[Lord, Henry (b. 1563)]

Estimate

700 - 900 GBP

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Description

A Display of two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies viz: The Sect of the Banians, the ancient natives of India and the Sect of the Persees, the ancient inhabitants of Persia, together with the Religion and Maners of each Sect. London: T. and R. Cotes, for Fra. Constable, 1630

2 parts in one volume, small 4to (174 x 124mm.), [16], 95, [1 (blank)], [12], 53, [1 (blank)] pp., 2 divisional titles (the first reading: "A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians", the second: "The Religion of the Persees"), illustration: engraved general title (with text above), binding: eighteenth-century polished calf, spine in compartments gilt, lacking final blank (Y4), title slightly soiled, engraved title cut to plate mark and mounted, slight spotting

Literature

STC 16825; cf. Wilson p.130

Catalogue Note

first edition. this work includes one of the earliest known and extensive descriptions of hinduism in a european language.

Henry Lord was appointed chaplain to the East India Company in Surat in 1624, where he remained until 1629. While at Surat he acquired some knowledge of Hindustani and Persian, and studied the customs of the natives.