File RAS JOUR/16/1 - Description of the Celestial Globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm

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GB 891 RAS JOUR-RAS JOUR/16-RAS JOUR/16/1

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Description of the Celestial Globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm

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  • 2001 (Creation)
  • 1830 (Creation)

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Bernhard Dorn's, 'Description of the Celestial Globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., K.L.S. &c., &c., deposited in the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'. This is an offprint of the article published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society 1830, Volume II. The offprint contains two sketches on its inner front cover. With it is also a sheet of paper with Arabic script in ink and English annotations in pencil. There is also a letter from David [ ], Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to send the offprint and ask if the whereabouts of the globe is known, dated 1 November 2001.

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  • Arabic

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