Indian Antiquities: or Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, The Pure System of Primeval Theology, The Grand Code of Civil Laws, The Original Form of Government, The Widely Extended Commerce, and The Various and Profound Literature, of Hindostan. Compared, Throughout, With The Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, The Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale.

Indian Antiquities: or Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, The Pure System of Primeval Theology, The Grand Code of Civil Laws, The Original Form of Government, The Widely Extended Commerce, and The Various and Profound Literature, of Hindostan. Compared, Throughout, With The Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, The Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale.

Author: Maurice, Thomas

8vo. 1796-1806. 7 volumes. Maurice, Thomas. London: H.L Galabin / R. Richardson. Rebacked in handsome brown goatskin with original marbled boards and leather corners. Spine with five gilt bordered raised bands, gilt author/title to the second compartment, gilt vol# to fourth, gilt "1801" to foot. All other compartments gilt bordered with heavy gilt floral device centered to each. Original corners and marbled boards rubbed. Fore-edge of several plates with closed tears, some affecting image. Overall, a stunning set of important books.

From Wiki: Thomas Maurice (1754 – 30 March 1824) was a British oriental scholar and historian. The son of a schoolmaster, Maurice was educated at the Wesleyan seminary at Bristol before entering University College, Oxford in 1774, aged 19 (B.A. 1778, M.A. 1808); he was chaplain to the 87th regiment (about 1784), Vicar of Wormleighton, Warwickshire (1798–1824) and Cudham, Kent (1804–24). Maurice was a noted oriental scholar and historian, and assistant-keeper of MSS at the British Museum (1798–24). His turn for historical studies had been fostered at University College by his distinguished tutor Lord Stowell, and he now began to concentrate his attention on the history of India, for treating upon which he made proposals in 1790 in a published letter addressed to the East India directors. The irreligious spirit of the French Revolution, alarming Maurice's mind, induced him to remodel his first work after it was nearly completed, and to devote a considerable proportion of it to dissertations on the Hindu mythology. In 1791 he came before the public with two volumes of his Indian Antiquities: the rest were brought out at intervals, the completion of the work being mainly owing to the liberality of the earl of Harborough; and the seventh and last volume appeared in 1797. This work remains to our day a trustworthy book of reference. Meantime he had undertaken a History of Hindostan, the three volumes of which, in quarto, were published in 1795, 1798, 1799, and a second edition appeared in 1821.

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