8vo. xii, 414 pp., + 45 pp., of Longmans catalogue, contemporary cloth, slightly rubbed round edges, blindstamp on few pages, occasional foxing, weak spine, otherwise copy in good condition, from the library of Col. Miles, white ink shelf number on spine, Longmans, Green & Co., London, first edition, 1876.

Synopsis

Robert Durie Osborn (1835-1889) Lieutenant-colonel, serving in India and Afghanistan for twenty five years. ‘Osborn was a serious thinker on both religious and political topics . While in India he was a conscientious student of oriental religions, and spent fourteen years digesting the tangled materials for his two works [the above]. These books are highly valued by serious students. They are models of lucid and graceful treatment of a perplexing subject’. D.N.B.