Important Notice

a)
WILLIAM JONES, The Works of Sir William Jones in Six Volumes, London: G G and J Robinson, 1799-1801

Volume I: Discourses, xv; 558 pages; frontispiece and plates
Volume II: Plants of India, Grammar of the Persian language, Poeseos Asiaticae, 656 pages and plates
Volume III: Charges to grand jury at Calcutta, Institutes of Hindu law, Mahomedan Law, 592 pages and plates
Volume IV: Speeches of Isaeus in law to property at Athens, 613 pages and plates
Volume V: L'histoire de Nader Chah, xxxviii; 610 pages
Volume VI: Hitopadesa of Vishnusarmen, 730 pages, table of contents
Featuring 59 engraved plates, and various illustrations throughout the text.
Original leather binding with black labels
30.5 x 20.5 x 5 cm (each)

b)
LORD TEIGNMOUTH, Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, London: John Hatchard, 1804

xv, [5], 531 pages; fine engraved black and white portrait frontispiece, errata slip in at p.1
Original leather binding with black labels
30.5 x 20.5 x 3.5 cm

Sir William Jones was an Anglo-Welsh scholar and judge, who co-founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. In his lifetime, he learned 28 languages, and his research on the similarities between Indian and European languages is renowned. It was in 1783, when not yet 37, that he came to India. But, in his typical fashion, he connected his pursuit of money with a pursuit of intellectual stimulation And it took him only a year-long glance at India's cultural riches, to constitute the Asiatic Society - the body that, among other things, reminded Indians of a figure we ourselves had forgotten: emperor Ashoka. (Manu S Pillai, William Jones: India's bridge to the West, Live Mint, 2017, online) The present lot comprises a set of six seminal volumes by Sir William Jones on diverse subjects - such as history, botany, language, and law - as well as the memoirs of Jones compiled by Lord Teignmouth, or John Shore, who was a former Governor-General of Bengal.