YATES, WILLIAM:

A Grammar of the Sunscrit Language, on a New Plan. Calcutta, Printed and sold by the Baptist Mission Press, 1820.

. Pp. viii, v-xxviii, 426. Missing last leaf; page 427 and the errata. Small wormholes running through the text. Expertly rebound in half calf (by Bernard Middleton). With inscription by the author. First edition. William Yates (1792-1845), British baptist missionary and renowned linguist who first came to India in 1815 where he worked together with William Carey at Serampore. In 1817 he moved with the Baptist Missionary Society to Calcutta where he established a school and was involved in building chapels and other religious establishments in Calcutta and its vicinity. Yates composed many linguistic works and manuals of Sanskrit and Hindustani as well as handbooks of natural science and history for Indians. He also translated the Bible into Bengalee. Vater p. 333.

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