Experiencing India: European Descriptions and Impressions, 1498-1898. Exhibition Catalog, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 1998 by Oxtoby, Willard Gurdon - 1998

Toronto: University of Toronto Library, 1998. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Fine. 8vo. vii, 104 pp., illus. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 19 January- 21 March, 1998.

Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1998 Book. New Book from Publisher. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition.. An Exhibition Held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 19 January -21 March, 1998 The variety of European encounters with the Indian subcontinent, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, was the theme of this exhibition. Two things developed in the fifteenth century that frame the start of the historical period. One was printing from movable type, introduced in Europe by Johann Gutenberg in the 1450s. The other was navigation, permitting the Portuguese Bartolomeu Diaz to sail into the Indian Ocean, around the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, and another Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama, to reach the shores of India in 1498, exactly five hundred years ago. The ensuing record of discovery and travel, as it unfolded, was published in early European printed books that have come to be highly prized by collectors and libraries. The… Read More

Governing Council, University of Toronto, 1998. pbk 103pp illus very faint shelfwear to covers author as donorÕs inscription on half-title page an excellent clean tight unmarked copy