Auguste BARTH, COLLECTIF
[ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT] Ensemble de 16 fascicules [ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT] Collection of 16 offprints
Imprimerie Nationale • F.H. Schneider|Hanoï [Hanoi] • Paris • London 1896-1904|21.2 x 27.7 cm|16 fascicules reliés en 1
Very rare collection comprising offprints of original editions of articles and reviews first published in the Journal des savants or the Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient.
Bradel binding in green bottle cloth-backed boards, flat spine decorated with a central gilt ornament and double gilt fillet at foot, red morocco title label, marbled paper boards, some original wrappers preserved, modern binding signed Boichot.
Most of the fascicles are by the Indologist Auguste Barth (1834–1916), one of the founders of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, and the originator of Indochinese epigraphy through his studies of Sanskrit inscriptions in Cambodia. He
€1,800