The Sundhya or the daily prayers of the Brahmins.

The rites and rituals of the Brahmin. Mrs Belnos' scarce book on the rites and rituals of the Brahmin.

'Relatively little is known about Mrs. Belnos. Her husband, Jean-Jacques Belnos, was a French miniaturist and lithographer, who had travelled to India in 1807, and established a practice in Calcutta as a painter of miniatures and portraits of the British, a business which his widow seems to have continued following his death' (De Silva, Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c.1785-1845, pp. 106-7). Abbey speculates that Mrs Belnos was Indian, but she was in fact almost certainly the daughter of William Moore, assistant surgeon in the Bengal army. This seems to be her second and last published work, following Twenty-four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal, which appeared in 1832.

First edition; large folio (56.5 x 38 cm.), lithographed title with hand-coloured vignette, and 24 hand-coloured plates, occasional light marginal soiling, modern half faux leather gilt, slipcase, a very good copy.

Abbey (Travel), 477; Bobins 791; Lipperheide 1499.