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with short closed tear to foot of spine.
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LEGEND OF A LADY: THE STORY OF RITA MARTIN by ANDREWS, Robert Hardy

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LEGEND OF A LADY: THE STORY OF RITA MARTIN
Author
ANDREWS, Robert Hardy
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
NY, COWARD-MCCANN, 1949, 1949. DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED AND A FEW CHIPS); SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDREWS TO AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR HARRIET PARSONS; ANDREWS, 1903-1976, NOTED WRITER OF OVER 40 SCREENPLAYS, INCLUDING: TARZAN GOES TO INDIA, THE HAIRY APE, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR, AND IF I HAD A MILLION FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.
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VOGUE BOOK OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY. by Devlin, Polly

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VOGUE BOOK OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY.
Author
Devlin, Polly
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 232 illus., 25 in color, by Steichen, Horst Mfan Ray, Beaton, Huene, et. al.
France 1848-1945; Politics & Anger
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France 1848-1945; Politics & Anger by Zeldin, Theodore

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France 1848-1945; Politics & Anger
Author
Zeldin, Theodore
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780192850829
Description
Oxford, Etc.: Oxford University Press, 1979. xvi, 457p., b/w maps, stiff wrappers.

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