Les Civilizations De L‘inde Par Le Dr Gustave Le Bon

Gustave Le Bon, Les Civilizations De L'inde Par Le Dr Gustave Le Bon (The Civilizations of India by Dr Gustave Le Bon), Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot, 1887

743 pages including 7 coloured chromo lithographs (including frontispiece) with tissue guards + 2 black and white maps + 350 engravings and heliogravures. Text in French; Publisher's full Red dyed Shaguran leather bound, elaborate rosette borders tooled in black and gilt to the front and back boards, front board with stylized title and pictorial temple pillar motif stamped in gilt and black, spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers printed in gilt and black, all edges gilt.
11 x 8.25 x 2 in (28.4 x 21 x 5.5 cm)

The most stunning aspect of the book is its remarkable binding.

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 his journeys culminated in the publication of this book based on Le Bon’s photographs, watercolour paintings, and documents. The book is divided into six substantial sections, and provides in-depth studies of the subcontinent’s climate, topography, inhabitants, monuments, science, art, literature, and languages. In this book Gustave Le bon applauded Indian architecture, art and religion.

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