Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies, Translated from the Author's Later French Ms. and Edited with Notes, Corrections, and Biography, with a Prefatory Note by the Right Hon. F. Max Muller and a Portrait
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1928. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2331318
1928 printing of third edition, including Beauchamp's preface and the author's introduction to the early revised edition. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
xxxiv, 741, [3] pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles. A study of Hindu religious customs, which also provides valuable information on the Indian caste system and other important aspects of daily life in the late 18th and early 19th century (the work was first written in 1815, and first published in book form in 1897).
Price: $25.00