A Contribution to the Existing Knowledge of the Eastern-Turkestan Dialect, as it is Spoken and Written at the Present Time in the Districts of Yarkand and Kashgar. [Bound with:] English-Turki Dictionary, Based on the Dialects of Kashgar and Yarkand; JARRING, Gunnar, The Uzbek Dialect of Qilich (Russian Turkestan) with Texts and Glossary; [and] The Contest of the Fruits: An Eastern Turki Allegory.

RAQUETTE, Gustaf Rikard.

Published by Helsinki & Lund: Finno-Ugrian Society & C. W. K. Gleerup 1909, 1927, 1937 & 1936

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First editions, first printings, all uncommon in commerce, of four linguistic studies of southern Xinjiang by the scholar-missionary Gustaf Raquette and his student, the diplomat Gunnar Jarring. This Sammelband includes Jarring's translation, with the original text, of the fascinating poem "The Contest of the Fruits", a 19th-century satire in which various fruits outdo each other with boasts and rebuttal. Raquette's A Contribution features translations of ten short works of literature and poetry, accompanied by the original texts with linguistic notes. Four works bound in a single vol., octavo (228 x 153 mm). Illustrations in text. Mid-century blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Cloth bright, contents clean with hint of toning, skinning on end leaves of first work where disbound from original wrappers, small closed tears at gutter of first 4 leaves of second work, text unaffected, faint tidemarks in lower margin of final work. A near-fine example.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Contribution to the Existing Knowledge of the Eastern-Turkestan Dialect, as it is Spoken and Written at the Present Time in the Districts of Yarkand and Kashgar. [Bound with:] English-Turki Dictionary, Based on the Dialects of Kashgar and Yarkand; JARRING, Gunnar, The Uzbek Dialect of Qilich (Russian Turkestan) with Texts and Glossary; [and] The Contest of the Fruits: An Eastern Turki Allegory.
• Publisher: Helsinki & Lund: Finno-Ugrian Society & C. W. K. Gleerup 1909, 1927, 1937 & 1936
• Edition: 1st Edition