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Pantheon of Hindu Gods with over 100 plates
Pantheon of Hindu Gods with over 100 plates
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Description
Heading: (Hindu Mythology)
Author: Moor, Edward
Title: The Hindu Pantheon
Place Published: London
Publisher:J. Johnson
Date Published: 1810
Description:

[iii]-xiv, [2], 467 pp. With 80 (of 105) engraved plates. (4to) 28.8x21.5 cm (11¼x8½"), period quarter calf & boards. First Edition. [Accompanied by] Complete set of the 105 plates, including the frontispiece, with the printed title page. 30.5x23.3 cm (12x9¼"), leather tooled in gilt.

The first work of its kind in English, intended as an instruction to Hinduism for an English audience. Edward Moor was an early European scholar of Indian religion, and the work was illustrated with examples from Moor's own collection of Hindu artifacts, which are currently displayed in the British Museum. The present lot comprises the book with an incomplete set of plates, together with a separate volume with the complete complement of the plates - these have library rubberstamps on the versos, but image sides unblemished.

Condition
Bindings worn, broken; book with title page darkened, lacking half title as well as frontispiece; internally in good condition, worthy of restoration, sold with all faults.
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Pantheon of Hindu Gods with over 100 plates

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