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. With an Appendix, Containing, Observations on ... the Indians. By William Robertson, ...A. Strahan, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies; and E. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1799 - 441 pages |
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