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William Robertson's An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India and Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson, first editions of both.
William Robertson's An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India and Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson, first editions of both.
William Robertson's An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India and Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson, first editions of both.

ROBERTSON, William.

An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with the country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy - the laws and judicial proceedings - the arts - the sciences - the religious institutions, of the Indians. [with] Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson, D.D. F.R.S.E.

London, Strahan, 1791; 1801.

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An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India;

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Robertson was encouraged in this work by his reading of Major James Rennell's Memoir on the Map of Hindustan, 1783 and also by Edward Gibbon. The work ends with a hope that the account 'of the early and high civilization of India, and of the wonderful progress of its inhabitants in elegant arts and useful science, may have some influence upon the behaviour of Europeans towards that people'.

First editions; 2 vols in 1, 4to (28 x 22.5 cm); 2 large folding maps, second a little misfolded; contemporary full diced calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine in six gilt compartments with later gilt calf lettering piece, all edges speckled red, extremities a little rubbed, a very good copy; xii, 364, [xii]; 202, [i] pp.

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William Robertson's An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India and Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson, first editions of both.

An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India;

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