Gustave d' EICHTHAL
Étude sur les origines bouddhiques de la civilisation américaine[Study on the Buddhist Origins of American Civilization]
L. Hachette|Paris 1865|15.2 x 23 cm|Broché
First edition of the first and only published part, illustrated with figures in the text and one plate printed separately as a frontispiece.
This is an offprint from the Revue archéologique.
The sole and uncommon edition of this essay exploring a possible Far Eastern influence on Amerindian civilizations.
Gustave d'Eichthal (1804-1886), a Saint-Simonian, was born into a German Jewish family but converted to Catholicism at the age of thirteen; he notably contributed to the emergence of new social sciences such as ethnology and anthropology.
Unbound copy, a few minor spots of foxing.
At the head of the half-title page, an autograph inscription signed by
€650