New materials for the history of man
Subtitle: derived from a comparison of the calendars and festivals of nations
By: by R.G. Haliburton
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Halifax, N.S
Language: eng
Notes: "Printed privately."

No. 1: iv, v, 104 p.; no. 2: iv, 13 p.

Reference: TPL 6056.

"From the Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Science."--No. 1, p. [1].

"The paper on the festival of the dead was prepared for the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, and was substituted for one, which being rather intended as an amusing sketch of the universality of some trivial superstitions, was regarded by me as hardly adapted for publication by a scientific society."--Introd., p. iii (2nd group), cf. TPL 6057.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: No. 1. The festival of the dead; title: No. 2. Astronomical features in the mosaic cosmogony.