Comparison of the hindu and theban hercules, illustrated by an ancient hindu intaglio.
London.
Printed by J. L. Cox, 1831.
First offprint edition.
Quarto.
[2], 23pp, [1]. With an engraved vignette to head of p.[1]. Uncut and unopened in original publisher's powder blue wrappers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp.
The second located copy of an essay, initially published in the third volume of the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, examining the analogy in costume and attributes of Grecian and Hindu depictions of Hercules as evidenced by a portrayal of the figure in an ancient intaglio.
James Tod (1782-1835), East India Company army officer and Oriental scholar. Tod, sometime librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society, published widely on the history and archaeology of India, most notably: Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (1829-32); and, according to his obituary in the Asiatic Journal (1835) 'to him, also, belongs the praise of having initiated the study of Indo-Grecian antiquities'.
Not in COPAC; OCLC records a single copy (BNF).
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 32614
James Tod (1782-1835), East India Company army officer and Oriental scholar. Tod, sometime librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society, published widely on the history and archaeology of India, most notably: Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (1829-32); and, according to his obituary in the Asiatic Journal (1835) 'to him, also, belongs the praise of having initiated the study of Indo-Grecian antiquities'.
Not in COPAC; OCLC records a single copy (BNF).
