On the religious establishments of méwar.
London.
Printed by J. L. Cox, 1829.
First edition.
Quarto.
57pp, [1]. Uncut and unopened in later light blue wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp.
A rare survival of an essay, initially published in the second volume of the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, on the ecclesiastical history and customs of Rajasthan.
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 copies at just seven locations (BSB, Cornell, LoC, Minnesota, NYPL, Strasbourg and Yale).
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 32615
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 copies at just seven locations (BSB, Cornell, LoC, Minnesota, NYPL, Strasbourg and Yale).
