15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 128
 

128

Paolino da San Bartolomeo [Wesdin, Johann Philipp] A Voyage to the East Indies. Printed by J....

Paolino da San Bartolomeo [Wesdin, Johann Philipp]
A Voyage to the East Indies. Printed by J. Davis, Chancery Lane, 1800. 8vo, modern green crushed morocco, spine with contrasting morocco lettering-piece; pp. [i-v], vi-xii, [1]-478 (lacking final advertisement leaf); one eng. plate of hierogyphics, example of music to text. First English edition, translated by William Johnston from the annotated German translation by John Reinhold Forster.
Rare and important travel account by a Austrian Carmelite missionary, an expert in languages credited with the first Sanskrit Grammar, and one of the first Orientalists to comment on the close relationship between Indian and European languages. Part of the value of the book was the correction of orthogrphy relating to the naming of places in India, aiming to create a uniform nomenclature. ESTC T95852
Not Sold

 

. Binding with some marking to upper board, variable spotting, foxing, toning et al internally, offsetting to and from plate, still a very good copy of a rare work.

 


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