SHRINES & SEPULCHRES...OLD & NEW WORLD...Funeral Customs... [First Edn.]

by Madden, Richard R

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London:: T.C. Newby,, 1851.. EX-LIBRARY; both vols. rebound; few minor dog-ears; library blindstamp in each vol.; several pp. discolored by old news clippings; otherwise contents clean, condition good.. + index. Illustrated with 7 full-page b&w lithographs. Each volume has a pictorial title page. Madden (1798-1886), surgeon, traveller. ||| As British government official he opposed slavery, championed causes of Irish peasants & Australian aborigines. ||| These volumes of tombs & `Funeral customs of the Principal Nations Ancient & Modern' cover--American Indian burial mounds; Egyptian pyramids; Nineveh, Babylon, Persopolis; Alexander's tomb; `Hindoos'; Cingalese; Troy; Sardinia; Etruria; North Africans; Greeks; Scandinavians; Romans; Pompeiians; Mexicans; the catacombs; shrines at Mecca & Medina; French; Italian; Spanish; Portuguese; Roman Catholic countries; Stonehenge; etc. ||| Remarkable gathering of sites, beliefs, & customs.