An account of the religion, manners, and learning of the people of Malabar in the East-Indies : in several letters written by some of the most learned men of that country to the Danish missionaries / by Mr. Phillips ; with a mapp of the country.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, 1683-1719, author.

Contributor:

Philipps, J. T. (Jenkin Thomas), -1755, translator.

Mears, W. (William), active 1713-1758, bookseller.

Browne, Jonas, -1718, bookseller.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Hinduism--Early works to 1800.

Hinduism.

Malabar Coast (India)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.

Malabar Coast (India).

Penn Provenance:

Linen Hall Library (Belfast, Northern Ireland) (stamp) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[12], 180 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration, 1 map ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

S.t, r.me x-as te*T (3) 1717 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Mears at the Lamb, and J. Brown at the Black-Swan, without Temple-Bar, MDCCXVII [1717]

Language Note:

English translation of an unidentified German work.

Notes:

"In fact by Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, translated from the High-Dutch [i.e. German] by J.T. Philipps."--ESTC.

"A reissue, with cancel title page, of that published in the same year with W. Mears only in the imprint."--ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁶(±[A]1) B-H¹² I⁶.

Title within border of double rules.

Engraved plate (map).

Woodcut illustration, initials, head-pieces and tail-piece.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Charbo's Antiquariaat.

Kislak Center copy has on leaves [A]1 and [A]2 embossed stamp ("LINEN HALL LIBRARY BELFAST") of Linen Hall Library (Belfast, Northern Ireland).

Cited in:

ESTC T160637

OCLC:

518418478