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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full original calf, gilt on red title label mounted on upper spine, spine panel decorated in gilt. Leather split along front joint, but board is still secure. Leather shows several scuffs and abrasions, with dampstaining to lower front cover. vii,441,[20] pp., (2) folding maps at rear. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover. Mild dampstaining to lower portion of leaves extends to about p. 50, growing fainter, interior otherwise generally clean and intact, maps nicely intact with mild creasing/curling along one edge.
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
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Description: 31 x 52 cm. Removed from: Robertson, William, Historical Disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India. A very good copy, small marginal tear just touching a blank section of map.
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition. Late 19th century 3/4 black leather over marbled boards. vi, 441, [20] pages, 2 fold out maps. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Bookplate removal wear to pastedown. Foxing throughout. Offsetting to maps First map detached in two sections. Goldsmiths-Kress no. 15939.12-1. "The Disquisition falls into two main parts: the first two-thirds is a narrative of the commercial contacts India had with the outside world from ancient times to the sixteenth century; the remainder is a long appendix describing Indian culture. The narrative portion documents, gathers, and summarizes familiar but scattered material; the appendix is broadly descriptive and more innovative, following the pattern developed in the descriptive chapters of the History of America Robertson has been chiefly remembered as a historian. His four published historical works brought him considerable fame and wealth, and they helped establish historical writing as one of the foremost literary genres of Enlightenment Scotland Although in recent years both Hume and Gibbon have often been considered greater historians in terms of intellectual insight and historical comprehension, Robertson's contemporaries generally had no hesitation about making him their equal, if not superior." (ODNB)
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$131.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Half tan calf leather cover with marbled boards has heavy wear and cracked along back hinge but in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Signed by original owner, Angus Cooke, on title page. Cooke was a sergeant in the 71st Regiment of Foot in Dundalk, Scotland. He served with the Regiment throughout the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, France, and Belgium. Comes with letter of provenance.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: New edn. 8vo (8½ x 5½ ins). Contemporary polished tree calf, spine gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting gilt lettered label, gilt tooled board edges (headcap bumped and indentation at edge of spine; some light marks on boards - otherwise VG). Pp. [ii] + viii + 523 + [1] blank + 127 appendix + [3] blank, illus with engraved portrait frontispiece (light offsetting from frontis on title page; previous owners' engraved cards on front paste-down; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., (octavo), [vi], 186 pages, half-title present, engraved portrait frontispiece engraved for the trial of Maurice Margarot, some occasional slight scattered spotting. Bound in good quality twentieth century half calf, gilt ruled spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label. A VG+ copy of this rare work in an attractive binding. [Ferguson, 189]. Maurice Margarot, the son of a wine importer from France, was born in Devon in 1745. His father held radical political opinions and had been involved in the campaign to free John Wilkes from prison in 1769 and was a member of the Bill of Rights Society. Educated at the University of Geneva, Margarot was living in France during the French Revolution. Margarot moved back to England and joined the recently formed London Corresponding Society. At an open-air meeting held at Chalk Farm on 24th October, the London Corresponding Society elected Margarot and Joseph Gerrald as its delegates to the Edinburgh Convention planned for November. Before they left London, Margarot and Gerrald heard the news that two of the leaders of the Scottish Reformers, Thomas Fyshe Palmer and Thomas Muir, had been arrested and charged with sedition. Margarot and Gerrald arrived in Scotland in November 1792. They attended several meetings before they were arrested on 2nd December 1793, with William Skirving, secretary of the Society of the Friends of the People. At his trial, sixteen people gave evidence that they had heard Maurice Margarot make seditious comments at the convention. Margarot made a four hour speech in defence of his actions. When he had finished, Lord Braxfield, the judge, commented that "I would not allow you to be interrupted. If I had been a stranger I would not have heard one third of what you said, which was sedition from beginning to end." Margarot was found guilty and sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. Attempts to stop the men being transported failed and on 2nd May 1794, The Surprise left Portsmouth and began its 13,000 mile journey to Botany Bay. While the ship was at sea, a group of convicts, including Joseph Fyshe Palmer and William Skirving, were accused of being involved in a plot to