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Timeless Tales Rare Books

Timeless Tales Rare Books, a woman (veteran) owned, private bookseller, was born out of our shared interests and love of browsing through scarce, antiquarian books and cherishing the intoxicating smell of bygone days preserved in the pages of timeless prints.
Our early collections of first and signed editions, biographies and memoirs soon expanded to include historical, religious, literature classics, travels, scientific, art and illustrated books.

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The Bhagvat-Geeta Or Dialogues Of Kreeshna And Arjoon London: 1785. First Edition.

The editio princeps and extremely scarce and monumental first edition of the first Sanskrit book translated into English. This English translation of the Bhagavad Gita is the greatest accomplishment of notable Orientalist Wilkins, founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Published by the East India Company in 1785 under the patronage of Governor General Warren Hastings, this translation had a profound impact on some of the greatest Western intellectuals of the time, including Carlyle and Emerson. The Geeta was later translated into French, German, and Russian.

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