Oldest printed Sanskrit books

[उज्ज्वल राजपूत]

Can someone please help me in finding the oldest printed Sanskrit books on the Internet.

Wikipedia entry on Hitopadesha says it was the first book printed in Nagari script but I am yet unable to find the book. Please help.

Also, I remember seeing a fairly old Goolge book which mentioned in its forward, in Sanskrit, something like "this books applies a new approach in printing Sanskrit by giving spaces between पद's that don't have सन्धि between them".

I want to see the early historical revolutions in printing and writing Sanskrit.

Also, if somebody can manage, please give a link to a digital image of a manuscript in Nagari that explicitly uses symbols for anunasikas and doesn't use anuswar symbol. (where गच्छन्ति is not written गच्छंति.)

[Nagaraj Paturi]

This site gives the following timeline :

1579	Printing at Cochin
1712	The Tranquebor press
1751	Tranquebor printing & Publishing House, Madras
1761	Vepery SPCK Press
1795	Serampore Missionaries
1809	Punjabi Press, Ludhiana
1817	American Mission Press, Bombay
1820	Native School and School Book Committee, Bombay
1820	Bihar Lithography, Patna
1822	Printing of ‘Pamcopa Khyana’ in Marathi at Courier Press, Bombay
1825-26	Printing in Gujarathi, Hindustani and Parsi
1829	Fr. Benjamin Bailey’s first printing press at Kottayam
1830	Captain George Jervis Lithographic Press at Poona
1830	Greenway family press at Kanpur ( Lithographic Hindi Work)
1830	Lithography Press, Madras Presidency
1831	Fort. St. George Press and College, Madras
1799-1833	Sarafoji Maharaja Press in Tanjore
1838	Gurumukhi Grammer printed at Punjabi Press
1841	Bahu Mahajan Litho Press to print “Prabhakar” a Marathi weekly
1843	‘Upadesha Chandrika” monthly, edited by Pandit Movabhat Dandekar, printed at  Mahajan press
1844-48	The Delhi Oordoo Ukbar, Delhi1844-48
1849	Benaras Ukbar Press, Benaras- Benaras Ukbar printed in Nagari script
1850	“Dhumaketu” Weekly at Mahajan Press
1851	English-Punjabi Dictionary printed at Punjabi Press
1861	Times of India press, Bombay
1866	First Oriya weekly at Cuttack Printing Company
1872	Karnataka State Presses
1877	Sivakasi as Commercial Center of Calendar Art
1890	Raja Ravi Varma established a big litho press at Malodi, near Lonovala
1907	Usmani Press, Madras (Urdu)
1919	Shahi Press, Madras (Urdu)
1924	First Printing Certificate Course, Madras
1925	Lutheran Printing Press, Vaniyambadi
1929	Majeedia Press, Madras (Urdu)
1938	First Diploma Course Printing at Madras
1983	First Degree Course in Printing at Madras

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Nagaraj Paturi

 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

 

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

 

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )

 

 

 

[Nagaraj Paturi]

In 1803 Carey decided to publish a Sanskrit Grammar in Dev Nagree type which required 700 separate punches. Carey therefore employed Punchanon and then an assistant Monohar. The two later established a type foundry in Serampore. Monohar created beautiful scripts of Bengali, Nagree, Persian and Arabic. Types were designed and cut for all the languages in which books were published. In fact, movable metal types for Chinese were also developed which were more economical than the traditional wooden block types.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serampore_Mission_Press