M. Court De Gebelin - Monde primitif, analyse et comparé avec le monde moderne - 1774

Beautiful edition of this vast erudite synthesis aimed at demonstrating the original unity of human civilizations through the comparative study of languages, mythologies, symbols, and institutions.

Gébelin draws on Greek, Egyptian, Hebrew, Celtic, and Eastern sources to establish correspondences between religious systems, alphabets, rites, and traditions, while asserting that language and symbols are the vectors of a forgotten universal wisdom.

The work combines philological erudition, mystical speculation, and philosophical ambition, and foreshadows research in comparative mythology, historical linguistics, and symbolism.

He had a notable influence on masonic circles, learned societies, and spiritualist thinkers of the 18th century, proposing a unifying vision of human history based on the search for the common origins of thought and culture.

M. Court De Gebelin - Primitive World, analysis and comparison with the modern world - 1774 - Boudet, Valleyre the Elder, Veuve Duchesne, Saugrain, Ruault - 633 Pages

Good condition of the binding, book in its original full brown leather, showing signs of use, rubbed corners, partially cracked hinges, missing headcaps, decorated spine with gold tooling, gilded title on a maroquin piece, double gold fillets framing the covers.

Good interior condition, browning, work adorned with a few engravings outside the main text, including a frontispiece.

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