British East India Company servant and collector of oriental manuscripts

The history of Nadir Shah, formerly called Thamas Kuli Khan, the present Emperor of Persia / To which is prefix'd a short history of the Moghol Emperors. At the end is inserted, a catalogue of about two hundred manuscripts in the Persic and other oriental languages. Collected in the East. By James Fraser.

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