Author: Robertson, William.
Title: An Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope.
Description: London: printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand; and E. Balfour at Edinburgh, 1791. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. xiii, 364, [12]pp. []1, a4, B4Z4, Aa4-Zz4, 3A4-3B4. With the half-title present. First edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With two folding engraved maps by S. Neele, the first after Ptolemy and the second map executed in 1791 and published by Cadell. Additional illustrations. Kress B2182; Graesse VI, 138; Cox I, p. 304; Lowndes 2107; Goldsmiths' 14602; ESTC T78952. Good.

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