Nala, épisode du Mahâbhârata, traduit du sanskrit en français par Emile Burnouf

First edition of the French translation of the story of Nala and Damayanti, from the Aranyakaparvan, or Book of the Forest, the third of the eighteen books of the great Indian epic.

Spine restored and reattached, a few spots of foxing.

 Emile-Louis Burnouf (1821-1907), first cousin of Eugène Burnouf, was likewise a Sanskrit scholar and Indologist.