Original-linen with Cover. Cover a little bit damaged and dirt. Pages with pencil underlines. Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was an Anglo-German Orientalist and comparative philologist. He was a theologian who also wrote and translated books about the religions and sacred texts of the Far East, such as Buddhism and Confucianism. In 1898 he received the high honour of being made a Privy Councillor.