[Rarebooks] FS: A VOCABULARY, BENGALEE AND ENGLISH 1810

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Mohana Prasada Thakura. A VOCABULARY, BENGALEE 
AND ENGLISH FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS BY 
MOHUNPERSAUD TAKOOR. Calcutta: Printed by Thomas 
Hubbard, at the Hindoostanee Press, 1810. [8], 
200 pp. 8vo. Contemporary tree sheep (hardback). 
First edition. In three columns: (1) Bengali word 
in Bengali script; (2) romanized version; (3) 
English translation. Mohana Prasada Thakura was 
assistant librarian at the College of Fort 
William in Calcutta and author of one other work 
(an Ooriya English vocabulary in 1811). "Under 
the heading of Materia Medica, is assembled a 
singular assortment of terms in botany, 
mineralogy, horticulture, &c. Still, however, to 
those who are partial to his plan of acquiring 
the words of a new language, Mohan Prasad's 
vocabulary may be of considerable use. The 
compiler deserves credit for his diligence..." 
(Notices of Bengali Dictionaries in Calcutta 
Christian Observer, Vol. 7, May 1838, p. 284-292, 
referring to the 2nd. ed). "Très-rare" even in 
1872 according to a Maisonneuve catalogue 
referring to the later 1815 edition). Provenance: 
James Commer, Calcutta, gift received in 1811. 
OCLC shows only five copies under three accession 
numbers. Worn, lettering piece off, occasional 
soiling, marginal dampstaining at beginning and 
end, old institutional bookplate and stamps, free 
endpapers lacking, signatures and stamps on title 
page and dedication page.  [35877] $750.00

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