Auction 356 Old & Rare Books - General History & Topography
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INDIA -- (LAET, J. de). De imperio Magni Mogolis sive India vera commentarius. Ex variis auctoribus congestus. Leiden, Elzevier, 1631. (12), 299, (17) pp. W. engr. ti. & woodcut on p. 100 of the annil or glastum plant. 24°. Cont. vellum. (Faintly stained/browned).

With dedication by De Laet to Daniel Heinsius, followed by an unsigned 'Praefatio ad lectorem' in which the work is described by the author as the first single descriptive monograph on the whole Indian empire to be published. - Willems 354 (note); Rahir, 333; Tiele 634; Cox I, 317; Cat. NHSM I, 219.

€ 150

result € 140

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