Investigações sobre o caracter da civilisação árya-hindu.
by ABREU, Guilherme de Vasconcellos
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About This Item
Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1878.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30.5 x 21.1 cm.), recent red half sheep over machine marbled board (slight rubbing), gilt lettering on spine and gilt fillets to leather on covers where it borders the paper, top edge rouged, machine marbled endleaves, silk ribbon place marker, original printed wrappers bound in. In fine condition. (1 blank, 3 ll.), 56 pp., (1 blank l.), errata slip. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author describes his own studies in Sanskrit, critiques contemporary scholars, and provides linguistic, religious and ethnographic evidence for the migration of the Aryans and the development of their literature.Born in Coimbra in 1842, Vasconcellos Abreu took a degree in mathematics at Coimbra and was later appointed professor of Vedic languages and Sanskrit in the Curso Superior de Letras. He died in 1907.*** Not in Innocêncio; see Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 175 for other works by this author. Jisc lists copies at Oxford University and British Library. NUC: DLC, DCU-IA, OCl, NSyU, CU, CtY.
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- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- Investigações sobre o caracter da civilisação árya-hindu.
- Author
- ABREU, Guilherme de Vasconcellos
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- FIRST and ONLY EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1878.
- Keywords
- Aryan, Hindu, India, Sanskrit, Vedas
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