Memoirs of the life, writings and correspondence of Sir William Jones. Fifth edition.

by Lord Teignmouth by John Shaw, Lord Teignmouth

$175 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: John Hatchard, 1815. 8vo, pp. xiv, 6 , 636; engraved portrait frontispiece, plate of facsimile handwriting; mild foxing throughout; old red library rubberstamp on title, else a good, sound copy in original paper-covered boards, neatly rebacked with new paper label on spine. Jones 1746-1794 , the great Oriental scholar and co-founder with Charles Wilkins of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, was the first to discover the relationship between the

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