Ethnographic notes in southern India ... First edition, second issue

by Edgar Thurston

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Madras: reprinted by the superintendent, Government Press, 1907. 8vo, pp. 2 , viii, 580; frontispiece and 39 plates from photographs; original pictorial blue-gray cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; bookplate of the now defunct College of Missions, Indianapolis, with pocket on rear pastedown and accession numbers on spine; all else very good, sound, and clean. Includes sections on marriage, death, omens, deformity, torture, slavery, fire-walking,

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