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TITLE: Les Civilizations de L???inde
AUTHOR: Gustave Le Bon
PUBLISHER: Librairie De Firmin Didot
PLACE: Paris
YEAR: 1887
NO.OF PAGES: 743 Pages, 7 coloured chromo lithographs + 2 black and white maps + 350 engravings and heliogravures . Text in French.
BINDING: Red dyed Shaguran leather bound with wide gilt border on upper board showing temple pillar and spine, all edges gilt
SIZE: 28.4 x 21 x 5.5 cm
Gustave Le bon (7 May 1841 - 13 December 1931) was a French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention. In 1884, he was commissioned by the French government to travel around Asia and report on the civilisations there. The results of hisjourneys were a number of books. He published Les Civilisations de l'Inde (1887), in which he
applauded Indian architecture, art and religion.
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