Asiatick researches: or, Transactions of the Society, instituted in Bengal, : for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia.
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Continuing resourceReference number:u299002Calcutta [India]: : Printed and sold by Manuel Cantopher, at the Honourable the Company's printing-office; and sold at London by P. Elmsly, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788, i.e. 1789]-1839Description: volumes, plates : tables ; 33 cm (4°)Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeOther title: Asiatick researches | Asiatic researches | Transactions of the Society instituted at BengalSubject(s): Archaeology -- India -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800 | Indians -- Languages -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800 | Oriental literature -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800 | India -- Literature -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800 | India -- Literature -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800 | India -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800 | India -- History -- 18th century -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800 | Asia -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
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Anthropology Library General Shelves | H6/KWL [ASIATIC-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 299002-1001 |
Imprint date of 1788 is contradicted by the announcement of publication in the Calcutta gazette: 15 Jan. 1789 (cf. Shaw).
Vols. 15-20 have title: Asiatic researches ...
Imprint varies; printer's name in v. 3: T. Watley; v. 4-5 printed at the Honourable Company's Press; v. 6 adds: printed ..., by Thomas Watley; v.11 "Printed by A.H. Hubbard, at the Hindoostanee Press"; v.12 "Printed at the Calcutta Gazette Office"; v.18-20 "Printed at the Bengal Military Orphan Press, by G.H. Huttman".
Includes texts with some printing in naskh⁻i, nastaʻl⁻iq, Bengali, and Devanagari characters.
Most engravers unidentified, but plates include work by: John Alefounder, Samuel Davis, Robert Mahon, and Aaron Upjohn.
Includes list of society members, annual speeches of Sir William Jones, President of the Society from 1784-1794, and notes on Society activities, with papers on language, history, archaeology, religion and society of India; languages include English, Persian, Urdu, Bengali and Sanskrit. With meteorological tables and calculations of latitude.
An "Index to the first eighteen volumes of the Asiatic researches, or the Transactions of the Society, ..." was published in 1835 with the imprint: Calcutta: Printed at the Bengal Military Orphan Press, by G.H. Huttmann.
Intended to be published annually, printing difficulties made publishing irregular and usually biennial.
Imprint dates not related to actual date of publication; only 6 vols. appeared before 1801: v.1 in 1789, v.2 in 1791; v.3 in 1793, v.4 in 1795, v.5 in 1798, v.6 in 1800.
English.
Partially reprinted at London in both pirated and authorized editions.
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