1801 · London
by [Maurice, Thomas.]
London: for the author by H.L. Galabin, 1801. Second separate edition, 8vo, pp. [4], [17]-460; folding copper-engraved frontispiece of Vishnu, Brahma, and Seva plus 5 other folding copper-plates; contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; very good and sound. Without the 2-leaf Advertisement in the first separate edition of the previous year, and with the pagination gone awry at 2E1. Essentially an offprint from the author's larger work (Indian Antiquities, 7 vols., 1793-1800), but "revised, newly arranged, and divided into chapters." DNB calls Maurice "one of the first to popularize a knowledge of the history and religions of the east."
(Inventory #: 37101)