1801 · London
by Maurice, Thomas
London: printed for the author and sold by John White, 1801. 8vo, 1 volume only of a 7 volume set, but the only volume concerning Stonehenge; pp. [5], viii-xiv, 370, [2]; engraved folding frontispiece, 3 engraved folding plates; burgundy cloth, black leather label; boards faded and rubbed, closed tear to one plate. Includes "A dissertation on the Indian origin of the Druids; and on the striking affinity which the religious rites and ceremonies, anciently practised in the British Islands, bore to those of the Brahmins." And, "Dissertation on the commerce carried on the very remote ages by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Greeks, with the British Islands, for their ancient staple of tin; and on their extensive barter of that commodity for those of the Indian continent."
(Inventory #: 48648)