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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL -- Asiatick Researches, or Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the History, the Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia. Calcutta: Manuel Cantopher, and London: P. Elmsly, 1788-1798.
Volumes I-V, 4° (309 x 234 mm). 72 engraved plates, 16 folding, numerous woodcut diagrams and tables (2 pages torn and repaired without loss, short tear to 4 folding plates, paper flaw to 2 leaves slightly affecting text, some light marginal worming). Contemporary Indian red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments with bear crest in lower compartment on vols. I-III, g.e. (rubbed, spine repaired). Provenance: Robert Chambers (founder member of the Society, booklabel, his crest on spines, inscription on title verso in vol. II, some marginal notes.
Robert Chambers (1787-1803) embarked to Bengal in 1774 after being appointed the second judge of its supreme court of judicature. He spent 25 years in Calcutta, during which years he was elected president of the Asiatic Society in 1797, in succession to Sir William Jones and Lord Teignmouth. (5)
Volumes I-V, 4° (309 x 234 mm). 72 engraved plates, 16 folding, numerous woodcut diagrams and tables (2 pages torn and repaired without loss, short tear to 4 folding plates, paper flaw to 2 leaves slightly affecting text, some light marginal worming). Contemporary Indian red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments with bear crest in lower compartment on vols. I-III, g.e. (rubbed, spine repaired). Provenance: Robert Chambers (founder member of the Society, booklabel, his crest on spines, inscription on title verso in vol. II, some marginal notes.
Robert Chambers (1787-1803) embarked to Bengal in 1774 after being appointed the second judge of its supreme court of judicature. He spent 25 years in Calcutta, during which years he was elected president of the Asiatic Society in 1797, in succession to Sir William Jones and Lord Teignmouth. (5)