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Henry Lord
A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians



HENRY LORD, A Discoverie of the Sect of the Banians: Containing Their History, Law, Liturgie, Casts, Customes, and Ceremonies. Gathered from Their Bramanes, Teachers of that Sect: As the Particulars were Comprized in the Booke of their Law, called the Shaster: Together with a Display of their Manners, Both in Times Past, and at this Present, London: F Constable, 1630

Frontispiece; title pages; 14; 53 pages
2 parts in 1, first edition, additional engraved pictorial title by William Marshall, the second part with the separate title 'The Religion of the Parsees'.
Original leather bound with fresh spine along with contemporary slipcase
18.5 x 14 x 1.5 cm

Early work on two religious groups of India, the Hindu Bania (merchant caste) and the Zoroastrian Parsees, by Henry Lord who was the chaplain to the East India Company at Surat in Gujarat from 1624 to 1629.

The second part of the book explores the Parsi community and is one of the first accounts by the East India Company to do so when they first arrived ay Surat, India in 1608.







  Lot 41 of 101  

ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS AUCTION
15-16 JANUARY 2020
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Rs 2,40,000
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