Item #45489 A dictionary, Hindustani and English. Rev. W. Yates.
A dictionary, Hindustani and English
A dictionary, Hindustani and English

A dictionary, Hindustani and English

Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press ... sold by Messrs. W. Thacker and Co. [et al.], 1847. 8vo, pp. iv, [2], 589, [1], 19 (addenda); lexicon in double column; text in Roman and Arabic character throughout; contemporary quarter sheep over marbled paper-covered boards, extremities rubbed and worn, label lettered in gilt a bit rubbed; good and sound. Yates (1792-1845) is well known for his Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary, and his Hindustani grammar (see DNB). In 1831, oddly, he received a master's degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I. Not in Vancil; not in Zaünmuller; not in the Trübner Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars; not in the Astor Catalogue of Books relating to the Languages and Literature of Asia, Africa and the Oceanic Islands; not in Collison, Dictionaries of English and Foreign Languages; only the Yale copy is cited in NUC. OCLC, on the other hand, turns up 14, only 5 of which (Indiana, Yale, Georgetown, San Francisco Public Library, and Dartmouth) in the U.S. Item #45489

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