Lectures on India: Also, Descriptions of Remarkable Customs and Personagesin other Pagan and Mohammedan Countries

Boston, MA: Caleb Wright, 1849. Hardcover. G. Tearing to the cloth along both hinges with a little bit of chipping and general wear/fraying at edges/corners. Front board is slightly loose. Inside front cover has a penciled portrait. A few of the plates have foxing.. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with stamp gilt illustration, decoration and titles. 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Costumes and remarkable personages in India.--Lectures on India.--A lecture on the condition of women in pagan and Mohammedan countries.--Description of the habits and superstitions of the Thugs; a sect who profess to be divinely authorized to plunder and murder.--Specimens of the Shasters, or sacred books of the Brahmins [with A description of the Shasters, by J.J. Weitbrecht].--Duff, A. Description of two pagan festivals, celebrated annually in Calcutta, at an expense of three millions of dollars.--Curiosities and remarkable customs in pagan and Mohammedan countries, illustrated by anecdotes and numerous engravings.