An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India

William Robertson, 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, London: A Strahan and T Caddell, 1791

xii, 364 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 2 large folding maps of India; bound in full calf, marbled edges
11.5 x 9 in (28.7 x 22.5 cm)

This is the last historical work of famous Scottish historian William Robertson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and dean of the University of Edinburgh.

Robertson produced the above work late in life after having read Major Rennell's Memoir on the Map of Hindostan. His final paragraphs concentrate on the fate of India, its people and culture, hoping that "the early and high civilisation of India, and of the wonderful progress of its inhabitant in elegant arts and useful science, may have some influence upon the behaviour of Europeans towards that people".
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