MAURICE, THOMAS
THE HISTORY OF HINDOSTAN ITS ARTS, AND ITS SCIENCES
AS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OTHER GREAT EMPIRES OF ASIA, DURING THE MOST ANCIENT PERIODS OF THE WORLD, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATED ENGRAVINGSYear: 1820
Size: 26 x 21 cm (10.3 x 8.3 inches).
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Second edition, 4to, Vol. I - 522 pp, Vol. II - xx, 303 pp
No. of Illustrations: 16 Copper Engraved Plates.
Later full leather over textured cloth, marbled end papers, Title in gilt on spine. Age browning to beginning and and end of the volumes.
Thomas Maurice (1754-1824) published numerous works on the religion of India. After he had completed his extensive 'Indian Antiquities' he traced Indian history back to its classical origins. Volume I mainly gives ancient astronomical details from the Hindoo, Hebraic, Phoenician, Egyptian and Greek systems, covering the period between the creation and the flood. Volume II contains the Sanskrit and classical history of India. The imaginative curious plates are showing the Indian Deities (incarnations of Veeshnu, Creeshna etc.) but also the ancient zodiac from Egypt, oriental zodiac, the 28 Hindoo lunar mansions. The plates are mainly facsimiles of the mythological designs and as Maurice says in his advertisement 'Absurd as some of them may appear to an European eye, it appeared still more absurd attempt to make any alterations in them'.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
About Artist
Thomas Maurice (1754 - 1824)
Maurice, an English divine and scholar, noted particularly for his studies of the antiquities of India, was born about 1755 at Hertford. His turn for historical studies had been fostered at University College by his distinguished tutor Lord…...Read More
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