FABLES AND PROVERBS From the Sanskrit Being the HITOPADESA.
by WILKINS, Charles. Hitopadesa
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London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 277 pages + ads, drab cloth, paper label on spine, front free endpaper repaired, fore-edge lightened. Ex libris E. T. Lee.
Introduction by Henry Morley. Issued as vol. 30 in Morley's Universal Library. "The purpose of its interwoven fables and maxims was to present a system of good counsel for right training of a prince in all the chief affairs of life." Wilkins had made the first translation into English of the Bhagavad Gita.
Introduction by Henry Morley. Issued as vol. 30 in Morley's Universal Library. "The purpose of its interwoven fables and maxims was to present a system of good counsel for right training of a prince in all the chief affairs of life." Wilkins had made the first translation into English of the Bhagavad Gita.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0008180
- Title
- FABLES AND PROVERBS From the Sanskrit Being the HITOPADESA.
- Author
- WILKINS, Charles. Hitopadesa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- FABLES, HITOPADESA, INDIAN LITERATURE, PROVERBS, sanskrit, ethics, government, etiquette,
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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