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LELAND, CHARLES P. Capt. Leland's Report of the Horrible Sacrifices of Human Victims among the Various Wild Tribes of India.And also of the Self Sacrifices so prevalent in that Country. Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, repeated on front cover; full-page illustration of human sacrifice on page [13], repeated on rear cover. [4], [9]-36 pages, including portrait. 8vo, 222x140 mm, original wrappers, fragile, covers and contents dog-eared and soiled with foxing and stains throughout. New York [i. e., Albany: Joel Munsell], 1851
first edition of a pamphlet describing events witnessed by Leland during his 1845-48 travels in India. "Lest the reader should begin to suspect me to have been an inactive spectator to such horrid transactions, I consider that I owe it to myself to state, I made every effort of which I was capable, to prevent these cruel murders, but that such efforts were baffled by the phrenzy of the superstition with which they conflicted" (page 15). Bibliotheca Munselliana, page 47; OCLC locates only the AAS and Albany Public Library copies.
