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• Im fernen Osten: Reisen des Grafen Béla Széchenyi in Indien, Japan, China, Tibet und Birma in den Jahren 1877-1880 (In the Far East: Count Béla Széchenyi's travels in India, Japan, China, Tibet, and Burma in the years 1877-1880)
  Description of an Austrio-Hungarian scientific mission under the leadership of Graf Béla Széchenyi in the 1870s, by steamship from Trieste to Bombay (and later onwards towards China and Japan) described and written by Gustav Kreitner based on his own observations, including his own illustrations/woodcuts. His description is focused on local life, particularly monuments and perceived ‘religions’.
• Indianische Raisz von dreyen Ehrwurdigen Priestern der Societet Iesu (The Indian Voyage of Three Venerable Priests of the Society of Jesus)
  German translation from 1620-1621 consisting of a series of (edited) letters translated from Italian and French, and added unto each other in order to promote the Jesuit missions to Asia, in particular the 1618 expedition from Lisbon led by Jesuit priest Nicolas Trigault. The mission’s main object was reaching China, for which its members were primarily known, yet they passed by and worked in Goa for some time, hence their correspondence contains lesser-known descriptions of India.
• Lampa k Hatha-jógu (The Lamp to Hatha-yoga)
  Translation of a preface to the Hatha-yoga pradipika, by the Czech occultist, mystic, and writer Karel Weinfurter, originally published in 1936.