8vo. No copy of this edition has been located for collation.
This edition not in Lowndes, not in Grose, and not listed in the British Museum Catalogue.
Not in the Bradshaw Irish Collection in the Cambridge University Library.
Jones,
General Catalogue of Books that have been printed in Ireland from 1700-1791, page 76.
This Dublin edition in octavo, which, according to Jefferson, the early Library of Congress Catalogues, and the Jones catalogue
(where it is priced 6/6) is entitled
History of the War in India, as above, was evidently a pirate. The Catalogue of the
Bibliotheque Nationale has an entry for a Dublin edition in quarto for the same year, 1761,
385 pages, appendice de 64 p. et l’index. pl.
Richard Owen Cambridge, 1717-1802, English poet and historian, chiefly known for his poem
The Scribleriad
. His
Account of the War in India is his most important prose work.
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Parker’s Evidence of British transactions in the E. Indies.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 158, as above.
PARKER, ---.
of Lincoln’s Inn.
Evidence of our Transactions in the East Indies, with an enquiry into the general conduct of Great Britain to other Countries,
from the Peace of Paris, in 1763. By Mr. Parker, of Lincoln’s-Inn.
London: Printed for
Charles Dilly,
1782.
First Edition. 4to. 177 leaves,
An Enquiry into our National Conduct to Other Countries has separate pagination.
Not in Lowndes.
Catalogue of the Library of the East India Company, page 23.
No information as to the author is available. His first name is not given in the book, nor in any of the bibliographies and
catalogues consulted.
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164
Historia de la Yndia Oriental por Antonio de San Roman.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 157, as above.
SAN ROMAN [
de RIBANDENEYRA], Antonio.
Historia general de la Yndia Oriental los Descubrimientos, y Conquistas, que han hecho las Armas de Portugal, en el Brasil,
y en otras partes de Africa, y de la Asia; y de la Dilatacion del Santo Euangelio por aquellas grandes Prouincias, desde sus
principios hasta el Año de 1557. Compuesta por Fray Antonio de San Roman . . .
En
Valladolid: por
Luis Sanchez acosta de
Diego Perez, Año de
1603.
DS411.7 .S19
First Edition. Folio. 420 leaves; engraved title-page of architectural design with portrait at the head by Juan Baptista Morales, 2 plates in the text, text printed in double columns.
Sabin 76188.
Palau VI, 425.
Medina II, 488.
Rodriques 3132.
Salva 3396.
Alcocer y Martinez 443.
Listed on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
14.0.
Antonio San Roman [de Ribandeneyra], fl. 1603, Spanish historian, was a native of Palencia and a Benedictine. This work contains an account of the discoveries
of Columbus and of the Portuguese explorations and conquests in Brazil.
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