A View Of The History, Literature, And Religion Of The Hindoos: Including A Minute Description Of Their Manners And Customs, And Translations From Their Principal Works…Third Edition, Carefully Abridged And Greatly Improved
de WARD, William [1769-1823]
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London: Printed, by Order of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, for Black, Parbury, And Allen, Booksellers To The Hon. East India Company, By W.H.Pearce, Birmingham [imprint varies slightly], 1817-20., 1817. 4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xiii, cvii, 288; vii, 344; lv, xxvi, 354; 1 p.l., [v]-ix, [1 leaf]errata, xlviii, 505. with half-title in Vol. III only. contemporary sprinkled calf (Vol. IV headpiece chipped, joints cracked, corners worn, a few gatherings in Vol. I foxed). The author was a Baptist missionary in India for many years, dying of cholera at Serampore in 1823. A printer by trade, his primary task from his arrival in 1799 until 1818 was superintending the Baptist missionary press in Bengal, by means of which the scriptures, translated into Bengali, Mahratta, Tamil, and twenty-three other languages, were disseminated throughout India. From 1818 to 1821 he travelled in Great Britain, Germany and the United States to raise funds for the Baptist college at Serampore. The present authoritative work was first published at Serampore in 1811..
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- A View Of The History, Literature, And Religion Of The Hindoos: Including A Minute Description Of Their Manners And Customs, And Translations From Their Principal Works…Third Edition, Carefully Abridged And Greatly Improved
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- London: Printed, by Order of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, for Black, Parbury, And Allen, Booksellers To The
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