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COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN, DENIS LOUIS D.1830. An Historical Sketch of Goa, the Metropolis of the Portuguese Settlements in India. Madras: William Twigg, at the Gazette Press, 1831. 8vo (198 x 127 mm). Engraved folding plan of the city of Goa. Modern morocco gilt. Some foxing, worming to upper corner. Provenance: Raj Krishna. FIRST EDITION OF ABBE COTTINEAU'S SCARCE ACCOUNT OF PORTUGUESE GOA. Published the year after his death, his account contains important descriptions of the history and buildings of Goa, written just a few years before the expulsion of the religious orders in 1835. An essential primary source for Fonseca's An Historical and Archaeological Sketch of the City of Goa and an early comprehensive history printed in Madras. Described by Quaritch as rare as early as 1868. Graesse II, p 286; Brunet I, p 789. WITH: TORRENS, HENRY D'OYLEY. 1833-1839. Travels in Ladak, Tartary, and Kashmir. London: Saunders, Otley & Co., 1862. 8vo. Folding map, 12 chromolithographic plates (2 folding). 19th century half calf gilt. Foxing. WITH: TOD, JAMES. 1782-1835. Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India. Calcutta: S.K. Lahiri, 1894. 2 volumes. 8vo. Modern half cloth. Tears to several pages, some with repairs, folding table separated at fold lines. WITH: SEN, RAM COMUL. A Dictionary of English and Bengalee. Serampur: The Serampore Press, 1834. 2 volumes. 8vo. Modern half morocco. Library markings, some pages repaired.