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Set an alertFirst edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Journal asiatique.
Unlettered spine with restorations; scattered foxing.
Abel Bergaigne (1838–1888), one of the leading Indologists of his time, was Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Linguistics at the Sorbonne.
His interpretation of the Rig-Veda remains authoritative.
On the upper wrapper of the first cover, a signed autograph inscription by Abel Bergaigne to the academic and statesman Charles Lenient (1826–1908).