Le Bhaguat-Geeta ou Dialogues de Kreeshna et d‘Arjoon
Charles Wilkins, Le Bhaguat-Geeta ou Dialogues de Kreeshna et d'Arjoon; contenant un précis de la religion & de la morale des Indiens. Traduit du Samfcrit, la langue sacrée des Brahmes, en Anglois, par M. Charles Wilkins; et de l’Anglois en François, par M. Parraud, de l’Académie des Arcades de Rome , Paris: Chez Benoît Morin, Libraire, rue de la Harpe, 1787 [4], clxii, 180 pp. Title page with decorative rule border, preface by the French translator, followed by Wilkins’ original introduction and his full English translation rendered in French prose; contemporary full mottled calf, the spine gilt in compartments with floral and foliate tools, contrasting red morocco label gilt, marbled endpapers with a heraldic bookplate to front pastedown, all edges red. The binding represents an elegant late 18th-century French style, reflecting the period’s preference for decorative gilt tooling and vibrant marbled endpapers. 20 x 13 cm
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The Heetopades of Veeshnoo-Sarma in a series of connected fables interspersed with moral, prudential and political maxims; translated from an ancient manuscript in the Sanskreet language wth explanatory notes
Charles Wilkins, The Heetopades of Veeshnoo-Sarma in a series of connected fables interspersed with moral, prudential, and political maxims; translated from an ancient manuscript in the Sanskreet language with explanatory notes , Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell and sold by C. Nourse in the Strand, London and J. Marshall, Milsom Street, Bath, 1787 xx, 334 pages; contemporary tree calf boards, panelled in gilt, expertly rebacked, preserving the original spine with elaborate gilt tooling and a contrasting red morocco label titled Wilkins’s Heetopades. 21.5 x 13.5 cm PROVENANCE: From Robert and Maria Travis's collection.
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