THE ASIATIC MISCELLANY, Consisting Of Translations, Imitations, Fugitive Pieces, Original Productions, And Extracts From Curious Publications. By W.Chambers, Esq. and Sir W.Jones, Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort William, in Bengal, And
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Calcutta Printed, London Re-printed: for J.Wallis.sold by Lewis Bull, at Bath, & J.Binns, at Leeds, 1787., 1787. 12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 196. engraved frontis. by C.Grignion after S.Wale. contemporary calf (front cover detached, rear joint cracked, head of spine chipped, library bookplate). First Edition Thus. A reprinting, in book form, of selected pieces from the first two issues of The Asiatic Miscellany, a periodical edited by the orientalist Francis Gladwin and published at Calcutta in 1785-86. Including Hymn to Camdeo and Hymn to Narayena by Sir William Jones, Reflections on viewing the Mausoleum of Sheersham, at Safferam by Thomas Law, The Enchanted Fruit; or the Hindu Wife, An Account of Embassies and Letters between the Emperor of China and Sultan Shahrokh, translated by W.Chambers, Of the Productions and Peculiarities of the Marratta Country, &c. cfShaw 52..
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- THE ASIATIC MISCELLANY, Consisting Of Translations, Imitations, Fugitive Pieces, Original Productions, And Extracts From Curious Publications. By W.Chambers, Esq. and Sir W.Jones, Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort William, in Bengal, And
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- Calcutta Printed, London Re-printed: for J.Wallis.sold by Lewis Bull, at Bath, & J.Binns, at Leeds, 1787.
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- 1787
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