LA PORTE OUVERTE, POUR PARVENIR A LA CONNOISSANCE DU PAGANISME CACHE.
OU LA VRAYE REPRESENTATION DE LA VIE, DES MOEURS, DE LA RELIGION, & DU SERVICE DIVIN DES BRAMINES, QUI DEMEURENT SUR LES COSTES DE CHORMANDEL, & AUX PAYS CIRCONVOISINS [...]. EN...

by ROGERIUS, Abraham

Amsterdam; 1670

- First French edition by the doctor, grammarian and linguist Th. Lagrue (1620-1680) of a work on religious ceremonies and cult of witchcraft in India.

Size 7 by 9"

 [16 incl. engraved title]-371-[4] pp.; 1 pl. (engraved title placed in front of page 1)

Illustrated with a frontispiece, 1 folding plate, 3 full-page and 2 in-text illustrations.

Full vellum, minor soiling, very good interior except faded dampstain in the upper corner of few pages

Manuscript title to the spine


The Dutch clergyman Roger worked from 1633 as a chaplain among the Tamil people in Pulicat, the capital of Dutch Coromandel.
He studied the Hindu beliefs and more particularly those of the Brahmins, belonging to the social class of the Varna composed of priests and spiritual teachers.


- Ref. Caillet 9560. - Dorbon 4208. - STCN. - Prov. Dr R. Germain (mod. bookpl.).

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