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The Oriental Collections ... illustrating the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia, edited by William Ouseley. London: for Cadell and Davies, by Cooper and Graham, [1798]-1800. 3 volumes, 4° (290 x 225mm). General title in each volume, separate title for each quarterly number, 39 engraved plates, 3 engraved leaves of music and one folding letterpress table (a few words in vol. II crossed out but words still recoverable, a few plates with shorter margins, last 2 leaves and final plate in vol. III with shorter margins and small marginal wormholes, some light browning, occasional light marginal waterstaining). Late 19th-century half cloth and boards (spines a little faded, extremities quite rubbed and bumped), uncut. (3)
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