An Historical Disquisition Concerning The Knowledge Which The Ancients Had Of India And The

by William Robertson

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First edition

London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1791. First edition, 4to, pp. xii, 364, 12 ; 2 large engraved folding maps; recent quarter brown calf over marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; fore margin of one map miscreased. This copy with the ownership signature on the half-title of C. Wm. Admiral Duff. Encouraged by his friend, Edward Gibbon, Robertson, the leading Scottish historian of his day, undertook this history of ancient India. He concludes with the

• Binding: Leather

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