Wheeler, J. Talboys. The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century Before Christ (2 volume set). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. [12415]
Two volumes in red cloth decorated in black and gilt, bindings are very good and clean, small worming in the rear joint of vol. ii., 8 x 5 1/4 inches. Both volumes lack the first front free end paper, and have a 1978 ink owner's inscription on the front paste-down, with an ink name stamp beneath. Vol. I. with a folding map of the ancient world, 445 clean pp. Vol. II. has 466 clean pp. and an index to the set. Very good. Hardcover.
Title continues: An Imaginary Biography founded on Fact, illustrative of the History, Manners, Religion, Literature, Arts, and Social Condition of the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, Babylonians, Hebrews, Scythians, and other Ancient Nations, in the Days of Pericles and Nehemiah.
"The present work is an attempt to give in a popular form a complete survey of the principal nations of the ancient world, as they were in the days of Pericles and Nehemiah. With this in view, the author has written an imaginary biography of Herodotus, the Greek historian and geographer, who flourished in the fifth century before Christ; and, by describing his supposed travels to the most famous cities and countries of antiquity, he has been enabled to review their several histories, narrate their national traditions, describe the appearance of each people, point out their peculiarities and manners, and develop the various religious views and ideas which belong to their several mythologies." - Preface.
James Talboys Wheeler (1824-1897), English historian, Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy in the Madras presidency college. In 1860 he was appointed by the Madras government to investigate the old English government records of India, a task which resulted in scholarly reports on India, Afghanistan, Persia, and Turkestan. He produced valuable researches on the New Testament, Herodotus, India, and the ancient world, publishing some sixteen scholarly titles on those subjects.
