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A collection of proverbs, and proverbial phrases : in the Persian and Hindoostanee languages / compiled and translated, chiefly, by Thomas Roebuck.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PN6519.H58 R64 1824
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roebuck, Thomas, 1781-1819.
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Proverbs, Hindustani.
- Proverbs, Persian.
- Penn Provenance:
- Macadam, J. H. (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 406, 396 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Calcutta : Printed at the Hindoostanee Press, 1824.
- Contents:
- Part I. Persian
- Part II. Hindoostanee.
- Notes:
- Edited by H.H. Wilson. Cf. Introduction.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy has some ms. marks in pencil, ink or blue pencil in text.
- RBC copy has partially illegible dated 19th-century autograph ("[...]. Bever[...]e 1892.") on blank leaf following front free endpaper; autograph ("J.H. Macadam") in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- RBC copy: portions of title leaf torn off and mended with blank leaves; ink blots on title leaf.
- OCLC:
- 187482067
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