Lot 357
Sri Lanka.- Colombo printed.- Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera. Sella Lihini Sandese. The Sella's message, [Colombo], [Printed at the Wesleyan mission Press], 1865.
Estimate: £400 - 600
Description
Sri Lanka.- Colombo printed.- Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera. Sella Lihini Sandese. The Sella's message, edited and translated by William Charles Macready, 2ff. errata at end, occasional spotting, endpapers foxed, later tan wrappers, lightly soiled and stained, 8vo, [Colombo], [Printed at the Wesleyan mission Press] (a slip for the London publishers Williams & Norgate pasted over the original imprint), 1865.
⁂ The author was a 15th century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar, astrologer, and physician. We are told on the title that Macready was a member of the Ceylon Civil Service.
Description
Sri Lanka.- Colombo printed.- Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera. Sella Lihini Sandese. The Sella's message, edited and translated by William Charles Macready, 2ff. errata at end, occasional spotting, endpapers foxed, later tan wrappers, lightly soiled and stained, 8vo, [Colombo], [Printed at the Wesleyan mission Press] (a slip for the London publishers Williams & Norgate pasted over the original imprint), 1865.
⁂ The author was a 15th century Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar, astrologer, and physician. We are told on the title that Macready was a member of the Ceylon Civil Service.