Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India and of Their Institutions, Religious and Civil.
London. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1817. Stock ID #223216 Detailed account of the social, cultural, and religious practices of India during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Abbé Dubois, a French Catholic priest and missionary, was stationed in India from 1792-1823 and his manuscript was purchased by the East India Company in 1807, publishing this English translation in 1817. When referring to this item please quote stockid 223216.
xxvii + 565pp + [2] publisher's advertisments; contemporary diced morocco, the boards with an elaborate double-border blind-stamped and gilt-embossed (rubbed at the edges), re-backed mounting the original gilt-decorated and lettered backstrip, 27 x 22 cms, marbled fore edges, marbled endpapers, the title page rather spotted and stained, scant foxing elsewhere, with the armorial bookplate of J. E. Saunders Finsbury Square, and the neat pencilled inscription of a later owner to the initial blank, a good copy.
Price: $550.00 AU