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The works of Sir William Jones / with the life of the author by Lord Teignmouth.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PJ64.J6 A2 1807 v.1-13
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, William, 1746-1794.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jones, William, 1746-1794.
- Jones, William.
- Linguistics.
- Oriental philology.
- Middle East specialists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Middle East specialists.
- Asianists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Asianists.
- Philologists.
- Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Philologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 13 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807.
- Language Note:
- Chiefly English with Arabic, French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Persian.
- Contents:
- v. 1-2. Memoirs of the life, writings, and correspondence of Sir William Jones.
- v. 3-4. [Discourses] Tales, and fables, by Nizami.
- v. 5. A grammar of the Persian language.
- v. 6. Poeseos asiaticae commentariorum libri sex.
- v. 7. Charges. Institutes of Hindu law.
- v. 8. Institutes of Hindu law. An essay on the law of bailments.
- v. 9. Speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property in Athens.
- v. 10. The moallakat. Poems, consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatick languages.
- v. 11. L'historie de Nader Chah.
- v. 12. L'historie do Nader Chah. Traite sur la poesie orientale. Introduction to the history of the life of Nader Shah.
- v. 13. Hitopadesa of Vishnu-sarman. Two hymns to Pracriti. Extracts from the Vedas.
- Notes:
- Apparently edited by Lady Jones.
- Includes bibliogrphical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center PJ64.J6 A2 1807 acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund. Autograph of R. Cane, Jun. dated 1841.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794. Works of Sir William Jones.
- OCLC:
- 2293749
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