kill the captain and crew. Later, Palmer wrote a pamphlet accusing Margarot of exposing the plot to the captain. However, an investigation carried out by Francis Place, found that there was no evidence to support Palmer's accusations. Soon after arriving in New South Wales, Maurice Margarot was joined by his wife. As a political prisoner Margarot enjoyed more freedom than other convicts and was allowed to establish a small farm. Margarot objected to the way that military officers controlled trading in New South Wales. He became very unpopular with the military when he wrote a letters to Parliament complaining about this profiteering. In August 1804 Margarot was arrested and charged with being involved in a rebellion that had taken place at Castle Hill, a penal colony about 20 miles from Sydney. Margarot was deported to Van Diemen's Land. Margarot was given twenty-five lashes but according to Charles Throsby, the commandant of the colony, he continued to make political speeches urging rebellion. Maurice Margarot was finally released on 7th April 1810. By this time, the other five Scottish Martyrs, Joseph Fyshe Palmer, William Skirving, Joseph Gerrald, Thomas Muir and George Mealmaker, were all dead. After raising the £450 to pay the cost of transport, Margarot and his wife travelled back to England. Margarot continued to be involved in the struggle for parliamentary reform. Maurice Margarot died in a poor hospital in St Pancras, London on 11th November 1815.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$540.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, Printed for A. Straham and T. Cadell, and E. Balfour at Edinburgh, and sold by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies successors to Mr. Cadell, 1794 1 volume in-8 (22,5 x 14 cm) de VI-(1)-441-(21) pages. 2 grandes cartes géographiques dépliantes. Reliure de l'époque (vers 1800) veau raciné, dos lisses richement ornés, pièces de titre de maroquin rouge, pastille de maroquin noir mosaïquée avec fleurette dorée, tranches citron, roulette dorée sur les coupes. Reliure de très belle facture, probablement anglaise. Infimes frottements, sinon très fraîches reliures, intérieur également très frais imprimé sur beau papier, sans rousseurs notables. A noter une petite brûlure du cuir sur un mors (coulure acide) sans gravité. Texte en anglais. The Second edition La première édition de ce texte date de 1791 (même éditeur). 'In his sixty-eighth year the perusal of Major James Rennell's 'Memoir on the Map of Hindustan' (1793) set Robertson again to work, and within a year, encouraged by Gibbon, he brought out his 'Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Antients had of India .' The book concluded with a wise hope that the account 'of the early and high civilisation 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.' L'ouvrage est divisé en 4 sections plus un important appendice et des notes : Intercourse with India, from the earliest Times, until the Conquest of Egypt by the Romans. Intercourse with India, from the establishment of the Roman Dominion in Egypt, to the Conquest of that Kingdom by the Mahomedans. Intercourse with India, from the Conquest of Egypt by the Mahomedans, to the Discovery of the Passage by the Cape of Good Hope, and the Establishment of the Portugese Dominion in the East. General observations. Ces recherches historiques sur l'Inde ancienne sont estimées. Il s'agit du dernier ouvrage de l'auteur. On y trouve notamment un intéressant chapitre sur le commerce de la soie. La première traduction française date de 1792. Provenance : Ex libris gravé monogramme non identifié. Très bel exemplaire conservé dans sa première et très fine reliure en veau raciné
Seller: Librairie L'amour qui bouquine, ALISE SAINTE REINE, France
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1794 History of INDIA Asia MAPS Egypt Hindustan Robertson Scottish Enlightenment William Robertson was a notable 18th-century Scottish historian, and, according to Humphreys, made significant contributions to the writing of Scottish history and the history of Spain and Spanish America. While Robertson was most known for his histories of America and Great Britain, he also published an historical account of India. In this work, An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge of India, Robertson explored the commercial and cultural connections India had with the West through the end of the 15th-century. According to Stewart Brown, this work represents one of the more significant achievements of the late Scottish Enlightenment. This fine work features 2 enormous, folding maps of India. Item number: #5837 Price: $550 ROBERTSON, William An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India : and the progress of trade with that 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-And Religious Institutions, of the Indians. By William Robertson, D.D.F.R.S. Ed. Principal of the University, and Historiographer to his Majesty for Scotland. London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell ; And E. Balfour at Edinburgh : And sold by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), in the Strand, 1794. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages [vi], [2], 441, [23] Illustrated with 2 large folding maps References: Humphreys, William Robertson and his History of America; Brown, William Robertson, Early Orientalism; Language: English Binding: Leather; tight and secure Size: ~9in X 6in (22.5cm x 15cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 5837 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.