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Abhandlungen und Vortraege des Fuenften Internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses, Berlin 1881, 2. Haelfte, illust. 1st ed., 1882, in German, English and French - Abhandlungen und Vortraege des Fuenften Internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses, Berlin 1881, Zweite Haelfte, illust. 1st ed., 1882, in German, English and French Papers and lectures of the Fifth International Congress of Orientalists, Berlin 1881, Second Half, 1st ed., 1882, in German, English and French Abhandlungen und Vorträge des Fünften Internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses gehalten zu Berlin im September 1881. Zweite Haelfte: Abhandlungen und Vorträge des Indogermanischen und der Ostasiatischen Section Proceedings and lectures of the Fifth International Congress of Orientalists held in Berlin in September 1881. Second half: Proceedings and lectures of the Indo-European and East Asian Sections Berlin, 1882., 332 + 86 pp. illustr. by 2 chromolithographed plates. Hard cover, size: 22 x 15 cm. Condition: cover worn, rubbed, corners bumped; tear to hinge of spine; stains and scribbles to endpapers; a scrap of paper was torn out to lower part of frontispiece; tear to one chromolithograph; some stains to chromolithographs; minor staining inside; yellow, light brown paper. Weight: 855 gr. The International Congress of Orientalists, initiated in Paris in 1873, was an international conference of Orientalists (initially mostly scholars from Europe and the USA). The first thirteen meetings were held in Europe; the fourteenth congress was held in Algiers in 1905 and some of the subsequent conferences were also held outside Europe. Papers were primarily about philology and archaeology. The Proceedings of the Congresses were published. The work of the International Congress of Orientalists is carried on by the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies