India.- Pondicherry imprint.- Beschi (Joseph) Grammatica Latino-Tamulica, Pondicherry, Typographio …

India.- Pondicherry imprint.- Beschi (Joseph) Grammatica Latino-Tamulica, worming throughout, some text and pagination affected, last few gatherings browned, modern half calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Pondicherry, Typographio Missionariorum Apostolicorum, 1843. ⁂ Beschi's Latin grammar of everyday 'low' Tamil in a later Pondicherry edition. The grammar was first published by German Lutheran missionaries at Tranquebar in 1738 and reprinted at Madras in 1813, after the 1806 publication of Horst's English translation. Pondicherry imprints are amongst the rarest of all early Indian imprints: few survive from the 18th century and early 19th-century imprints from the tiny French settlement are rare. Provenance: St. Joseph's College, Negapatam (cancelled stamp to title).