GUISE (Samuel) A Catalogue and Detailed Account of the Very Valuable and Curious Collection of Manuscripts, Collected in Hindostan, By Samuel Guise, Esq. Late Head Surgeon to the General Hospital at Surat: Including all those that were procured by Monsieur Anquetill du Perron, Relative to the Religion and History of the Parsis, and many which he could not procure. , Printed by John Nichols, 1800.

First edition, 4to, 15,[1]pp., purchase note in Sir Thomas' hand "Sotheby 66", orig. blue paper wrappers bound in, uncut, middle hill boards, spine chipped. A catalogue of 127 manuscripts rich in Arabic and Persian works, purchased by Guise between 1788 and 1795, at great personal expense, while he was Head Surgeon to the General Hospital. "His rarest manuscripts (according to his catalogue published in 1800) were purchased from the widow of Dastur Darab who between 1758 and 1760 had taught Avestan to Anquetil du Perron, the first translator of the Avesta into a European language."—British Library. ESTC locates copies at the British Library, National Library of Scotland, Gottingen (Germany) & New York Public Library. (Book ref. 28098)  £660.00

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