Lot No. 1: Lord, Henry (b. 1563)

A Discovery of Two Forreigne Sects in the East-Indies

Medium: Printed Book
Year: 1752
Size: 13 x 8.7 inches
Place: London

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Lord, Henry (b. 1563)

A Discovery of Two Forreigne Sects in the East-Indies

The Sect of Banians, the ancient native of India, and The Sect of the Persees, the Ancient Inhabitants of Persia: Together with the Religion and Manners of each Sect, in two Parts.
London: Lintot and Osborn 1752.

Size:33 x 22.3 cm (13 x 8.7 inches)

Large 4to., pp 42 pages, numbered from 301 to 342, plus title page. In itself complete, this account is from Carreri's work which contained numerous travel narratives, and was titled "A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts. Others Now First Published in English." These are the original pages printed in 1752. Mild foxing, otherwise in very good condition, clean and bright with wide margins, a lovely example of early printing recent half leather binding, title in gilt on spine.

Henry Lord (fl. 1630), traveller, born in Oxfordshire in 1563, matriculated from Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 15 April 1580, but apparently did not graduate. In 1624, on the recommendation of Dean White, whom he had served as curate, he was appointed by the East India Company chaplain to the English factory at Surat for a term of five years. While at Surat he acquired some knowledge of Hindustani and Persian, and studied the customs of the natives. Lord was a chaplain, rather than a missionary, and made a serious attempt to understand the religions rather than condemn them. On his return to England he published this work in 1630.

A fascinating early treatise, Henry Lord's book was the first in English to be entirely devoted to discussion of Indian religions, and represents the first serious attempt to go beyond reports by travellers of the strange religious beliefs and practices that they had observed in India. The display was used as a source by later European writers on Indian religions, most notably Fran?ois Bernier.

"Lord was sometime resident in India at Surat and Preacher to the Honourable Company of Merchants trading to East India (Cox I p.270)."

The work includes one of the earliest known and extensive descriptions of hinduism in a European language.

Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

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Lot No. 1: Lord, Henry (b. 1563)

A Discovery of Two Forreigne Sects in the East-Indies

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Lord, Henry (b. 1563)

A Discovery of Two Forreigne Sects in the East-Indies

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