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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces relating to the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia. Dublin, P. Byrne, and W. Jones, 1793. 8vo. [16] + 643 + (1 blank)p. Contemporary calf, gilt title on spine label; worn. Early reports on the Far East including the first published account of Tibet by an Englishman, Captain Samuel Turner, who was sent there by Warren Hastings. It contains Turner's letters to John Macpherson, the Governor-General of Bengal relating to his interview with Teeshoo Lama at the Monastery of Terpaling, and an account of a journey to Tibet made by Poorungeer, a Gosseyn, and his reception by the Lama. (Turner's full narrative was not published until 1800.) The volume also includes studies of eastern arts, sciences and literature including chapters on the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India, the chronology of the Hindus, the Indian game of chess, the antiquity of the Indian Zodiac, the plants of India, an account of Nepal, and a discourse on the method of catching wild elephants at Tipura. Sir William Jones made his name with his Persian grammar, founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784), and edited its Journal of Asiatic Researches (PMM pp 141-142). ESTCN 8164. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good condition. First Edition. Iowa City:: Williams & Palmer, Printers, 1845. A square, tight copy. Moderate foxing. Light damp stain to upper corner of pages affecting a few page numbers but NO text. Light damp stain to bottom edge of the last 50 pages (in the margin only -- NO text is affected). A very early Iowa City imprint. Not in Sabin. Cited on p. 253 of Fitzpatrick's Bibliography of Iowa Territorial Documents. Iowa did not became a state until 1846. The last page is numbered 159, rather than 157 as in some copies. Also includes (with separate title page): "Laws of Iowa, Passed at the Session of the Legislative Assembly Which Commenced on the 5th Day of May, 1845. John Chambers, Governor; S. J. Burr, Secretary of the Territory; S. C. Hastings, President of the Council; J. M. Morgan, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Published by Authority." (same year and imprint). Bound in later tan cloth, with a gilt-lettered red leather spine label. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good condition. 8vo. 159pp. …