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LC: Library of Congress · 1772 Persian

Manuscript. Persian Title from container. Written by Salmān Bint ʻAlī Pāshā. Written in India or Turkey. Paper; heavy, reinforced laid paper with vertical chain lines and no visible watermarks; sections …


LC: Library of Congress · 1772 Persian

On Sufism, probably written in Afghanistan between 1772-1793 during the reign of Tīmūr Shāh Durrānī, 1742 or 1743-1793.


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1768 English

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: London and Ferro. Appears in multipe editions, from 1773 onward, of Kitchin's A general atlas, describing the whole universe. Available also through the Library of …


LC: Library of Congress · 1768 Persian

Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Written by Muḥammad Tahsīn. Fol. 1a has name of former owner David Anderson. Written in India. Paper; thin, cream color laid paper with horizontal …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1761 Arabic

The title of Mahmud ibn ʻUmar al-Jaghmini's medical text, the Qānūncha, (or Qānūnja in Arabic), is a reference to Avicenna's seminal work on medicine, al-Qānūn (The canon). The suffix -cha …


LC: Library of Congress · 1 January 1760 Arabic

Sadr al-Din Ali al-Gilani al-Hindi (died April 10, 1609) was a renowned physician of the 16th century. His uncle was a physician and may have served as Sadr al-Din's first …


LC: Library of Congress · 1760 English

This work by William Watts (active 1737-58) is an account of the Battle of Plassey, which took place on June 23, 1757, near the village of Pâlāshir, some 150 kilometers …


LC: Library of Congress · 1760 Persian

Manuscript is incomplete; text breaks off abruptly at second word of line 5, leaf 257a. Tārīkh-i Nādirī (The history of Nadir) is a historical work that chronicles the political and …


LC: Library of Congress · 1759 Persian

Book of historical and other anecdotes, beginning with anecdotes about nature.


LC: Library of Congress · 1757 Modern Greek

In Greek and Latin in parallel columns. Greek half title romanized. Signatures: *⁸ 2*⁸ 3*⁸ A-2R⁸ 2S-3Q⁴ 3R⁸ 3S⁴. T.p. printed in red and black. Sowerby, E. M. Catalogue of …