CATROU, FRANCOIS
HISTOIRE GENERALE DE L'EMPIRE DU MOGOL DEPUIS SA FONDATION SUR LES MEMOIRES PORTUGAIS DE M. MANOUCHI, VENITIEN.
GENERAL HISTORY OF THE MOGOL EMPIRE SINCE ITS FOUNDATION ON THE PORTUGUESE MEMOIRS OF M. MANOUCHI, VENETIANYear: 1708
Size: 16.7 x 10.8 cm (6.5 x 4.2 inches)
Published by La Haye: Chez Guillaume De Voys., 12mo., (24), PP 380.
With Engraved title-vignette and large Folding Engraved Map.
'Niccolao Manucci's book, from which Catrou drew much of his material, was not printed until 1707, when it was translated by William Irvine (the Indian Text Society), of the Bengal Civil Service, for the reason that it had disappeared from view until it turned up in Berlin a few years ago. Its title was Storia do Mogor and it was written partly in Italian, partly in French, and partly in Portuguese. Historians have long bewailed its disappearance, for hitherto they have been unable to check the statements of Catrou. Manucci practically spent his life in India and witnessed so many things and recorded them so fully and delightfully that he is almost second to none as an historian of Aurangzib's reign' (Cox I, p.285). Armorial bookplate of Duncan Frazer of Auchnagarn Esq.
BINDING: Contemporary full calf leather binding, title in gilt on spine, gilt decoration on spine.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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