[Printed volume.] A Vocabulary, Persian, Arabic, and English; Containing such Words as have been adopted from the two former of those Languages, and incorporated into the Hindvi: [...] Being the Seventh Part of the New Hindvi Grammar and Dictionary.

Author: 
William Kirkpatrick (1754-1812), 'Captain in the Service of the Honourable the East-India Company, and Persian Secretary to the Commander in Chief in India' [William Thornton; Henry Harcourt]
Publication details: 
London: Printed by Joseph Cooper, Drury-Lane, 1785.
£420.00
SKU: 12202

The full title reads: 'A Vocabulary, Persian, Arabic, and English; Containing such Words as have been adopted from the two former of those Languages, and incorporated into the Hindvi: Together with some hundreds of compound verbs formed from Persian or Arabic nouns, and in universal use: Being the Seventh Part of the New Hindvi Grammar and Dictionary. By William Kirkpatrick, Captain in the Service of the Honourable the East-India Company, and Persian Secretary to the Commander in Chief in India.' The last four pages carry the drop-head title: 'An Account of the Plan and Contents of the New Hindvi Grammar and Dictionary. Proposed to be published by William Kirkpatrick, Captain in the Service of the Honourable the East-India Company, and Persian Secretary to the Commander in Chief in India.' [iv] + viii + 196 + [4]pp., 4to. No half-title. On aged, stained and lightly-wormed paper, in heavily-worn remains of contemporary half-binding. Manuscript annotations at the beginning of the volume, giving a different transliteration (by Thornton?) of the Hindi script into roman characters. Library stamp and shelf-mark on front free endpaper, on the reverse of which are two manuscript notes, the second beging a translation into Spanish of the first, which reads: 'Ce livre appartient a Guillaume Thornton le don de Mr. Henry Harcourt Passager sur le Vaisseau le Charlton, | Mois de Mai 1806 en mer'. ('Guillaume Thornton' is possibly Sir William Thornton (c.1779-1840), who in April 1806 returned to England from Messina with General Sir James Henry Craig.) Study notes in two different hands on two pieces of paper loosely inserted (3pp., 4to, and 1p., 12mo).