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November 17, 2013 11:00 AMCalender
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Firishta (1560-1620) The History of Hindostan. trans. Alexander Dow (1736-1779)

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$480$400
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2687BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 17, 2013 11:00AM

Description:

Firishta (1560-1620) The History of Hindostan. trans. Alexander Dow (1736-1779). London: for Becket and de Hondt, 1770.
Second edition, two large quarto volumes, with a frontispiece in volume one and added [?] illustrations in volume two; table of contents in volume two supplied in facsimile, bound in uniform khaki buckram.
[and] Thomas Maurice's (1754-1824) The History of Hindostan, its Arts, and its Sciences, London: Bulmer & Co., 1795-98, two large quarto volumes, text not collated, lacking some plates in each volume, in uniform calf, rebacked, leather very dry. (4)
Estimate $400-600


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London, Alexander Dow, Thomas Maurice, Bulmer & Co.