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BIDDULPH, JOHN. Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh. 6 lithographed plates; 3 folding genealogical tables; folding map in front cover pocket. [2], vi, 164; clxix pages. 8vo, 246x152 mm, original cloth, rubbed and shaken, spine ends and cover corners worn through; bookplate removed from front pastedown, contents otherwise clean. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1880
first edition. Yakushi B162.the anthropologist sir james george frazer's copy, with his signature dated Cambridge 1886 and scattered marginalia, generally consisting of bibliographical notes or observations about religious practices. Frazer (1854-1941) drew heavily on ethnographic sources such as this for his monumental study of comparative religion, The Golden Bough.
