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LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1841 English

Ariana Antiqua is an important early scholarly treatment of ancient coins and other antiquities discovered in Afghanistan and adjacent regions of present-day Pakistan. Much of the work focuses on the …


LC: Library of Congress · 1841 English

Papers reprinted from the Transactions and Journal of the Asiatic societies of Bengal and London. Also available in digital form.



LC: Library of Congress · 1841 Persian

Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribes not identified. Written in India. Paper; coarse, cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication on …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1840 English

Sir Keith Alexander Jackson was a captain in the Fourth Light Dragoons in the British army, part of the Anglo-Indian force that set out for Afghanistan from British India in …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1840 French

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. From: Atlas de Geographie, 1840. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1840 English

Father Tadeusz Judas Krusiński (also seen as Tadeusz Jan Krusiński, 1675-1756) was a Polish Jesuit priest who spent nearly 20 years in Persia (Iran) at the court in the Safavid …


LC: Library of Congress · 1840 Arabic

Summary of Shīʻah doctrine and the Imamate.


LC: Library of Congress · 1840 French

French translation of v. 2 (1835) of the Oriental annual. Also available in digital form.