Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Bound volume containing two early issues (January, 1849 and January, 1850)
Bombay: 1849, 1850. Hardcover. First issue: caption title, 9 plates (3 folding), errata slip, 191p. Second issue: caption title, folding map (Sketch Map showing the Position of the Mud Craters of Hinglaj), 4 plates, 148p. Original wrappers were not preserved when this volume was originally bound. Now in an attractive recent quarterbinding. 22cm. Portion of original front pastedown preserved and mounted containing the following: "Presented by Lieut. Col. St. John Bombay Army Oct 1851." The Jan. 1849 issue contains "Notes and Remarks on Dr. Dorn's Chrestomathy of the Pushtu or Affghan Languages" (pp. 58-69) and "A Grammar of the Jataki or Belohcki Dialect" (pp. 84-125). These two articles were Burton's first appearance in print. Almost all of the corrections noted on the errata slip relate to Burton's two articles. The longest article in the January 1850 issue is "Memoir on the Cave-Temples and Monasteries, and Other Ancient Buddhist , Brahmanical, and Jaina Remains of Western India," by John Wilson (pp. 36-107). Near Fine. Item #85377
Price: $1,500.00