Eugène-Vincent-Stanislas JACQUET
[HINDOUISME] Recherches sur la religion des Malabars. Ouvrage extrait d'un manuscrit inédit de la Bibliothèque royale, et publié par E. Jacquet
Arthus Bertrand|Paris s. d. [1835]|30.5 x 33.7 cm|Relié
Very rare first edition of this publication by the young Belgian Orientalist Eugène-Vincent-Stanislas Jacquet (1811-1838), whose career was as swift as it was promising, but tragically cut short by tuberculosis.
Illustrated with a figure at the end of the text.
Only one copy in the CCF (Lyon).
Some minor foxing.
Binding in half black shagreen, smooth spine decorated with cold-stamped garlands and golden fillets, black oasis leather title label, cold-stamped garland on black silk boards, a slightly bumped lower corner, modern binding.
€1,250