Lectures on India, Also Descriptions of Remarkable Customs and Personages in Other Pagan and Mohammedan Countries

First edition. Tall octavo. Decorative title, followed by nine lectures on Indian subjects with there own titlepages and paginated separately. Illustrations. . 32, 30, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32pp. Publisher's brown cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Some puckering to the cloth, no free endpapers, possibly as bound, very good. Titles include: "Costumes and Remarkable Personages in India", "Lectures On India I", "Lectures on India II"; "A Lecture on the Condition Of Women in Pagan and Mohammedan Countries" "Curiosities and Remarkable Customs"; "Description of the Habits and Superstitions of the Thugs, A Sect Who Profess to be Divinely Authorized to Plunder and Murder", "Specimens of The Shasters, or Sacred Books Of The Brahmins", "Descriptions of Two Pagan Festivals, Celebrated Annually in Calcutta, at an Expense of Three Millions Of Dollars"; "Superstitions of The Ashantees especially Those Which Lead Them To Sacrifice, on certain occasions, Thousands Of Human Victims" (Africa).