HINDU PRIMER: Hindui’ Primer बालकों के लिये । प्रथम शिक्षा पुस्तक |

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HINDU PRIMER: Hindui’ Primer बालकों के लिये । प्रथम शिक्षा पुस्तक |

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8°, 12 pp., original yellow wrapper with lettering, book-seller’s stamp “Maisonneuve, Paris” on the inner side of the front wrapper (slightly age-toned and stained, old annotations in ink on the first text page, cover and title page with a tiny hole, small folds in corners, a smalll paper stamp in the lower part of the cover, spine partly cracked) (#70477).

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[Hinduí primer. Bālakoṃke liye : prathama śikshā pustaka / Hindi Primer. For Children. First Educational Book].

Calcutta: School-Book Society’s Press 1839.

 

A rare early Hindu primer was printed by the Calcutta School-Book Society, which was founded in 1817, with the goal of publishing text books and supplying them to schools and madrasas in India. According to the imprint on the title page verso this is the fourth edition.

We could only find two further institutional examples of this edition, held by
University of Oxford and University of Wisconsin – Madison and no examples of other editions.

Clicke here to see the scan of the book online: Hinduí primer – Google Books

The bookseller’s stamp on the inner side of the rappers belongs to Maisonneuve, an esteemed bookstore in Paris, founded in 1835 and specialized in oriental books. The primer is mentioned in Maisonneuve’s 1872 catalogue Catalogue de livres de linguistique … anciens et modernes en vente aux prix marqués, p. 200, nr. 2600 (click here ot see the catalogue on-line: Catalogue de livres de linguistique … anciens et modernes en vente aux pr… – Google Books).

References : OCLC 53199457.

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