A Concise Grammar of the Hindustani Language, to which are added, Selections for Reading..... With a Vocabulary, Dialogues, Twelve Fac-similes of Persian and Devanagari writing, &c. By the Rev. George Small, M. C. P., Teacher of Oriental Languages;....
by EASTWICK (E. B.)
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London: Bernard Quaritch, Oriental Publisher, 1858. Second Edition, enlarged, 12 plates (one folding), [2], ii, iii, [1], 125, [1], 56, [28] pp., original pebbled cloth, rather soiled, head and tail of spine frayed, upper inner hinge shaken.
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- A Concise Grammar of the Hindustani Language, to which are added, Selections for Reading..... With a Vocabulary, Dialogues, Twelve Fac-similes of Persian and Devanagari writing, &c. By the Rev. George Small, M. C. P., Teacher of Oriental Languages;....
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- EASTWICK (E. B.)
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- Hardcover
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- London: Bernard Quaritch, Oriental Publisher, 1858
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