The Migration of Symbols.
Language: English
Published by [London] Westminster; Archibald Constable and Co; Publishers to the India Office. 1894.
- Hardcover
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Seller: Roger J Treglown, ABA., MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA, United KingdomRoger J Treglown, ABA.
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Condition: Used - Very good
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First English edition. Format, octavo, 238mm. Physical description, [7] vii-xxiii,[5], [1] 2-277 [3]. With a half title. Plates, VI including a frontispiece, plus 164 illustrations in the text.Contents clean and bright. Fine ribbed green cloth over boards, the upper cover with the footprints of the Buddha in gilt, the spine lettered in gilt, very very slightly sunned. Dark green endpapers. Published at the Chiswick Press. Overall, a very good copy of a book not often seen for sale. First published in Paris in 1892. George Birdwood conributes a lengthy Introduction, followed by a nine page Preface by the Author. Birdwood in his Introduction noes - ' [the book] sets forth on a more sysematic plan, and with fuller references to original authorities and illustrations from authentic examples, the matured and permanent results of the larned and accomplished author's examination of the engmatic subject of which he is now everywhere recognizes as the greatest exponent.' This book is accepted as one of the building blocks of religious archaelogy. Eugène Félicien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella ( 1846 – 1925) was a lawyer, liberal senator of Belgium and a Professor of the history of religions and rector of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Migration of Symbols.
- Author
- D'ALVIELLA, The Count Goblet.
- Publisher
- [London] Westminster; Archibald Constable and Co; Publishers to the India Office. 1894.
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Roger J Treglown, ABA.
MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA, United Kingdom
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