Description historique et géographique de l'Indostan (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Description historique et géographique de l'Indostan (v.1)
Other titles: Memoir of a map of Hindoostan; or the Mogul empire
Classmark: Anglo-French 5 1800/REN
Creator(s): Rennell, James (1742-1830)
Additional creator(s): Turner, Samuel (1749-1802) (Other); Boucheseiche, Jean-Baptiste (1760-1825) (Other); Castéra, Jean Henri (1749-1838) (Other)
Related people: Turner, Samuel; Boucheseiche, Jean-Baptiste; Castéra, Jean Henri
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie de Poignée
Publication city: A Paris
Date(s): an VIII (1800)
Language: French
Size and medium: 3 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/261168
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016769239705181
Description
Includes (v.3, pp.329-359) "Relation d'une entrevue avec la jeune Lama" (pp.329-340) and "Voyage au Thibet, fait par le Gosseyn Pourunger" (pp.341-359) by Samuel Turner.
The maps indicated in the title were issued in a larger format with title: Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan ([1800]). Cf. BN.
"Se vend chez Buisson, imprimeur-libraire..., Bossange, Masson et Besson, libraire ..., Treuttel et Würtz, libraires, quai Voltaire, no. 2, et à Strasbourg ...": verso of half-titles.
Castéra's translation of "Ces mélanges... tirés des Recherches asiatiques, que publie depuis quelques années la savante Société du Bengale." -- v. 3, p. [3] following p. 234.
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