Item #308784 Étude sur les Origines Bouddhiques de la Civilisation Américaine. Premiere Partie. M. Gustave D'EICHTHAL.

Étude sur les Origines Bouddhiques de la Civilisation Américaine. Premiere Partie.

Paris: Aux Bureaux de la Revue Archeologique / Hatchette et Co., 1865. First Separate Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 86 pp, frontispiece plate, line drawings in the text. Offprint article from the Revue Archeologique, with the later label of Maisonneuve et Cie, Libraires. on front wrapper. Disbound from a larger volume of pamphlets, stab marks along spine edge. Very good clean copy. Item #308784

¶ On Chinese settlement of the Americas and the distribution of Bhuddist imagery in the Americas. The supplement (pp 81-86) prints D'Eichthal's response to several observations made by Vivien de Saint-Martin in his memoire of de Guines 'Recherches sur les Navigations des Chinois du Cote de l'Amerique...' (1761).

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