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Asiatick Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia. London: J. Swan and Co., 1801-1818.
Volumes I-XII, 8° (211 x 135mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 149 plates, tables and folding maps, 10 hand-coloured and 79 folding. (Occasional spotting and staining, a plate detached and some small tears.) Uniformly bound in 20th-century brown cloth by Kelly and Sons, red labels on spine, speckled edges (spine labels rubbed). Provenance: vols. I-VII purchased by the Royal Institution in 1801 and subsequent volumes purchased each year.
THE FIRST TWELVE YEARS of this important publication including Sir William Jones’s On the Hindus (1788): ‘This slim paper… marks a turning point in the history of linguistics and signalled the birth of comparative philology… in it Jones first revealed the similarity of Sanskrit, Greek, Gothic and Latin languages; and by so doing gave rise to the new discipline of Indo-European studies’ (PMM). In 1784 members of the East India Company with a particular interest in the history and culture of Asia formed the Asiatick (now Asiatic) Society; their interests were extremely broad and the various articles of their Transactions are extremely diverse: they feature works on ancient history, ethnology, astrology, natural history and languages. The various publications of the Asiatick Society contributed to the growing interest in the comparative study of civilisations and broadened the understanding of the East for a European readership. PMM 235.
Volumes I-XII, 8° (211 x 135mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 149 plates, tables and folding maps, 10 hand-coloured and 79 folding. (Occasional spotting and staining, a plate detached and some small tears.) Uniformly bound in 20th-century brown cloth by Kelly and Sons, red labels on spine, speckled edges (spine labels rubbed). Provenance: vols. I-VII purchased by the Royal Institution in 1801 and subsequent volumes purchased each year.
THE FIRST TWELVE YEARS of this important publication including Sir William Jones’s On the Hindus (1788): ‘This slim paper… marks a turning point in the history of linguistics and signalled the birth of comparative philology… in it Jones first revealed the similarity of Sanskrit, Greek, Gothic and Latin languages; and by so doing gave rise to the new discipline of Indo-European studies’ (PMM). In 1784 members of the East India Company with a particular interest in the history and culture of Asia formed the Asiatick (now Asiatic) Society; their interests were extremely broad and the various articles of their Transactions are extremely diverse: they feature works on ancient history, ethnology, astrology, natural history and languages. The various publications of the Asiatick Society contributed to the growing interest in the comparative study of civilisations and broadened the understanding of the East for a European readership. PMM 235.
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Please note that most books carry some evidence of Royal Institution ownership and that this wasn’t individually recorded in the catalogue. Some books have a red or black inkstamp (or a blindstamp) on the title-page or its verso; some volumes bound in the 20th Century have been stamped with the name of the Institution on a pastedown or flyleaf; some have a stamp at the foot of the spine; others have no stamps or marks other than a shelf-mark in pencil.
For a bibliography of principal references please refer to the e-catalogue or contact the department.
For a bibliography of principal references please refer to the e-catalogue or contact the department.
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Please note that the binding is 20th-century cloth
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Julian Wilson