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LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1792 English

Relief shown pictorially. Marches shown in color. Map otherwise uncolored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy sectioned into 16 and mounted …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1791 English

Includes index. Translated from Arabic.


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1791 Arabic

This unsigned watercolor by an unknown Indian artist depicts the events of the Third Mysore War (1790-92). The Anglo-Mysore wars were a series of conflicts in the late 18th century …


LC: Library of Congress · 1790 Persian

Treatise on medicine and medicinal plants.


LC: Library of Congress · 1790 Persian

Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badiʼʻ al-Jamāl, also recorded in an Arabic version in the Arabian Nights.


LC: Library of Congress · 1788 Persian

Manuscript. Persian Caption title. Name of scribe not indicated; perhaps written by Captain William Franklin. Written in India. Paper; think, polished, cream-color laid paper; no visible chain lines or watermarks; …


LC: Library of Congress · 1785 Persian

Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color laid paper of varying thickness, with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; black ink with …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1775 Arabic

This Arabic manuscript, dated 1775, is a collection of the sayings of Muhammad by the scholar as-Sagani (died 1252), who was born in India and served as a diplomatic representative …



LC: Library of Congress · 1772 English

This two-volume work is the third edition of a book first published as a single volume in 1757, expanded to two volumes in 1766, and republished in 1772. The author, …