Lot No. 8: Maurice, Thomas

The History of Hindostan

Medium: Printed Book
Year: 1795-98
Size: 8.2 x 10.2 inches
Place: London

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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 engravings

First Edition

Year: 1795 to 1798

Size: Size: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8.2 x 10.2 inches)

4to, Vol. I - 577(i) pp, Vol. II - xix, (iii), 705,(iii) pp, Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, recently rebacked

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, Title in gilt on spine.Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, St. James, for The Author and Sold by R. Faulder

Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman

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	Nickname	Amount(Rs)	Type	Date & Time(IST)
1	anon0290	72050.00	Regular	24-04-2024 07:04:50 PM IST
2	anon0290	59400.00	Regular	24-04-2024 12:04:50 PM IST

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Lot No. 8: Maurice, Thomas

The History of Hindostan

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The History of Hindostan

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