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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Reprint, 1975. Very Good books in Good+ dust jackets. 3 volumes, 8vo., 471, 496, 464 pp., bound in publishers tan cloth with illustrated brown dust jackets. Jackets are rubbed and chipped at edges, tips and spine - volume 3 has closed tear on front cover. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is solid. Dust jackets now protected in mylar sleeves. Charles Masson (1800-1853) was the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier, independent explorer and pioneering archaeologist and numismatist. He was the first European to discover the ruins of Harappa near Sahiwal in Punjab, now in Pakistan. He found the ancient city of Alexandria in the Caucasus (modern Begram) dating to Alexander the Great. He unlocked the now-extinct script known as Kharoshthi. Masson was the first European to see the ruins of Harappa, described and illustrated in his book Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan,… Read More