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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL (publishers). Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal.. Printed verbatim from the Calcutta Edition. London: for J.Sewell, Vernor and Hood [and others], 1799.
Volumes I-V only (of 11), 4° (272 x 209mm.). Portrait frontispiece and numerous engraved plates, maps and illustrations (some light browning). Contemporary half russia, (extremities rubbed, most joints weak). Provenance: Viscount Lismore (armorial bookplate); Clive Coates (booklabel and inscription).
An account of the travels of Samuel Turner in Tibet are included in vol.I, and vol.II contains Fr. Giuseppe's description of Nepal. These researches were published largely through the efforts of Sir William Jones to bring oriental studies to the notice of Europe. Sold, as a periodical, not subject to return. (5)
Volumes I-V only (of 11), 4° (272 x 209mm.). Portrait frontispiece and numerous engraved plates, maps and illustrations (some light browning). Contemporary half russia, (extremities rubbed, most joints weak). Provenance: Viscount Lismore (armorial bookplate); Clive Coates (booklabel and inscription).
An account of the travels of Samuel Turner in Tibet are included in vol.I, and vol.II contains Fr. Giuseppe's description of Nepal. These researches were published largely through the efforts of Sir William Jones to bring oriental studies to the notice of Europe. Sold, as a periodical, not subject to return. (5)