J. A. Dubois - Mœurs, institutions et cérémonies des peuples de l'Inde - 1921

Dubois (Abbé J. A.); Manners, Institutions and Ceremonies of the Peoples of India. Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, Pondichéry, 1921. 2 volumes, 8vo, of 484 pp. and 538 pp.; full leather binding, with a spine featuring raised bands, title and volume-number panels, ornate gilt tooling, title and volume-number pieces, binding preserved. New edition enriched with a preface and notes. Portrait in the frontispiece. Very good condition, with a small loss of paper at the edge of the title page of volume 1 and on the first page of volume 2. Note the absence of a title page in the second volume (apparently original). Rare edition published in Pondicherry of the great work on India by the missionary and French orientalist Jean Antoine Dubois (1765–1848), “went to India in 1791, he founded the Pettah mission near Seringapatam, acquired a deep knowledge of the language, the manners, the usages of the country and became a member of the Asian Societies of Paris and London.” (Larousse)