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A complete limited edition nine volume set of this profusely illustrated comprehensive historical account of India, from the sixth century to present time. Complete in nine volumes. A limited edition set, with these being No.671/1000 copies for England and America, the 'Edition de Luxe'. In the original half red morocco bindings. A set of works edited by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, an American specialist on Indo-European languages. Including: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B.C. By Romesh Chunder Dutt. With a coloured frontispiece, 17 monochrome plates, and in text illustrations. Volume II: From the Sixth Century B.C, to the Mohammedan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great. By Vincent A. Smith. With a coloured frontispiece, 18 monochrome plates, and in text illustrations. Volume III: Medieval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar thr Great. By Stanley Lane-Poole. With a coloured frontispiece, 16 monochrme plates, and in text illustrations. Volume IV: From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Moghul Empire. By Stanley Lane-Poole. With a coloured frontispiece, 20 monochrome plates, and in text illustrations. Volume V: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians. By Sir Henry Mers Elliot. With a coloured frontispiece, 22 moochrome plates, and in text illustrations. Volume VI: From the first Europea Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company. By Sir William Wilson Hunter. With a coloured frontispiece, 19 monochrome plates, and in text illustrations. Volume VII: The European Struggle for Indian Supremecy in the Seventeenth Century. By Sir William Wilson Hunter. With a coloured frontispiece, 21 monochrome plates, and in text illustrations. Volume VIII: From the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time. By Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall. With a coloured frontispiece, 24 monochrome plates, and in text illustrations. Volume IX: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Ovvidental. Collected and arraged by the editor. With a coloured frontispiece, 23 monochrome plates, and in text illustrations. All volumes collated, complete. In the original half morocco bindings. Externally, fading to spines, with bumping to the heads and tails. Fading to head of boards. Rubbing to joints, boards and extremities. Loss to head of spine of Vol II, with rear hinge starting. Crack to rear joint of Vol VI, with morocco lifting to the rear of the spine. Crack to head and tail of rear joint of Vol III, Crack to head of joints of Vol VIII. Marks to rear of Vol VII. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front and rear, and light tide mark to bottom edges. Occasional page uncut throughout the set. Good.
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