A dictionary in Sanskrit and English, designed for the use of private students and of Indian colleges and schools

Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1846. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. iv, 928; text in double column; contemporary half calf, quite rubbed, but sound and the contents clean. Based on the earlier dictionary by Horace Hayman Wilson (Calcutta,1819 and 1832 - the only previously published English-Sanskrit dictionary) and published posthumously with the assitance of J. Wenger. In 1831 Yates received, oddly, a master's degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I. Not in the Astor Catalogue of Books on the Languages and Literature of Asia, Africa and the Oceanic Islands; Trubner Catalogue, p. 137; Vancil, p. 282; Zaunmuller, col. 338. (Inventory #: 45500)