Viaggio alle Indie Orientali

Umiliato alla santita di N.S. Papa Pio Sesto Pontefice Massimo da Fra Paolino da S. Bartolomeo Carmelitano Scalzo. Roma, Antonio Fulgoni, 1796. 4to, halfleather, title on spine with gilt stamping, title page with illustrated vignette with portrait of Pope Pius VI, XX,404 pp., red edges; portrait of Paulinus A.S. Bartholomeo, various small woodcuts of "Indian hieroglyphs" in the text with different typography with insertions in Greek, Arabic, Syriac and Devanagari + more extensive text in Malay and a Malabar song with music notation. Complete with 12 full-page engravings.

The work describes his missionary travels but particularly his view on religious customs, language and writing in the Sanskrit tradition and the spread of muslim influence in the north of India. Paulinus of St. Bartholomew, born Filip Vezdin, was a Croatian Carmelite missionary and philologist. Standard work for Indian linguistics. Spine and back board with damage, stamp to title page; else good. First printing.