Lot#19 || The Works of Sir William Jones
Lady Anna Marie Shipley Jones
(1799)
12.00 x 9.50 x 2.00 in
Estimate
₹ 7,25,000 -
₹ 9,50,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection
CATALOGUE NOTES NON EXPORTABLE ITEM First Edition Six Volumes Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; and R.H. Evans, London One of the few individuals who studied of India in all its variations was Sir William Jones; he was also the founder of the Asiatic Society of India at Calcutta and Bombay Several engravings inside Incudes elucidated verses from Hitopadesa, Kalidasa's Shakuntala, and Hymns to Camdeo, Durga, Indra, Surya, Lacshmi, Narayena, Sereswaty, Ganga, Ramayan, Veda, and Law of Bailments. Provenance: Bath Public Reference Library.